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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 02/06/2026

The past years have seen horrendous attacks towards trans people. We have a duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. There is no Haskell without the trans people who have shaped it through the years. This June is a month of celebrations, but the struggle continues. ✊🏳️‍⚧️λ

The trans flag with a greek lowecase lambda letter in black on it.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 30/05/2026

We’ve yet to see someone “build the thing” in a secure non-slopped way, why is everyone obsessed with “building the thing that builds the thing”

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 26/05/2026

I have some ramblings about markdown, hope I finish it as a blog post. But here is the gist.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 19/03/2026

First time seeing dhh88 not repackaging bad strategy as “our way of doing things” > The original concept for ONCE sought to sell self-hostable web apps for a one-time fee. That didn’t work. Sure, we recouped the investment on Campfire, our chat app, but that was it. world.hey.com/dhh/once-aga...

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ONCE (Again)

The original concept for ONCE sought to sell self-hostable web apps for a one-time fee. That didn't work. Sure, we recouped the investment on Campfire, our chat app, but that was it. You gotta listen ...

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 06/02/2026

Podcast episode descriptions are so much worse since LLMs.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 05/02/2026

Mac's config path convention is sooo awful. ~/Library/Application Support/the_tool/ I guess it could have been worse with something like ~/The Crib/AppLiCatIoN SuppOrt xD 😍/the_tool/

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 20/01/2026

> The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking [...] into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, [...] in the syntax of a programming language. Jason Gorman

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 08/01/2026

No way… I would fire my legal team, ai deep research would never be incorrect

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 01/01/2026

This quote is about writer’s block but applies here; Change your goal from “writing well” to “writing badly”. Switch from team "I will one day write something good" to team "I have no choice but to write a piece of shit".

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 27/12/2025

Reading summaries of medical research this morning. Almost all of them ends like this: Researchers forgot to do consider {important thing}. So this study may or may not be true. Who knows.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 30/11/2025

Life sucks a lot these days. 2025 crushed me economically.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 18/11/2025

Nerd sniped myself on this for 2 hours. But now I have reliable way of telling if a site is built with react or not.

$```js function isBuiltWithReact(){ return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('body *')) .some(el => Object.keys(el) .some(el_keys => el_keys.startsWith('__reactFiber') || el_keys.startsWith('__reactProps')) ) } ```$

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 15/11/2025

Caramelizing some onions right now, reminders to stir them

Screenshot of my terminal, using my `create-apple-reminder` script

```
~/Documents/notes main
❯ scripts/create-apple-reminder
Usage: create-apple-reminder <relative_time> <message>
Example: create-apple-reminder 5m Check db
~/Documents/notes main
❯ scripts/create-apple-reminder 15m "Onions"
reminder id x-apple-reminder://3CC2A906-BF8A-4690-9CCF-A857703CAC61
~/Documents/notes main
❯ scripts/create-apple-reminder 30m "Onions"
reminder id x-apple-reminder://B247E0AA-D245-4526-A8BB-040D0BB1EE00
~/Documents/notes main
❯ scripts/create-apple-reminder 45m "Onions"
reminder id x-apple-reminder://B53E0119-248D-4C3C-9DC5-7270DF052E8A
~/Documents/notes main
❯ scripts/create-apple-reminder 60m "Onions"
reminder id x-apple-reminder://93C9A8DA-4B9E-4AD4-B3D2-A5DB9403B40F
~/Documents/notes main
❯ scripts/create-apple-reminder 75m "Onions"
reminder id x-apple-reminder://338A6D19-DB83-4B2C-A8BF-82C7D474DB64
~/Documents/notes main
❯ scripts/create-apple-reminder 90m "Onions"
reminder id x-apple-reminder://64C71425-78CC-46E3-89B5-40A36525C2D8
~/Documents/notes main
❯ scripts/create-apple-reminder 105m "Onions"
reminder id x-apple-reminder://73FE0FB5-EC23-47F6-AA18-F5E3C002A469
````

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 13/11/2025

YCombinator’s Garry Tan acts like he has humiliation fetish on the bird app.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 09/11/2025

I think I found a 1.3x performance optimization in a rails method. I hope I can create a pr before losing the motivation/hyperfocus

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Musk gets his $1 trillion compensation package approved by Tesla shareholders. Shareholders in the room chant "Elon, Elon, Elon!"

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 26/10/2025

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

afomera.dev

Stop Giving Harm a Microphone

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 22/10/2025

Advice to toddlers on how to be a hustler

Blog post screenshot

ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADVICE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (WHAT I WISH
I KNEW)

I gave a talk about my experience as a founder with my son's high school Entrepreneurship class.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 19/10/2025

<about_xml_blocks_in_prompts> I don’t understand why did they train models for this. Markdown already has h2..h6 blocks, or define a new code block? </about_xml_blocks_in_prompts> Above opening and closing xml tags are not syntax highlighted in your editor btw

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 16/10/2025

Moving all my unfinished projects out of my sight except 2 or 3 of them. I’m going to try minimizing the WIP items in my life amap.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 14/10/2025

Investment lingo is wild. What’s a hurdle rate? Simple, it’s a comparison to IRR to […] What’s IRR? Internal rate of return. It’s discount rate that makes NPV of all cash flows equal to zero in a DCF analysis.

