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We're entering the human era
While the investors, VCs, governments, and every influencer who can read news are all heralding the oncoming age of AI, I believe that the opposite is happening. We're entering the...
Electron apps: web browsers in a trenchcoat
FastMail released a native, cross-platform app a while ago. It's an Electron app, so, basically web pages and web browsers running locally. It looks almost exactly like its web page....
You probably don’t need a UUID
My troubles with record identifiers start with a web site I developed, Eksi Sozluk. It's been one of the most popular Turkish web sites in the world for the last...
Could IPv6 have an edge over IPv4?
I wrote about my adventures on IPv6 before. Basically, it seemed like IPv6 solved address space limitation problem with a larger address space while IPv4 just used NAT, and that...
Constructors vs static methods in C#
We create objects in C# by calling their constructor. Simple, just a “new Class()”. There are other ways to create objects though: one is…
On versioning
I didn’t investigate the history of versioning per se, but I’m pretty sure first version numbers were just simple integers: 1, 2… Apollo…
EF6 to EF Core migration cheatsheet
This is from my old notes around EF Core 3.1 timeframe in case it's useful for anyone else. It might be outdated now though.
Use MySQL on WSL2 without a container
My firsthand experience with using MySQL on WSL2 without a container
Isn't WSL2 just a VM?
My take on Windows NT subsystems and the thin line between VMs and subsystems.
Vibe coding in the 90's
Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go...
From passwords to passkeys
A partially accurate historical account on how we finally arrived at passkeys as the ultimate solution to accessible and secure authentication from simple passwords.
Safe zero-copy operations in C#
My attempt at talking about one of the most underrated features of C#.
Don't purchase your iPhone with AppleCare+
My adventures dealing with purchasing AppleCare+ along with the iPhone.
Good people doing good things
Thoughts on Scott Hanselman's TEDx talk titled "Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?"
IPv6 for the remotely interested
I’ve known about IPv6 for the last two decades or so, but I’ve never gone beyond “an overengineered solution to the IPv4 address space problem”. IPv6 was even presented as...