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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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0x03 2026.04.24 Site Update - Addressed "Cancer" fonts One of the testers said the fonts look like cancer... Site Fonts Readability 0′ 0x02 2026.04.24 Building EvilGeniusLabs.ca: from mockup to production in a week Five days from domain purchase to a live site with blog, wiki, books, authenticated comments, container registry, and CI. The stack choices, the design mockup, the milestone-driven plan, and an honest accounting of how I used AI as a pair programmer to ship it. meta build-log dotnet razor-pages ai-assisted 10′ 0x01 2026.04.23 Smoke Test — First Post from Production Verifying the production stack: CI pipeline, container registry, proxy, and database all the way down to the markdown renderer. meta infrastructure test 3′