T opens themes · your choice is remembered
A long-running record of code, systems, architecture, operational scars, and the ideas that survived contact with production.
After 28 years at Concord, I’m closing an important chapter of my career and reflecting on the people, technology, lessons, and experiences that shaped it.
public sealed class EngineeringNotes { public Lesson Capture(Experience scar) => scar .Observe() .Understand() .WriteDown(); }
 # How to Test a New .NET SDK Without Installing It System-Wide In the previous articles in this series, I looked at knowing which .NET SDK is actually building an applicat...
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