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EvilGeniusLabs.ca
Personal blog · evilgeniuslabs.ca/blogprogramminghistory
EvilGeniusLabs.ca is a personal blog at evilgeniuslabs.ca about programming and history. Since 2026, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “From CVS to Git: thirty years of source control, lived from inside”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the author's in-progress book on the history of Visual Basic. One commenter criticises the AI-generated banner image on the project, not the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
EvilGeniusLabs — a personal lab for C# / .NET / Avalonia, Rust, retro-gaming experiments, and the kind of code that shouldn't work but does.
Most-linked posts?
- From CVS to Git: thirty years of source control, lived from inside3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-28
- History of Visual Basic (Chapter 1)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-02
- The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-30
What Hacker News says?
I found it on the site's books section: https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/books/visual-basic-history
Comment linking /books/visual-basic-history
on “I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up”Submitted What did you love about VB6? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionWhy on earth would you use an AI-generated image [1] (let me be clear: POOR AI IMAGE) for the banner of this project? If you're going to use genai, you need to make sure it actually looks acceptable. Do at least one careful pass over it before publishing. Just look at the details: - The text on the book spines doesn’t even spell “Microsoft” correctly. - Dartmouth is spelled "Darmouth". SIGH. - The screenshot on the…
Comment linking /uploads/content/2026/05/6fd5a7b3274b436fbae1139adefcda97.png
on “I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up”Submitted Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From CVS to Git: thirty years of source control, lived from inside as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of Visual Basic (Chapter 1) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control, lived from inside as a story · 1 points
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