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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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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′