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 09/10/2025

this is a thing i've been thinking about for a while i do think that open source work is valuable. it's just not all roses, and the "yeah let's all do this!" energy of ten years ago hit the reality of this at some point

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 05/10/2025

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 01/10/2025

This was our style in prev job. Once you get used to it, there are benefits to it. I am not conservative to any idea that improves git diff

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 29/09/2025

How many pythons do you have in your pockets? ❯ brew list --versions --multiple python python@3.13 3.13.7 3.13.5 3.13.2 Note: I have never written python professionally.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 28/09/2025

[Beefs about andre from 2017 and earlier] > Anyways, that’s why I’m not rushing to take sides.

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 26/09/2025

It's easy to do this when his political opinions don't affect you or your friends. It's hard to just ignore when they do cause an impact. I'm glad I didn't get into Rails. If I did, I'd be finding a new framework.

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Jason @peregrine.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Environments change in ways you can't always control, but know what you can control? - Your reactions. - Your environment. It's not always easy to do this, but it is necessary if you want to have agency in who you are. Too many people exist in an environment they hate and let it change them with.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 25/09/2025

Dear Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, I am writing to report the inappropriate use of the Japanese term “omakase” by a Danish software developer who has been adding this culturally significant word to every shitty digital product he creates. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 24/09/2025

TIL about this linkedin checkbox, takes 2 seconds to make internet a better place. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

linkedin.com

LinkedIn Login, Sign in | LinkedIn

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 22/09/2025

Reverse job boards are shutting down

…..as if to emphasize the funding
struggles... Talent.io, once Europe's leading tech recruitment platform, filed for bankruptcy and was acquired by Davidson Consulting via commercial court proceedings in March 2025 - just after celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Founded in 2015, Talent.io quickly rose to prominence, with 175 employees across 5 countries, matching up to 200 software engineers/month with jobs at its peak. It was part of a wave of platforms that disrupted traditional tech hiring.
However, cracks started showing in mid-2022, or as co-founder Jonathan Azoulay wrote: "Then we went through what some VCs call 'The God Damn Cycle' " The post-COVID tech slowdown and VC funding freeze hit the sector hard.
Revenue plunged 80% in 18 months. Al changed hiring priorities, reducing the need for traditional coding roles. Competitors like Hired.com, Triplebyte, Vettery, and Honeypot also shut down. LinkedIn's Al-enhanced dominance further marginalized niche recruitment platforms.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 21/09/2025

Question for elixir folks I have an elixir project for doing bunch of file operations, eg open a random markdown file. It takes ~450ms, was escript wrong choice for this?

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 21/09/2025

Almost finished with the phoenix project book. Must read if you are into factorio I guess

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2025

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 16/09/2025

He is one step away from posting the 14 words, still no pushback from the community. Disgusting

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 16/09/2025

Meet @usetrmnl.com 's CEO Ryan Kulp. > last week in Amsterdam i mentioned to a friend on the street that Muslim refugees are ruining the continent and i made sure to say it loud enough for those around us to hear it. www.ryanckulp.com/how-to-stand...

Screenshot from blog post.

> it’s been said “we yell lies, but whisper truths.” last week in Amsterdam i mentioned to a friend on the street that Muslim refugees are ruining the continent and i made sure to say it loud enough for those around us to hear it.

sourced from: https://www.ryanckulp.com/how-to-stand-for-charlie-kirk/

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 27/08/2025

President of an occupied country values the bond between his nation and the evil occupying genocidal country.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 21/08/2025

In my job search, I’ve probably filled the same forms hundreds of times. Same with the visa application appointment. I thought I could automate most of it.

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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 16/07/2025

even by HN standards this is an all-timer

screenshot of a Hacker News post complaining that Svelte is 'woke' because it emits accessibility warnings. It reads:

Why does svelte have to be this woke? Please let me write this first, i will figure out accessibility on my pace, svelte be like no, do this or we are not going to let you do it at all - we will fill your editor with warnings in a way that you can't see anything.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 17/07/2025

I don’t know why, but companies are much willing to hire contractors from Poland.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 14/07/2025

Got rejected again after 5 interview calls. One of the feedback items: “I’ve talked negatively about AI”

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 03/07/2025

Today’s example: I have a systems design interview with this company how should I prepare. My expectations from Claude: Searches Reddit, blind, Glassdoor comments. Claude research: Hmm company uses Ruby on Rails. Let me search what is rails. Let me fetch company’s privacy policy.

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Berkan🇵🇸 @berkan.dev · 23/06/2025

@peregrine.bsky.social Hi, I've tried subscribing to your rss and got 500 error. Telling you just incase you are not aware jasonstiebs.com/rss

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