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While the investors, VCs, governments, and every influencer who can read news are all heralding the oncoming age of AI, I believe that the opposite is happening. We're entering the human era. The complexity of human mind has always been underestimated. We have epitomized certain intellectual heroes like
FastMail released a native, cross-platform app a while ago. It's an Electron app, so, basically web pages and web browsers running locally. It looks almost exactly like its web page. FastMail desktop app on the left, FastMail web page on the right The only discernible difference is
My troubles with record identifiers start with a web site I developed, Eksi Sozluk . It's been one of the most popular Turkish web sites in the world for the last quarter century. When I first wrote it in 1999, I had to run it on a remote hosting
I wrote about my adventures on IPv6 before. Basically, it seemed like IPv6 solved address space limitation problem with a larger address space while IPv4 just used NAT, and that meant IPv6 didn't add much value because IPv4 practically didn't have any address space concerns anymore.
Where are we at? Where are we going to?
We create objects in C# by calling their constructor. Simple, just a “new Class()”. There are other ways to create objects though: one is…
I didn’t investigate the history of versioning per se, but I’m pretty sure first version numbers were just simple integers: 1, 2… Apollo…
Going over one of the greatest myths of RDBMS world
My adventures with Task Scheduler on Windows
This is from my old notes around EF Core 3.1 timeframe in case it's useful for anyone else. It might be outdated now though.
My ramblings about "click here to".
My firsthand experience with using MySQL on WSL2 without a container
My take on Windows NT subsystems and the thin line between VMs and subsystems.
Is there an impending doom for cellular carriers?
Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of trial and errors to find out how to accomplish a certain task. Well, I found a