Ulaş Türkmen

Software engineer, ex-cognitive scientist, ex-CTO. Blogs at codes at

[Ulaş Türkmen @morphotactics]

Frontend development is a receding horizon: I sit down to pick it up, make some progress, and then have to take care of other things, and when I come back, there is so much change that it feels like starting from zero again.

[Noorvir @noorvir]

The past 1.5 months have been really fun working on a new product:

Unweave Sessions!

Sessions make it incredibly easy to access GPU VMs across cloud providers. It's also completely open-source. Check it out!

https://t.co/JdShAVuVgg

[Gregor Semieniuk @GregorSemieniuk]

A map of EV charging stations in Chicago *in 1916* in the tweet below.

[sendika.org @sendika_org]

AFAD üstünde bira reklamı olduğu gerekçesiyle Tuborg ve Efes’in gönderdiği polarları kabul etmedi

https://t.co/soAIfLUWFg

[fabian @fabianstelzer]

bladerunner 2023

[Ben Sprung 🇺🇦 @bgsprung]

mind blown by a YouTube comment of all things

[Ulaş Türkmen @morphotactics]

Reviewed one of my favorite business books, Good Strategy Bad Strategy. It's interesting how much a book on strategy can reveal about management and how working under lousy management negatively effects employees' lives.
https://t.co/EGnMWO88ON;

[Ulaş Türkmen @morphotactics]

@BadWritingTakes Lovely how this idiot counts him/herself among the "well-informed" and not "cranks and fanatics"

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

Abstract vs Paper

[Ulaş Türkmen @morphotactics]

We are smack in the middle of a "summer wave" of covid, which due to some reason is not being officially recognized. I know quite a few families who got infected, and due to the mutations, very few people without symptoms.

[Ulaş Türkmen @morphotactics]

Thread on why "AWS is ripe for disruption" is bullshit

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

So @lyft is paying $8m/mo to @AWS -- almost $100m/yr! Each ride costs $.14 in AWS rent. I keep hearing they could build their own DC & save. My early days at @Google cloud, heard the same from customers: "at scale, owning is cheaper". It wasn't - they all came around. Here's why:

[Ulaş Türkmen @morphotactics]

Great idea to remind people of a terrible circumstance. The people who worked to death to prepare Qatar for the world cup stories that deserve to be known.
https://t.co/MZTz0mk5Sr

[Peter Seibel @peterseibel]

Holy cow. An actual good and compelling argument in the tabs vs spaces war. Make was right this whole time!

[Ulaş Türkmen @morphotactics]

Pauline Kael's review of Blade Runner is blistering, with quite a few apt observations though. Maybe she would have thought differently of the director's cut?
https://t.co/7SfBtHMHW5

[Ulaş Türkmen @morphotactics]

Hannah Arendt staring into my soul and reading my mind is an unsettling start for the day

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"When the writing on the wall becomes too frightening, most people flee to the reassurance of day-to-day life with its unchanging, pressing demands. And this temptation today is all the stronger since any long-range view of history isn't very encouraging either..."

Hannah Arendt

[Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH]

github copilot is incredible. it just sells code other people wrote, but because it's an "AI" it is apparently allowed to launder that code without it being a "derivative work". lol. lmao. what an amazing grift.

[Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman]

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Iran soared up to a scorching 52.2°C (126°F) today.

That's the hottest temperature recorded on Earth this year and one of the highest "pre-solstice" temperatures ever recorded.