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There is a fundamental inconsistency between what consumers expect from transportation and what today’s electric vehicle market actually delivers.

Maybe you’ve had a different experience, but I’ve never once looked at a system and said, “This is perfect, we’re done here.”

Is it technically impossible to build a smartphone with a battery that lasts a full month?

This article was originally written in Turkish in December 2025 as a contribution to the “2026 Trends in the Software World” series.

In our projects, I had a simple script named do.sh to quickly define and run tasks.

A few years ago, to better understand ray tracing, I read the book Ray Tracing in One Weekend.

I took a quick look at the new features in Python 3.14.

I assign a minimum lifespan to things I want to own.

I had the experience of upgrading Python in the projects from 3.8 to 3.12 in one step, and I realized that keeping the Python versions up to date is just as critical as keeping the dependencies up to date.

17 years ago, Steve Jobs stood on stage with a manila envelope in his hand and pulled out a laptop.

Sometimes I see this photo when Apple announces a new product and there are some really funny jokes about it on social media.

I had an incident that was as fortuitous as the alignment of the holes in Swiss cheese and, frankly, I wanted to take the vehicle to an open field, pour petrol on it and burn it.

When dealing with more than one language, we look for similar approaches across languages.

Python favours letters and meaningful keywords for the logical operators, and all of them return a value depending on the conditions: not: The opposite of a condition, the reverse of the logical state of its operand.

I wanted to repost the part about the mobility of an article I wrote in Turkish for 2024 Trends in the Software World on my blog.

Authy was my bad decision to use it for two-factor authentication.

I’m very conservative to avoid changing my routines, habits about my preferred software and hardware.

I really like Japanese cars.

When someone asks me about the starting point of my career, I always tell them about my Linux/BSD adventure.

I discovered a beautiful car museum in Izmir.

This isn’t advice, but I’d like to share what I did to get my daughter interested in coding.

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.

I’ve used Emacs for years, and it’s not easy to get rid of this archaic (what?)

“Hey, Twitter is not like in the good old days, I’m switching to Mastodon.”

The bundle is here; I will update the list when I finished a game.

When I started using Windows in 2014, I continued to keep my development environment on Linux.

Pair programming has been a known and applied method for a long time.

I’m not a CTO of Radity anymore, but I trust that it will succeed more in the future.

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.

Mostly I do not prefer to read the books written for teaching a programming language.

I had trouble understanding the story of the game because I didn’t play the first one.

I have a gaming PC for two years but couldn’t have time to play a game.

My objective for the year 2019 was joining one more programming language community after Python and Lisp.

I started to take a look at C++ courses to understand Rust better because it helps me to see the advantages of Rust.

I started using an iPad instead of a second laptop for more effective use.

At the end of my three-week vacation, I was asked for a seemingly easy task.

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.

For good things in life, you need labour, patience, and time.

Our technology is not so advanced to be an eye or an ear for us.

I use PEP8 in my Python projects except for a few rules.

Spreadsheet applications are the most functional applications I’ve used.

With just a command: # terminal $ ENV=PROD .

PowerShell and Git encoding problems To make git log command output properly display on Windows, we need to set a variable named LC_ALL: LC_ALL="C.UTF-8" Incorrect home folder in Emacs This problem is not only about Emacs.