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Created by ChatGPT I ran an experiment on myself last week. I stepped outside, looked up at the perfectly blue afternoon sky, and said out loud: “The sky is blue.” Then I spent 20 minutes trying to convince myself it was green.What happened next scared me. Within minutes, I found mys... Read all
You’re fresh out of a coding bootcamp or university, armed with knowledge of the latest PHP frameworks and RESTful API design patterns. You’ve built impressive personal projects with Laravel or Symfony. Your GitHub is polished. You’re ready to change the world with your clean code and microservices ... Read all
(My personal experience shows that) without a steady/sufficient/stable income, reading any book or article about motivation is nothing but a waste of time. P.S. 1: None of these motivational sources or arguments are really valid in the country that I live anyway. With income or without it. P.S. 2: M... Read all
September 15, two years ago, and resigning from a ~4-year job was a turning point in my life. It marked the end of my migration journey to Turkey and the beginning of dozens of questions about my career path. Three months later, I still hadn’t fully understood the situation I was in. The crisis... Read all
I’ve always been a sucker for the big “what if” questions. What if the human story, our messy, beautiful tangle of biology, culture, and instinct, holds secrets we haven’t even begun to guess? Not sci-fi fantasies, but real, grounded possibilities hiding in the cracks between disciplines. I’ve spent... Read all
I was sitting in a coffee shop yesterday, watching the barista carefully craft my latte. Her movements were precise, almost artistic. Then it hit me: how long until a robot does this job? Not because it should. But because it could.And then I couldn’t stop thinking about it. We’re charging full-sp... Read all
For old-generation developers like me, switching from jQuery to React in terms of deployment concepts was horrifying. Remember when deploying meant just FTPing some files and refreshing the browser? Those days are gone, replaced by builds, bundles, and server-side rendering. Let’s assume you wrote ... Read all
I recently watched my neighbor’s kid teaching their smart speaker to tell better jokes. The speaker kept missing the mark, and the kid kept refining the prompt, determined to get it right. That’s when it hit me: this generation isn’t afraid of AI, they’re shaping it. We’re not in a race against AI.... Read all
In the 1940s, the world witnessed the birth of a revolutionary invention: the transistor. This tiny device, first created by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947, replaced bulky vacuum tubes and became the cornerstone of modern computing. By allowing the flow of e... Read all
But let’s be honest: it’s longer than it needs to be, with repeated points and drawn-out explanations. So, I decided to do you a favor. I’ve boiled down the entire book into this practical guide. If you’re serious about quitting smoking, this is all you need. No fluff, no filler, just the essence o... Read all
Data runs the world. Whether you’re building a website, analyzing customer behavior, or automating tasks, you’ll eventually need to store, retrieve, and manipulate data. That’s where MySQL comes in.MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that enables efficient stora... Read all
Breakups can feel like the other side of the coin of the joy you once experienced in your relationship. While not inevitable, they are often unavoidable. Here’s the biological explanation in two sentences: The surge of feel-good hormones (dopamine and oxytocin) during the relationship creates an... Read all