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Writing asynchronous code is hard, even when we have amazing tools such as Reactive Programming to help us. What if we could write synchronous code and have it work asynchronously?

Uno advertises itself as a framework used to “Build native apps for Mobile and Web using XAML and C#”.

I love the smell of integrals in the morning

Conveniently, they sell something for that.

Oh, emoji support. Finally!

When asked to comment he dove into a swimming pool filled with doubloons

That's OK. Six months ago I wasn't doing anything criminal. They can't read the ones from seven months ago, though. Right?

Frequently XL or larger (at least 'round these parts)

Because one of your hashes should not equal the others

And what if I like "half-spaces, half-tabs"?

Play, "Louie, Louie" into it and watch it explode

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

Are they also "Scratch & Sniff"?

I guess this means I should look at my To-do list? Hmph.

"She's a model and she's looking good"

When they tell you to, "get lost", they mean it

They should have primed the servers?

"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying."

No legs?

What, no love for embedding MS Paint images?

"The activity of 'debugging', or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed."

Brutalist Web Design is honest about what a website is and what it isn't. A website is not a magazine, though it might have magazine-like articles. A website is not an application, although you might use it to purchase products or interact with other people. A website is not a database, although it might be driven by one.

What can a site do to you, or to your device, without your explicit consent? What happens when you visit a slightly "improper" site, or a "proper" site you visited includes some third-party script that hasn’t been thoroughly checked?