Orhun's Blog

Good morning from JetBrains Berlin office!

Just trying to answer one simple question: What if the terminal was 3D?

Break the pattern today or the loop will repeat tomorrow.

My thoughts on AI-assisted programming.

I have discovered and shared ~800 open source Rust CLI projects over the past 3 years.

All I wanted was to learn how to play guitar, but ended up building a DIY kit for it.

2025 was a crazy simulation.

I went to Berlin for a music event and here is what happened.

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After Turkey banned Discord, I had to jump through some hoops, fix my VPN, and learn a bit about how DNS works.

Some thoughts on why I started livestreaming my open-source development sessions and my future plans.

I went on a trip to Mongolia to find out the meaning behind my name.

Let's delve into the realm of open source funding along with Ratatui's journey.

Sharing my experience after giving a talk at FOSDEM 2024!

I recently realized stdout is much faster than stderr for Rust.

Here is how you can publish a Rust project with a single click of a button and automate everything.

Let's take a look at what is new in the new version of "Ratatui" and how it became the successor of tui-rs.

"Ratatui" is a Rust library for building rich terminal user interfaces.

Let's experiment with the std.http module of Zig >=0.11 and create an HTTP server/client from scratch (along with some benchmarks)!

"Ratatui" came a long way since its transition from the original tui-rs crate.

"rustypaste" is a self-hosted and minimal file upload/pastebin service written in Rust.

In this post, I'm sharing tips & tricks about managing/maintaining an open-source Zig project and mentioning the commonly used practices.

Recently I have been interested in Alpine Linux and thought it would be nice to maintain some Rust packages in their repositories.

Let's talk about how to detect memory leaks in Zig and avoid them by using the defer statement.

runst is a dead simple notification daemon 🦡 In this post, I'm introducing the project and giving different usage examples that will improve your Linux desktop experience.

I decided to start a new blog series called "Zig Bits" where I share interesting bits of information about the Zig programming language.

Recently I packaged my project git-cliff (changelog generator written in Rust) for NPM with the help of my friend @atlj.

Let's investigate how to generate random numbers without external dependencies in Rust.

Let's talk about how to develop an open sourcerer mindset.

I'm in Norway and depressed.

Some thoughts about open source and the software industry.

I don't use Spotify or any other streaming platform for listening to music.

Recently one of my clients requested me to maintain their Rust project.

sysctl is a simple and great tool for modifying the kernel parameters.

git-cliff is a highly customizable changelog generator that follows conventional commit specifications ⛰️ In this post, I'm explaining the new features in the 0.5.0 release while giving insight into the different use-cases.

gpg-tui is a TUI for managing the GnuPG keys 🔐 In this post, I'm giving a brief introduction to the project as well as describing the thought process and main development challenges behind it.

A guide for spinning up your own instance of 0x0, a no-bullshit file hosting and URL shortening service.

There's a start for everything.

Introducing kmon, a Linux kernel manager and activity monitor 🐧💻