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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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2026.05.23
What's new this week: The calm before Build
Build 2026 is ten days out, and this edition is the calm before. VS 2026 18.6.1 patches a hard ARM64 debugger blocker, System.ClientModel 1.13.0 ships breaking credential changes, GitHub Copilot pushes a pre-cutover changelog flurry, and the Musk v. Altman verdict closes a story two editions in the making.
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2026.05.16
What's new this week: Avalonia, .NET, Visual Basic, and the Microsoft choices that hit developers
A weekly look at what shipped, what shifted, and what Microsoft decided this week in the corner of the ecosystem I actually work in: Avalonia for cross-platform UI, .NET 10 in production, Visual Basic still refusing to die, and whatever decision out of Redmond is going to land on a working developer's desk on Monday.
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2026.05.02
What's new this week: Avalonia, .NET, Visual Basic, and the Microsoft choices that hit developers
A weekly look at what shipped, what shifted, and what Microsoft decided this week in the corner of the ecosystem I actually work in: Avalonia for cross-platform UI, .NET 10 in production, Visual Basic still refusing to die, and whatever decision out of Redmond is going to land on a working developer's desk on Monday.
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