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I really like Japanese cars. There are Japanese brands that are durable, safe and have very good parts and service support. Toyota and Lexus are my favourite brands. But on the other hand, I was looking for value for money and I knew that Tesla was unbeatable in that regard. My beloved wife and eldest daughter loved the Tesla, while I, as a gourmet car guy, preferred the Lexus. My wife suggested that I test drive both the Lexus and the Tesla. I tested the Lexus ES350h first and fell in love with the car. Everything was just as I wanted, I never had to change my old habits and because it was a hybrid, the fuel consumption was very low. Most importantly, it was not an SUV, which for me is a great opportunity that sedans are still being produced. ...

When someone asks me about the starting point of my career, I always tell them about my Linux/BSD adventure. These operating systems still exist and most people know them, but not everyone knows about Pardus, and even if they do, it is not the same Pardus I mean. I grew up in a house without internet and the only connection to the world was through technology and gaming magazines. I used to rewrite the articles in magazines that I liked and wanted to understand on my typewriter because I read too fast and didn’t understand anything, so the typewriter was kind of slowdown for me. Sometimes codes were shared in magazines and they would also write what the output would be when we compile and run these codes. That’s something a typewriter could never do. So I grew up dreaming of owning a personal computer until I started university. ...

I discovered a beautiful car museum in Izmir. I flew to Izmir at the invitation of my former colleague and we met at Adnan Menderes airport. We rented a car to avoid wasting time on public transport and drove straight to Torbalı and the museum. The museum, which opened its doors in 2015, offers visitors a delightful journey through the evolution of automobile history. Upon entering, one is greeted by a fascinating array of iconic cars representing different eras, from the past to the present. The museum’s collection not only showcases well-known classic cars, but also includes rare gems that spark the imagination and transport visitors to bygone times. Apart from the impressive car display, the museum features dedicated areas for motorcycles, accessories, and intricate car mockups, adding depth and variety to the overall experience. Describing every nook and cranny of the museum would spoil the element of surprise for future visitors, but rest assured, there is much more to explore and marvel at. For those with an interest in automotive history, or simply a curiosity to witness the evolution of transportation, this museum comes highly recommended. Whether you’re a fervent car enthusiast or simply passing through the area, it’s an experience not to be missed. ...

This isn’t advice, but I’d like to share what I did to get my daughter interested in coding. Like any parent, I showed her all sorts of things to learn coding at a young age, it was zero curiosity. After a while I couldn’t understand why I had done this, I just put it on the shelf and let her do whatever she wanted, I just watched and expected her to ask for something. She said she wanted to write and draw on the walls of her room, I said yes, you can, on the other hand I was thinking about the price of repainting the walls. But anyway. ...

As I mentioned in my last post, I started using VSCode to see what I’m missing and I thought that it’s a good time to take all the risks and break my Emacs configuration. In the last changes, I tried to use the built-in alternatives of the packages like eglot instead of lsp-mode. Now I’ve made the decision to update Emacs to version 29. When I first switched to Emacs 28, all my performance problems were solved thanks to native compilation support. Most of these problems were caused by LSP1 and it was very annoying to wait even half a second to see syntax errors in the code. Now I don’t close Emacs on the server for months. This was the most significant change to Emacs 28 that I can’t forget. ...

I’ve used Emacs for years, and it’s not easy to get rid of this archaic (what?) editor. Although it helped me do my job better, my setup was not as stable as in the editor. When I started working as a web developer, I was installing all the project requirements on the local machine, even though I was not using virtual environments. Emacs was good enough to make development possible. ...

“Hey, Twitter is not like in the good old days, I’m switching to Mastodon.” No no, I’ll not say this. I already tried that, and I couldn’t succeed. Because I was alone and my friends continued to stay on Twitter. Now, after the latest news about Twitter layoffs, I see a similar migration again, but I don’t think it will be successful either. So the main thing I want is to be a platform-independent content creator; if someone wants to reach me, I want them to visit my website, or if someone has negative thoughts about me… Maybe they can write me an email, or I really don’t care. ...

The bundle is here; I will update the list when I finished a game. Crosscode Gonner Inmost Sundered Baba Is You Moon Hunters Celeste Towerfall Ascension Towerfall Dark World Minit They Bleed Pixels Long Gone Days Midnight Scenes Midnight Scenes Episode 2 Hidden Folks Lenna’s Inception Golf Peaks Detective Case And Clown Bot Pushamo Cruel World Gun Rounds Sokobond Haque Schildmaid Mx Magnibox Ultra Hat Dimension Rebop Blasters Explorers Delver Speer Upsquid Danger Crew Wand Wars Paranoihell Dogs Throwing Words 2 Vylan Snack Scoffer Micro Dash Crystal Anomaly Bouncy Cars Bugspeed Collider Hack Grid Death Drives A Bus The Machines Garden

When I started using Windows in 2014, I continued to keep my development environment on Linux. I first did this with Vagrant; then, I used WSL, Docker, WSL2. I had an idea forming in my head ever since. I’m already using two different systems on a computer simultaneously; is it possible to use one in a thin client and connect to the other remotely? PURPOSE Let me first start by explaining why I want to do this: ...

