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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
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The two roads forward, VB/Windows and VB/DOS (1991–1992)
A History of Visual Basic
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Origins (1964–1992)
The propaganda, Microsoft pitches the future of programming (1989–1991)
A History of Visual Basic
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Origins (1964–1992)
Project Thunder, Ruby meets Embedded Basic (1989–1991)
A History of Visual Basic
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Origins (1964–1992)
Alan Cooper and Tripod (1985–1988)
A History of Visual Basic
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Origins (1964–1992)
Gates, Allen, and the Microsoft BASIC dynasty (1975–1991)
A History of Visual Basic
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Origins (1964–1992)
The birth of BASIC, and the decade before Microsoft (1964–1975)
A History of Visual Basic
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Origins (1964–1992)
The Five Roads Into Programming
The Engineer’s Mind: Logic, Systems, and Programming
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Foundational Understanding in Modern Programming
Foundational Understanding and Its Decline in Modern Programming Education
The Engineer’s Mind: Logic, Systems, and Programming
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Foundational Understanding in Modern Programming