Someone came up to me after the presentation and said: "Those pictures of the kids weren't just any kids, right?" I responded, "You caught that, did you?" He confirmed and told me he was whispering that "those aren't just any kids" to his friend during the presentation.

VCFSW 2025 WAS AWESOME! The video of my presentation has been posted... youtu.be/F7Nm7nLjtAk?si=yCWU…

youtu.be/7V6nucKFK88?si=M7wG… YES... YES... YES... YES... and YES!!!! As a father of two young girls who are directly impacted by the current experiment... and as someone deeply involved in technology for over 30 years; I can 100% agree with every... single... word... she said!

Is a "one-time pin" really a one time pin if you have to repeat the process every time you authenticate? Is this the seriously the best thing that *smart people* could think of? Every time I go through the process I feel like I'm being a bit insulted... or is that just me?

Posit the question... what if there were a *true* replacement to QBasic? What would that look like? How fast could it run? What would the overall Edit/Run (F5) experience be? Here's a sneak peek at what could be...

What is this voodoo... (about 3 weeks of work, that's what)🤪

Certainly not implying it's of *production quality* at this point, but passing along that @AvaloniaUI templates for #visualbasic now available in source form at github.com/CommunityVB/Templ… ; will will publish as nuget packages after some time for testing and (hopefully) feedback.

You know... you have to give it to a project maintainer that is attempting to educate a group on how there's no interest by a particular community when several from that very community are actively engaged in that very conversation. #visualbasic #dotnet #notdeadyet

I took a moment to check out the progress with .NET 8 `PublishAot`, specifically, with a vbPixelGameEngine example and I have to say that I'm very excited to see the attached.

And, you know... with access to pixels with essentially unlimited colors; you know I couldn't resist leveraging all of this capability to reproduce the look of...

Also played with a bit with reproducing MS-DOS-style fonts... and to test, made a couple of samples so I could rock-n-roll like it's 1988; for starters...

Made a bit of progress on improving some of the performance characteristics in vbPGE... #visualbasic

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