Recently I’ve been getting back a bit dabbling around with electronics. Currently I specifically like to use the Sparkfun ProMicro, because of it’s on-board USB capabilities (more on that in a future blog post). (yeah, it’s a cheap clone I got from aliexpress) While setting up my Arduino IDE and playing around with it, I noticed that there are several ways that you can end up in a situation that makes it difficult to flash a new sketch to the board. Read more...

When I started this blog, I wanted to make a post of how I set it up. The time has come! Although I have to say, I kind of forgot what my pain points were initially, but I remember that I tried using “pure” GitHub Pages and Jekyll, and with both of them I wasn’t happy. What I wanted was: publishing by git posts as markdown a simple way to preview posts and the blog before publishing My solution now is using Hugo, another popular static site generator written in go. Read more...

Whenever I’m inside and I hear rain, it’s really calming to me. Even storms manage to bring me peace. Sometimes, when I have difficulties to sleep, and it’s not coincidentally raining outside, I might turn on some noise source. There are infinite options to choose from of course: iOS has it built in, there is airplane ambient noise readily available on Spotify and YouTube, and one of my favorites is the “Rain on a Tent” preset on mynoise. Read more...

When working with a PHP codebase I really like to use XDebug as a way to find my way around and getting a grasp on what’s going on. One thing that annoyed me a bit was that in order to inspect return values of methods, I had to assign them to a dedicated variable. This doesn’t sound like a problem, but there can be a bunch of reasons why you don’t want to change the code for this. Read more...

hello world, my name is Deniz :D and so far I spent an uncomfortably amount of time with computers and the internet during my life and it seems like that is not likely to change anytime soon. In the past I had several blogs. Sometimes on blogspot, sometimes self-hosted Wordpress instances, and sometimes something entirely different. But they all have one thing in common: they are lost in the sands of time. Read more...