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The game my 5-year-old designed. My daughter, like most 5 year olds, likes to play games on her iPad. There was this long overdue idea in my head: build her a game that’s actually hers , and get some real hours together while doing it. I wouldn’t know much about game development apart from a couple of attempts with Flash when I was 12 at the end of the ’90s. So nothing much…
So I started creating a few journal entries with the help of ‘AI’. I began drafting a couple of sentences here and there using Typora coz I’m in love with it and scratched the pad with floating thoughts on my reMarkable with the aim of turning them into neat journal entries. Then I provided those to Claude and asked it to first learn my writing style from my past entries and then…
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Single Page Apps were about to storm out the classical client-server MVC type of web application approach. Cloud transformation of most enterprises was just starting. There wasn’t a better time to experiment with a cloud native app, to find a niche and build a SaaS business around it. I was trapped in doing CRUD apps in my day job and had a colleague who felt the same way. Both looking for…
Circa 2013, Daft Punk just released Random Access Memories and it was one of those evenings where I was on the hunt for finding an open-source project to contribute to. Instead of toying with pet projects on my own, I wanted to experience developing with other fellow developers in the wild. Get over that anxiety of posting your first Pull Request on a public repository. No matter how small, I had…
Dear reader, if you’re coming across this page in 2026 you gotta remember the context here. These projects were built in the dark ages of software development, when we had to type every single character of code by hand. Every. Single. One. There was no “hey agent, build me a SaaS app”. No watching AI implement things on a whim while you sip your coffee. We used to sit there,…
Hi! I am Halil. 🇵🇱 A software engineer based in Poland. 👨🏼💻 Running my own software consultancy business out of my home office in Poland. Programming is a hobby from my early childhood days. I have been doing it for more than 15 years professionally. I happened to live in a few different countries either as an expat software engineer or for obtaining degrees in software engineering (Estonia,…