I'm a software developer who enjoys 
exploring all kinds of engineering and development;
reading, observing and tinkering.

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#computing
Lenovo Thinkpad x230(i5 3320M, 8G) - Libreboot, GNU GUIX
Lenovo Yoga 7i(i5 1335u 16G) - Fedora Sway Spin
Keyboard - Dactyl Manuform
Text editor - Neovim and trying doom emacs
Terminal - foot & tmux
Agentic - OpenCode
Browsing - LibreWolf & Vimium & DuckDuckGo

#reading
2025
COMPLETED
    Free Software, Free Society — Stallman
    Software Engineering — Sommerville
    Design Patterns — GoF
    Clean Code — Robert C. Martin
    Dive Into Design Patterns — Shvets
    Spring Start Here — Spilca
    Domain-Driven Design — Evans
    Data Structures & Algorithms — Wengrow

IN PROGRESS
    Spring Microservices in Action
    The Pragmatic Programmer
    Effective Java
    Effective TypeScript
    Designing Data-Intensive Applications

NOT STARTED
    Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
    Test Driven Development
    Algorithms — Sedgewick
    Grokking Algorithms

#bookmarks
ThePrimeagen
Technology Connections
Brodie Robertson
Low Level
Computerphile
David Bombal
bigclivedotcom

#reading-other
2026
    Mrs Dalloway, Woolf
    The Business of Living, Pavese
    Kırmızı Kahverengi Defter, Marmara
    Ah'lar Ağacı, Madak
    Grapon Kağıtları, Madak
    Selected Poems, Pavese
    Günlük, Atay
    The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Plath
    Ariel, Plath
    İnsanın Acısını İnsan Alır, Erbaş
    Aynı Yürek Lekesi, Erbaş
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume
    Being and Nothingness, Sartre
    Le Suicide, Durkheim
    Ruhun Olumsuzluğu Üzerine, Hume
    Tutunamayanlar, Atay