Cagan Mert Islek

Founder @hereus_net | Inventor @theprotocolsfdn
Student, BS in CS @UMassAmherst
Philosopher | ISTJ-A

[Cagan Mert Islek @cmislek]

#enshittification is not a sin of #siliconvalley. It's #wallstreet's fault.

Silicon Valley used to care about us. Built things that we bought. Then Wall Street forced them to turn to rent, so they can see a regulated income flow, independent of releases.

Own your software to end #enshittification.

[Cagan Mert Islek @cmislek]

#REMINDER: #AI doesn't destroy the #environment or burn millions of dollars. It's the #cloudfirst that we have these gigantic AI servers instead of capable-enough hardware in our pockets, on our desks, or as a wearable.

#cloud throttled the evolution of personal #hardware.

[Cagan Mert Islek @cmislek]

#SaaS #companies uses #personalization to make their computers' systems look like these are yours. Truth underneath, it's just a small rent in a multi-organization runtime.

Self-host if you can. Go managed otherwise.

Own your products, not new rows in monthly expenses.

[Cagan Mert Islek @cmislek]

"I work with who are able to do the job, not who knows how to do the job."

I read this quote—credited to an unnamed CEO—in a book. That quote is very relatable in tech as some projects with few independent maintainers become more successful than those of big tech.

Most people think that it is impossible. Actually it is. Knowledge doesn't bring passion. Without passion, objectives get set in a way that produces minimal output that completes the assignment, thus final product stays inferior to the alternative built by those who are able to do it.

Basic math rarely works in real life.

[HereUS @hereus_net]

dev/proj project has hit a wondrous milestone!

Now officially called as HereUS Procurro, our developer tool has already proven its production-readiness on various HereUS projects.

With the 0.2 alpha release, we decided to give it its own SNS accounts, and soon, a website. More updates will be posted on these accounts as we get ready for the stable release this year.

X: @procurrodev
Bluesky: https://t.co/gLwF8Buxhw
Web: https://t.co/eePU3efmO6

[Cagan Mert Islek @cmislek]

"Modern" #GUI stack (@nodejs ecosystem) is too complex that building a scalable @golang backend that can both power a rest api and a @charmcli TUI feels like an easier option. @Android >=16 has Linux terminal anyways.

[Cagan Mert Islek @cmislek]

We completed another awesome #FediForum, and I would like to thank to the everyone I had a conversation with there for participating in a collaboration on shaping the future of the #OpenSocialWeb.

I hope to see every participant, and more, in the next FediForum this fall.

[Cagan Mert Islek @cmislek]

We completed another awesome #FediForum, and I would like to thank to the everyone I had a conversation with there for participating in a collaboration on shaping the future of the #OpenSocialWeb.

I hope to see every participant, and more, in the next FediForum this fall.

[Cagan Mert Islek @cmislek]

We had a perfect start to the first day of the #FediForum with demos!

- Federated E2EE chat
- Progress report on https://t.co/jvUWoW17eB
- Profile aggregation (LinkTree-like)
- Peertube for @FedicaHQ
- Better administration for Mastodon
- FediForum Connect

[Cagan Mert Islek @cmislek]

For the last session, I convened one about defining what is #reasonable for a #commercial entity on fediverse. Albeit my expectations, it was very simple: keeping touch with the #people—once ties with the people is broken, it's expected to fail.