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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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· Jun 2026
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2026.06.16
Thermalith: an open-source desktop label designer for NIIMBOT printers
I went quiet on the blog for a month because I was building this. Thermalith is an open-source desktop label designer and driver for NIIMBOT thermal printers: local-first, no account, no cloud, prints over USB or Bluetooth. Cross-platform on .NET 10 and Avalonia, with the reverse-engineered printer protocol pulled out into its own reusable GPL library.
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2026.06.16
Built in private, released in public: self-hosted GitLab to GitHub
The workshop is a self-hosted GitLab I own and run. The shop window is GitHub. Development happens in private with no metered CI bill and full control of the runners; when a release is ready, one GitLab CI job mirrors the source to GitHub and cuts a release with the built binaries. Here's the actual pipeline that does it, gotchas included.
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2026.06.16
A coffee button, and a home for the projects
Two reader-facing additions to the site this week. There is now a Donate page with Ko-fi and Interac e-Transfer, and a Projects section where each thing I build gets a real writeup instead of a line on a GitHub profile. Neither is clever. Both are things I kept meaning to do and finally did.
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