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EvilGeniusLabs — a personal lab for C# / .NET / Avalonia, Rust, retro-gaming experiments, and the kind of code that shouldn't work but does.
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2026 27
- Two disciplines of code, and why AI splits them
- I set a pace I couldn't keep
- Thermalith: an open-source desktop label designer for NIIMBOT printers
- Built in private, released in public: self-hosted GitLab to GitHub
- A coffee button, and a home for the projects
- What's new this week: The calm before Build
- VB on Avalonia: the VB6 form-and-handler model, cross-compiled to Linux from Visual Studio 2026
- Is MAUI another Silverlight? A retrospective on every Microsoft UI framework, and why developers are tired
- What's new this week: Avalonia, .NET, Visual Basic, and the Microsoft choices that hit developers
- Why learn modern system design if the old ways still work?
- Frugal again - rules for writing code that respects the machine
- I added an apple-touch-icon by reading my own access logs
- The end of free hardware
- I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
- What's new this week: Avalonia, .NET, Visual Basic, and the Microsoft choices that hit developers
- Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language.
- What did you love about VB6, and what frustrates you about modern .NET?
- The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse
- From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control, lived from inside
- I use Claude Code, and here is how
- Mea culpa, I shipped a draft-book feature that hid every chapter inside it
- Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987
- Turning an SBC's OTG port into a real USB keyboard — and the three traps that ate days of mine
- Windows 11 won't let you mix wallpaper types across virtual desktops — and the fix is one PNG
- Site Update - Addressed "Cancer" fonts
- Building EvilGeniusLabs.ca: from mockup to production in a week
- Smoke Test — First Post from Production