Pair programming has been a known and applied method for a long time. I know that it has more than one purpose and practice, but I want to say some things about an expert and a novice working together. Investigation For a long time, I went to the dental clinic for braces treatment, and after my treatment was over, I had surgeries two times (no worries, I’m fine). Sometimes there was more than one doctor at my appointments. One was relatively more experienced than the other and would generally instruct the less experienced to do what they would have done. The novice one was following the instructions without asking any questions because there was an actual patient, and they were trying to imitate the expert one as much as possible. After a while, the novice was now taking care of the appointments alone. ...

I’m not a CTO of Radity anymore, but I trust that it will succeed more in the future. One of my old coworkers asked me some questions to understand what I was doing in this position. To remember it later, I wanted to share the questions and my answers here. What are the most critical three needs and goals of a CTO? To ensure that the IT organization does business uninterruptedly and efficiently. To follow the news about IT and integrate the tools if there’s something new to facilitate its operation. To save the company know-how in safe and up-to-date, and help the new coworkers to adapt to their teams quickly. ...

Most of the websites are using Helvetica as an alternative font, and Ubuntu is trying to set Nimbus Sans as a similar font even you have Helvetica font. Also, the default font on Firefox is DejaVu Sans, but the default fonts are working just if the styles don’t specify a font family in a website. Nimbus Sans comes with fonts-urw-base35 package, and it’s ubuntu-desktop’s dependency, direct or indirect. I need ubuntu-desktop to use GNOME, so the best solution here is to disable the font altogether and refresh the fonts cache. ...

Mostly I do not prefer to read the books written for teaching a programming language. Because a good language community already places the importance on their websites to promote the programming language beautifully as in Python and Rust. In these websites, you can find documentation, tutorials, even a free ebook that allows you to read from the website directly, and they’re mostly up-to-date. As you know, Rust is not an easy-to-learn programming language. So I frequently look at the official documentation of Rust, and sometimes I choose a random topic and read them again and again. Before starting to read this book, I took a look at the pages and saw some details that I still missed on the Rust documentation. Then I read the entire book thoroughly. ...

I have a gaming PC for two years but couldn’t have time to play a game. So I decided to change my priorities in my life and will try to play more games and read more books this year. My first plan was to play this game with my daughter, but I realized that it was not a suitable game for kids after I bought it, so I’ll pay attention to use the family filter from now on. ...

I had trouble understanding the story of the game because I didn’t play the first one. You start to play the game in the middle of the adventure. You have a sword and shield, so you think that the story is in the past, but you also have a kind of motorcycle that has no wheels but can fly. Also, you have a brother in arms named Gen, and it’s a robot. The other friend Trin tells you the story during the game, help you to solve the puzzle. ...

My objective for the year 2019 was joining one more programming language community after Python and Lisp. I followed .NET Core in my first six months and did some projects using C# and F#. But then, I decided that learning Rust is a better idea. Some of the Python and Django developers I’ve followed have had a significant impact on my decision. Python is a programming language that easy to learn, it has a significant and active community, and I believe that it will keep its popularity for a longer time. Therefore, when choosing another programming language, I make sure that it has different features and priorities. I’m not sure, but I think that that’s why I couldn’t continue with .NET community. I already produce microservices, REST API, gRPC server, or even classifying things using machine learning libraries in Python. But I would not have preferred Python if I want to make a mobile application, that would not make sense. Or I would use Rust for embedded or blockchain projects; I would code data or text mining tools in Lisp, for example. ...

I started to take a look at C++ courses to understand Rust better because it helps me to see the advantages of Rust. The following images are from a Linkedin course, the instructor is Bill Weinman, and his courses are perfect if you want to program with C++. If you have a photographic memory to remind something quickly, then you may like these images explaining data types in programming. ...

I started using an iPad instead of a second laptop for more effective use. Although it is excellent for reading things, answering emails, checking tasks, it is still not possible to use as a laptop with these devices. So I tried to connect to my primary PC remotely. But this was not satisfactory for me either. I took some notes to compare when iOS 13 and some updates came. ...

At the end of my three-week vacation, I was asked for a seemingly easy task. We were going to release the new version of the project we developed: Is today is the last working of the week? No. Is there any problem with the unit tests? No. Are all changes confirmed by the product manager, in the staging server? Yes. I always note everything, and so I write this article to remind this experience. My other habit is to define dosh sub-commands to access frequently used commands in my whole projects. It doesn’t matter if the project is written in .NET Core or used Django; ...

Environment Variables I still use some development tools that are used by most Linux users and these tools need some environment variables like LC_ALL, HOME, etc. When I have a new PC with Windows 10, I start to use with defining these variables. Take a look at this post for more detail. PowerShell Core It’s possible to use BASH on Windows indeed, but I think PowerShell Core is a good alternative. Git integration is working well, defining aliases and functions is easy: ...