Sarp

⚡️ Software Engineer for 15+ years, previously at @meta, @snap
Other Interests: Lifestyle Design (Solopreneurs, Digital Nomads, Sabbaticals, FIRE), Psychology

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I started tracking my blood sugar levels. The sensor costs ~$55 for 2 weeks and was painless to install. Follow along for my takeaways from this experiment!

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RIP @ScottAdamsSays. His book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" is one of my all time favorite non-fiction books.

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Github charging for self-hosted action runners is annoying. Any free alternatives for private repositories?

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Lisbon is a great city if you want to meet Americans.

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Love the instruments in this song! https://t.co/Tlci7Buq8O

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It's cool to see which services a startup like Resend uses: https://t.co/RWTUytS5EI

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@sama Bad idea

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Spotify showing songs with matching lyrics is a good example of understanding what your customer wants

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docker, it's not cool to take up 685 GB disk space with your build cache

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When I interviewed for a job in the UK as a junior developer in 2011, I was rejected with the following feedback:
"Was interested in technology but wasn’t overly passionate. Wouldn’t really want to leave him with a codebase alone."
Don't let other people's misjudgment stop you.

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"Ideas don’t come out fully formed, they only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started" - Zuckerberg

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Great high-level explanation for history of deep learning: https://t.co/tMllAfD3nJ

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No built-in JWT token refresh in Auth.js? Users just logout after a month by default? What a joke ...

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Auth.js is probably the most painful library I had to work with. Incomplete getting started guide, breaking changes between versions. Just kill me instead

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You can get yours at https://t.co/VfqLRgUxW7

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Added a 3D visualization to my Github profile!

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Very long but super interesting
https://t.co/C65ZXZvWxp

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Running postfix mail server with SPF, DMARC and DKIM was the most cumbersome part of setting up my own server

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Started doing Advent of Code 2024, one small programming puzzle every day: https://t.co/VNE7kQlsoX

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A marker of good parenting is that your child doesn't have any wish to be famous - Alain de Botton

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GoDaddy was asking $21.99 to renew a .com domain. I have several of them. Transferred to Cloudflare which does at-cost renewal at $10.44. GoDaddy's 100% margin is insane.