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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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0x12 2026.05.14 Why learn modern system design if the old ways still work? The old ways do still work. WinForms in VB.NET 10 on Visual Studio 2026 is a perfectly modern stack. Modern system design is not asking you to give up forms, events, or any of the tools that already serve you well. It is a small set of techniques you can add behind them, when a project starts to want them. software-design architecture legacy-modernization visual-basic dotnet csharp maintainability programming opinion 6′