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Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
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Integrating charitable micro-donations into iOS apps using StoreKit, the technical implementation and the philosophy behind purpose-driven software
The story behind Snooze If You Can, an iOS alarm app built in Swift and SwiftUI, from concept to open-source release
The difference between hearing your team and actually listening to them
Thoughts on leading a company before turning eighteen, and why age is a worse predictor of capability than people assume.
Performance optimisation patterns for Next.js 15 deployed on Vercel, from React Server Components to image optimisation and edge middleware
The tech industry rewards imitation and penalises independent thought
How and why HMD Corporation launched an entertainment division covering record labels, distribution, and artist management.
The thing that drives you and the thing that exhausts you are the same thing
SmmPres ran for two years, served thousands of users, and then I shut it down. This is what I learned from building and killing a product.
On coding culture in Turkey, being bilingual in a global industry, and what it means to build a London-headquartered company from the Bosphorus.
The principles that survived five years of running HMD Corporation and the assumptions that did not
On labels, assumptions, and the cost of fitting people into boxes