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May 5, 2026 · 6 min

Why we still build native Windows software in 2026

Web apps, Electron, web apps in Electron — and the case for shipping a real .exe to people who use Windows for a living.

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Apr 22, 2026 · 5 min

csh on Windows: a thirty-year-old shell deserves a comeback

How we ported the C shell to native Win32, what we learned about the Windows process model, and why we shipped 134 man pages.

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Apr 8, 2026 · 7 min

Notes from a .NET Framework to .NET 8 migration

What broke, what didn’t, and why we now run every migration behind a feature flag — even when the spec says we don’t need to.

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