Update incoming
It s been a few months since my last update. I m very excited about something in the tooling space that I think will really benefit us all. And I want to turn the crank on other things like OpenVB.NET. All good Continue reading
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The Agenda – A Visual Guide
I've long struggled to quickly communicate the scale of my vision for ModVB. It's not 1 feature or 5 features but a vision of future VB which respects its own uniqueness and dials its style up to 11. This 59-page post attempts to give a feel for the project using mostly code samples and minimal prose. This summarizes the compiler/language stuff. IDE/tooling is saved for later. Continue reading
This Feature Intentionally Left Blank
A few posts ago I put out a bullet outline of the lengthy agenda for ModVB. I intentionally didn t do much editing to it since the point was to be more comfortable publishing things before they re in a final, marketing-approved Continue reading
Draft: Open VB.NET
I ve created a new OpenVBdotnet organization on GitHub. At the moment it is a place for starting some very important conversations within our community conversations that are bigger than a personal blog and its comments section. I can present options to Continue reading
Draft: My Mind is an Adirected Dicyclic Graph (ADG) that I am Failing to Serialize
Yes, I made up that term as a backronym to match my initials. I ve been trying to write a blog post mostly about GitHub organizations but I got preoccupied trying to describe why I was struggling to write that post Continue reading
Draft: Shutting Down My Patreon
This is a draft so I don t have to feel bad if it s not perfect. This isn t a bad thing! I originally started this blog with the idea of creating a place for VB community, but I didn t have enough Continue reading
Draft: The initial ModVB backlog outline
Like 2 years ago I said I ve got like 11 pages of just bullet points of stuff to do for the ModVB and I tried to publish more polished detailed writeups of each to help folks see the vision but Continue reading
Draft: Trying to decouple some stuff
This post is a work in progress. Maybe all my posts are works in progress. As a human being I certainly am a work in progress. When I was a junior in high school I remember my friends and I Continue reading
How I Survived My Fortieth Birthday
OR On psychological flexibility In this post I ll talk about my mental health. VB/Tech talk will be back after. Last month I turned 41 but what I want to talk about is last year. You ve probably noticed that I haven t Continue reading
I’m alive
Things are better. Long story. Talking is harder. Mostly psychological. Just writing this to kinda break the ice. Anxiety. Meds. -ADG