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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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0x18 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. gitlab github ci-cd devops dotnet self-hosting release-engineering evilgeniuslabs 6′ 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′