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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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0x08 2026.04.29 The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse YouTube has tens of thousands of talented creators making careful, deep, useful videos. The home feed will not show them to you. There is no browse. Only a funnel, built from your laziest clicks and tuned to keep you watching, not to surface what's worth watching. A rant from inside the trap, and a sketch of the tool I'm building to climb out of it. youtube social-media algorithms recommender-systems attention-economy indie-web discovery opinion technology-criticism 6′