Self-taught software developer. Former engineer at Microsoft Windows Core OS Division. Author of the book Street Coder published by Manning Publications. Created Eksi Sozluk, the most popular Turkish social platform since 1999.
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
A partially accurate historical account on how we finally arrived at passkeys as the ultimate solution to accessible and secure authentication from simple passwords.
My attempt at talking about one of the most underrated features of C#.
My adventures dealing with purchasing AppleCare+ along with the iPhone.
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Thoughts on Scott Hanselman's TEDx talk titled "Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?"
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I’ve known about IPv6 for the last two decades or so, but I’ve never gone beyond “an overengineered solution to the IPv4 address space problem”. IPv6 was even presented as “every atom could get its own IP address, no IP address shortages anymore”, but I didn’t know
Fake people and fake news have existed on Internet since forever. They didn’t make such a terrible impact at the beginning because Internet…
This was an answer I wrote years ago on Quora, now I moved it here.
This is my UI design advice inspired from “Eval is evil.” Stop relying on hover for revealing hidden actions, or providing essential...
This is an excerpt from my book Street Coder, prepared by Christopher Kaufmann from Manning Publications.
I’m writing a book titled Street Coder for beginner and medium-level programmers. It’s got released recently as part of Manning Early…
I’ve tried Hey email service for 10 days in its 14 day evaluation period and have finally decided that it’s not for me.