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Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
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Send an EmailThoughts on building software, running a business, and everything in between.
On labels, assumptions, and the cost of fitting people into boxes, and why the urge to categorise others reveals more about us than about them.
On balancing university entrance exam preparation with building and maintaining software on my own, and why the two are not as incompatible as they sound.
Why 'why' is the one question we gradually stop asking, the confusion between sifting and pecking, and what it costs the teams that go quiet.
Practical CI/CD pipeline design for solo projects: GitHub Actions, caching, parallel jobs, and deployment strategies built for speed and reliability.
On alienation, the Turkish word yabancılaşma, and living between school and the work of building software: the space between worlds is a gap, not a bridge.
A masal I wrote in March 2025: a soup whose recipe is a secret, a witch who wants it, and a grandfather whose real gift was refusing to explain.
Hard-won open-source licensing lessons: why MIT was the wrong default, the move to CC BY-NC-SA, dual licensing, AGPL for SaaS, and why a CLA matters.
How I built a Discord invite-tracking system that handles thousands of events per minute and detects fake accounts with behavioural heuristics.
Practical MongoDB patterns for high-throughput apps: per-guild documents, capped collections, compound indexes, bulk writes and lazy schema migration at scale.
Nâzım Hikmet wrote it in prison in 1948, and the whole argument sits in the first line: living is not a thing you do with one hand.
The architecture behind Chat Guard, a Discord moderation bot running across thousands of servers: sharding, MongoDB at scale, and the event pipeline.
The thinking behind guden.tr: why personal sites still matter in an age of platforms, and what I plan to write about here, software, business, and the rest.