From the workbench

Notes onmaking things.

Product decisions, game rules and what happens behind the screen.

Oct 8, 20262 min read

A practical distinction between waiting for I/O, running calculations, and starting independent tasks in C#.

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Choosing decimal values, explicit rounding rules, and useful boundary checks for amounts in C#.

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Projection, bounded results, tracking, and query inspection before adding another layer of caching.

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Where document processing ends and network services begin in PDF Tool.

Oct 8, 20262 min read

Tracing an existing workflow, parameterizing SQL, and checking behavior before changing a mature desktop application.

Oct 7, 20262 min read

Four tigers and twenty goats need different plans. A short guide to the rules used in the app.