Org-roam is not for me
For a while, I have been using , a Zettelkasten-like tool for Emacs. The main idea of Zettelkasten tools is to create a database of notes that are linked...
Am I a musician yet? - Superbooth 2025 Experience - Orhun's Blog
FOSS • Linux • Programming
copy_with_context.nvim plugin released
Copy lines with file path and line number metadata in neovim. Perfect for sharing code snippets with context.
Thoughts and Prayers
It’s not unusual to see articles consisting of lists of reasons why Apple is facing an existential crisis. Agonizing and hand-wringing about Apple been a meme for decades, so much so that it had it…
Neural Network precision pitfalls in the wild
In my work, I draw on concepts from computational geometry and graphics, often demanding high-precision guarantees. A typical case is sampling an object’s implicit function to generate a parameterised form for downstream use.
The Orange Pi RV2 RISC-V SBC
Although I’ve spent many years looking at SBCs, so far nearly all of them have been ARM-based, and this is the first time I’ve had a proper ...
Rails 8 adds built in authentication generator
Rails 8's built-in authentication generator offers a lightweight, secure, and customizable alternative to Devise or Auth0, providing full control over sessions and tokens.
PDCA Quality Control: Applying Plan-Do-Check-Act in Modern Industries
The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle is a systematic framework for continuous learning and quality control, essential for high-stakes decisions.
What is work?
Work is the thing we do when we are not doing what we want. That’s the implicit definition that shaped the industrial centuries.
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
When I turned forty a couple of years ago, one of the things I did for that milestone was to go through all the journals I’ve kept from childhood through adulthood. It was a way to do a retrospective inventory at the midpoint of life. In one of my journals fro…
ECS Survivors Part IV: Collisions
In the last instalment of this blog series, we created a rendering pipeline to allow for drawing multiple objects according to their priority, and we also created a GUI anchoring system allowing us to create dynamic and scalable GUI elements. This time around,…
The Barbican
Three years ago, while searching for Vitsoe setups, I stumbled upon Barbican. I delved deeper and discovered a building complex that was beyond my imaginations. Young Fatih would definitely find it ugly; current me finds it beautiful. The estate was built bet…
Embeddings are underrated
Machine learning (ML) has the potential to advance the state of the art in technical writing. No, I’m not talking about text generation models like Claude, Gemini, LLaMa, GPT, etc. The ML technology that might end up having the biggest impact on technical writ…
WinFS: Windows Future Storage - Canceled! What You Need to Know from a Retired Microsoft Engineer
Dave explains the Windows WinFS (Future Storage) project and why it was canceled. Topics include: - What was WinFS? - Why WinFS was created - File system vs database - WinFS schemas and metadata - Organizing files with relationships - Search capabilities beyo…
Uno Platform Live Coding: ApplicationDataContainer
Today we will be looking into ApplicationDataContainer API and how it can be implemented in Uno Platform
Why Bell Labs Worked.
Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
How I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC
In this post I will briefly describe the journey I went through while implementing defendnot, a tool that disables Windows Defender by using the Windows Security Center (WSC) service API directly. Even though this is most likely not what you expected to see he…
ASP NET Core Caching Explained: Hybrid Cache + Redis + Dapper!
In this video series, we've seen EF Core, Dapper, Redis, and Hybrid Cache... So let's wire up our ASP Net Core application to use the Hybrid Cache with Dapper and Redis! This video builds on the previous content in this series and we'll see how we can swap ou…
Clearing NuGet Caches
NuGet can cache a lot of packages and other stuffs over time. Here a small rundown on how to clear the biggest chunk.
Uno Platform 6.0 for Windows and Cross-Platform Applications - Nick's .NET Travels
Last week v6.0 of the Uno Platform was released marking the cumulation of a number of years of investment in both the core cross platform framework, as well as the new Uno Platform Studio (including Hot Design), a set of tools that are designed to accelerate y…
Car Companies Are In A Billion-Dollar Software War, And Everyone's Losing
No one has it easy, but some companies are doing a whole lot better than others. Still, the road ahead is a long one.
In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more
Venture capital is screwed. A bubble in AI is their last hope, and they’re betting everything on Sam Altman. It’s heartwarming. Today, we have the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor for Q1 2025. This i…
GitHub - Efeckc17/simple-todo-c: A lightweight, native Windows Todo application built with pure C and the Win32 API.
A lightweight, native Windows Todo application built with pure C and the Win32 API. - Efeckc17/simple-todo-c