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Field notes from 35+ years in the trenches. Mostly C# / .NET / Avalonia, some Rust, rants about OOP, retro emulation, and whatever weird thing has me up at 2am.

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0x1B 2026.10.01 Two disciplines of code, and why AI splits them Some developers write code to build applications. Others write code to master the craft of the language itself. AI looks like a gift to the first group and a threat to the second, and neither side is wrong. A senior developer's take on why there's room for both, and why the people who understand how applications are built aren't going anywhere. ai careers software-development opinion evilgeniuslabs 7′