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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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0x10 2026.05.12 Frugal again - rules for writing code that respects the machine The hardware curve has flattened. The papering-over is ending. Here are the rules for writing code that respects the machine it actually runs on, with .NET specifics. dotnet performance opinion csharp vbnet 14′ 0x0F 2026.05.05 The end of free hardware Dennard scaling broke twenty years ago. The transistor density curve still has runway. The bill nobody warned us about is the complexity tax, and it is coming due. hardware cpu performance opinion dotnet 9′