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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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0x17 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. aspnet-core dotnet evilgeniuslabs meta site-update 3′ 0x11 2026.05.07 I added an apple-touch-icon by reading my own access logs Stood up GoAccess on the production logs this morning. Noticed iOS clients 404'ing on /apple-touch-icon.png within minutes. Resized the admin avatar with PowerShell and System.Drawing, dropped the result at wwwroot/apple-touch-icon.png, deployed. Thirty minutes from 'huh, that's a lot of 404s' to live. The story is the loop, not the icon. aspnet-core dotnet devops sysadmin goaccess logs observability ios evilgeniuslabs narrative 2′