Sedat Kapanoğlu

Technology

Good people doing good things

Thoughts on Scott Hanselman's TEDx talk titled "Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?"

IPv6 for the remotely interested

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

Solving disinformation with Internet literacy

Fake people and fake news have existed on Internet since forever. They didn’t make such a terrible impact at the beginning because Internet…

What are the strong sides of Windows?

This was an answer I wrote years ago on Quora, now I moved it here.

Hover is over

This is my UI design advice inspired from “Eval is evil.” Stop relying on hover for revealing hidden actions, or providing essential...

To test or not to test

This is an excerpt from my book Street Coder, prepared by Christopher Kaufmann from Manning Publications.

I’m writing a book

I’m writing a book titled Street Coder for beginner and medium-level programmers. It’s got released recently as part of Manning Early…

Hey isn’t for me, for now

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.

How is computer programming different today than 20 years ago?

I saw a question on Quora asking this and I started to write an answer. But it got so long that I converted into a post here.

A Pledge for Namespace Directives in C#

TradeNet (later TradeSoft), the company I worked for back in 2000 had me enrolled in a .NET Early Adopter Training Program which taught…

Transitioning to Nullable References

So you plan on switching to .NET Core 3.0 but you’re not sure if you also want to make use of the new feature called “nullable references”. Yes, it is a great feature in terms of preventing bugs and crashes so you should be using it, but how should you approach switching to it?

Operating Systems

Why are x86 and x64 named as such?

This is the slightly edited version of my answer on Quora from 2019.