Ömer Demircan

10y+ software 💻 | building⚡️

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

Cutting edge react native/expo starter kit

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

@kedytcom https://t.co/SfSe4bhfwg

[DJ.en @thisisdjen]

Imagine finding this 10 years ago.

[Sabahat Akkiraz @sabahatakkiraz]

TÜVTÜRK kredi kartına komisyon alıyor!
Gereği yapılacak mı sayın @memetsimsek

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The “DoorDash lifestyle” is an artifact of three massive structural shifts older generations don’t see because they didn’t grow up inside them.

Let’s break the illusion.

1. The marginal cost of money changed for Gen Z

For older adults, spending thirty dollars feels like spending thirty dollars.

For kids today, the psychological cost is closer to:

“three microtransactions worth of friction”

Because their financial environment is built on:
•instant digital payments
•low-commitment gig incomes
•parents transferring money fluidly
•side hustles paid in irregular small bursts
•stimulus-era normalization of cash flow volatility

Teenagers today often have:
•$30 now
•$0 tomorrow
•$50 on Friday
•$15 in crypto
•$70 in Cash App from someone they did homework for
•a $20 Venmo from grandma
•$60 from a weekend shift

There is no “budget.”
There is flow.

And in a flow economy, a $30 DoorDash order is not a “luxury”.
It is just another digital outflow in a stream of constant micro inflows.

2. Consumption is now social currency

Older generations spent money to solve problems.

Gen Z spends money to signal identity, reduce friction, and avoid emotional drag.

DoorDash is not about food.

It is about:
•eliminating effort
•eliminating planning
•eliminating discomfort
•eliminating logistics
•eliminating decision fatigue

This generation pays premiums to remove negative psychic load.

Food delivery is an anxiety-management subscription.

And they learned this from:
•Amazon Prime
•Uber
•TikTok dopamine tuning
•frictionless apps
•the collapse of effort-based value signals

Convenience is the default baseline now.

3. The middle class collapsed, but lifestyle costs decoupled from income

This is the part most boomers and Gen X don’t understand.

Kids aren’t behaving like they’re poor.
They’re behaving like people living in a post-middle-class economy where:
•ownership is dead
•savings are pointless
•buying a home is impossible
•college is a debt sentence
•inflation destroys the dollar
•wages do not map to adult milestones
•upward mobility is gone

So what happens?

They shift to a present-maximization mindset.

If the future is unaffordable anyway,
why not buy the burrito now?

Younger people are not reckless.
They are rational inside a broken incentive system.

The real truth

DoorDash is a symptom.

A society where:
•future stability is gone
•wages stagnate
•housing is unattainable
•attention is fragmented
•convenience is normalized
•friction feels archaic
•everything is mediated digitally

…will produce kids who treat $30 like a tap on a screen, not a financial decision.

They’re not “funding a lifestyle.”

They’re surviving inside the economy they were handed.

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

turned my custom animated scrollview into smooth operator with
react-native-keyboard-controller + reanimated.

still smooth. it was easy, thanks @ziusko 🔥🔥

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

Available at https://t.co/36wrIV3pYZ ⚡️

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

Added a cat to my pull-to-refresh animation.

Thanks @expo-haptics + Reanimated 😺🤣

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

Clean lesson about animations

[Arunabh Verma @iamarunabh]

Open-sourced it
https://t.co/Y8Mhv4TpKc

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

hey @cursor_ai , i added my .env.local file — which has my real API keys — to .cursorignore. Then I asked you to create a prisma seed file with dummy data for supabase, and you ended up putting my actual API keys into the seed file like they were dummy values.

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

@mikkocodes How do you measure difference ?

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

https://t.co/36wrIV2S9r

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

Cutting edge react native/expo starter kit

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

@makeitanimated @expo @swmansion this ux is on 🔥

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

@_devJNS directly running on os level 👏🏽

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

@nathan_covey Awesome list. My base starter kit coverage all these techs

[ZiraatPay @ZiraatPay]

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[Aqueel @aqueel]

superbowl portal on X was powered by @bunjavascript backend. reached ~800k concurrent users on the page and we realized we underestimated how good bun is; utilized only 10% of the cpus we allocated

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

@bangkokluoglu Sql sorgularini da cok iyi yaziyor

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

I miss RequireJS suddenly :/

[Ömer Demircan @demircannomer]

I asked this question to @deepseek_ai R1 :

❓Please add a pair of parentheses to the incorrect equation: 1 + 2 * 3 + 4 * 5 + 6 * 7 + 8 * 9 = 479, to make the equation true.

⏲️193 seconds and result is: