Uğur Erdem Seyfi

I recently read Concurrency in Go by Katherine Cox-Buday.

Configurations exist to allow a program to behave differently without modifying its code.

An example of an expression that returns true in JavaScript.

Having my own homelab was something I wanted to try for a long time.

Around 1.5 years ago, I developed a web extension called Mark Scroll Positions both to solve my own need and to experiment.

It has been about a year since I decided to learn Go, and more than half a year since I started working at an HFT company that uses it.

I built my own Corne keyboard around six months ago, in July.

ℹ️ Disclaimer This post was written while Go 1.25 is the mainstream release.

Some people think having an organized environment is the result of frequent organizing.

I think “Fake it till you make it” is very poor advice if you read it literally, and otherwise, it is simply badly phrased advice.

Around a year ago, I published a blog post explaining my overall experience Switching from Arch to NixOS.

Here’s a tweet from Tsoding (a recreational programmer who creates cool videos); Stop obsessing over splitting code into files.

This essay presents a list of reflections on my attempts to create a simple workflow for building front-end applications using vanilla JavaScript.

You can quickly try the app through hnstats.rugu.dev Or, see the source code kugurerdem/hn-domain-stats I like hanging out on Hacker News, reading essays.

I frequently come across people thinking, ‘Why bother learning something if AI will do it better than me in the future?’

For me, whether AI can be beneficial or not is out of the question, and I am not here to discuss that in much detail.

I can’t remember when I truly realized the power of writing.

I recently wrote a short essay called Linux Asceticism, and it got a lot of attention on platforms like Hacker News and Reddit.

I’ve been using NixOS for about six months and am generally satisfied with my experience.

Most well-known living philosophies -such as Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Buddhism, and Sufism- advocate some form of Asceticism.

When you interact with a text file using an editor, what you see doesn’t necessarily reflect the data stored in the file.

When we encounter new information that conflicts with our current beliefs, we typically follow one of the preceding options: Ignore the new information.

Up until now, I was not aware that concurrency and parallelism were actually different things since they are often used interchangeably by some.

In this essay, I share some tips that I’ve found particularly beneficial for my own debugging experience.

I’ve switched my desktop computer environment from Arch Linux to NixOS and used it for about a month.

ℹ️ Disclaimer This post was written when Mark Scroll Positions was first built.

A significant amount of my time of the day is spent interacting with computers and cell phones.

I usually enjoy listening to certain types of ambient music or sounds when doing repetitive tasks or even when meditating.

My mother recently mentioned that her phone is continually opening certain windows and prompting her to use services she doesn’t need.

For those who may not be aware, Neovim is to me what a lightsaber is to a Jedi.

In this essay, I describe how I made a Node.js module to listen to keypresses across the system on Linux machines using X.

I’ve recently been involved in a fintech project that demands high performance, posing various challenges related to a solid understanding of low-level concepts, concepts that are primarily relevant to the inner workings of the tools and protocols used be…

This blog post is a review of my journey into software development up until 2023-09-22.

Typing Fast is Important It is often mentioned that the bottleneck in building software projects is not one’s typing ability but ability to think clearly, and to design the architecture effectively.

About a year ago, I was invited to a pair coding session at the startup where I was working.

This essay was originally written for the ‘Introduction to Philosophy I’ (PHIL103) course at Bilkent University, where we delved into various branches of philosophy, including consciousness.