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Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
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From cassettes to streaming, the medium stopped making impatience inconvenient. On the Jevons paradox, shrinking attention, and what we traded for speed.
Turkish builds the word for rest out of the word for listening. Ten kilometres along the Bosphorus is the only reliable way I have found to test whether that is true.
How to make a personal site readable by AI agents and LLMs: implementing llms.txt, structured RSS, semantic HTML, JSON-LD, and machine-readable metadata.
How I think about product design, why typography matters more than colour, and what a hotel door in London taught me about interfaces.
What gets lost and found thinking in two languages at once: Turkish word order, the untranslatable gönül, and etymology as quiet correction.
Turkish separates hearing from listening with two different verbs, and the root of the second one means stillness.
Thoughts on being taken seriously before you look the part, and why age is a worse predictor of capability than people assume.
Performance patterns for Next.js 15 on Cloudflare Workers via OpenNext: Server Components, static generation, the missing filesystem, images without an optimiser, redirects in config, and font and CSS budgets.
Why does every brief demand AI? From the Asch conformity experiment to pitch-deck buzzwords, how the tech industry rewards imitation over independent thought.
On dissatisfaction, the Arabic-origin word hırs, and why ambition feeds on itself: the thing that drives you and the thing that exhausts you are the same thing.
SmmPres could not compete on price, so I stopped reselling and became the supply. It worked, and then I sold it. What that taught me about moats, and about the difference between stopping something and stopping doing it.
On coding culture in Turkey, being bilingual in a global industry, and what it means to build for a global market from the Bosphorus.