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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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2026.04.27
I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
Starting a long-form history of Visual Basic on EvilGeniusLabs.ca. Chapter 1 covers the BASIC dynasty Microsoft had been running since 1975, the California developer Microsoft bought to put a face on it, and the launch pitch Bill Gates seeded in BYTE Magazine eighteen months before VB shipped. Six articles, focused on the parts of the story that don't get covered.
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2026.04.27
Mea culpa, I shipped a draft-book feature that hid every chapter inside it
M12 said draft books are public works-in-progress. I updated the book-level visibility filter and called it done. The article-level filter, which lived in seven other queries, was a separate code path. Anonymous visitors saw the book, saw the chapters, and every chapter rendered 'no published articles'. Here's what I missed and the fix.
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