Life

2025

Books I Read in 2025

I’ve read quite a few books in 2025, and this time, instead of using Goodreads, I decided to keep

26 Dec, 25

2025

Four years at PlanetScale

It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and accomplishments during this period.

20 Jan, 25

2024

My feelings about X (formerly Twitter)

This will be short, but I just wanted to rant and vent here because this is my space. I'

07 Apr, 24

2022

Recap Year 2022

It's been four years since I wrote a recap. I wrote an update about my life two years

29 Dec, 22

2022

Reflections on my relationship with social media

Today marks my 30th day of not using any Social Media. I didn't like a single tweet, didn&

27 Oct, 22

2022

A new home for my blog

Some news about this website you're just reading. I migrated my Blog's infrastructure from a custom

30 Sep, 22

2021

Joining PlanetScale

I'm joining PlanetScale, and here is my story on how I decided to join.

01 Jan, 21

2020

Why I left the U.S.

Last week I announced that I was leaving the U.S and going back to my home country, Turkey. Many people asked why I was leaving. I want to share some of the details of our decision.

20 Dec, 20

2018

Recap Year 2018

My annual review and recap of the year 2018. Family & trips, Side projects, Youtube channel, Working remotely at DigitalOcean, and many other things.

29 Dec, 18

2018

Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects

There are times when you have to take a step back and observe your surroundings. Sometimes you're not aware of the things which put you in an unpleasant situation. After reading 'It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work', I decided to make a significant change in my life.

10 Oct, 18

2018

Why I turned off comments

From now on, there are no more comments sections below each post. It's a long-term experiment and

12 Jan, 18

2018

Recap: Year 2017

I've never written a post like this, but I think it's worth writing something about 2017

02 Jan, 18

2017

Notes about migrating to Hugo

I've moved my blog from Wordpress.com to Hugo. I wrote some of my thoughts on why I made the switch, ideas, improvements for the design, and custom tooling for my editing workflow.

30 Nov, 17

2017

Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

When I’ve started writing my stories on Medium it felt really good. Medium was the perfect "medium"

31 Jul, 17