Hi 👋
I’m Onur, I live in the Netherlands and I am currently working in banking sector. My background is in Computer Engineering, and I have been working for different sectors throughout my professional career. I’m currently working as a team leader and relentlessly learning new things with regard to hard and soft skills.
You can check my resume, my github.io page for more details about myself and what I’m up to these days.
🌱 I’m currently learning Azure DevOps, Java 11, Go, Kubernetes and whatever I just bump into.
I created a Youtube channel, and a podcast.
📺 Türkçe Kubernetes @ Youtube
🎧 Rota Hollanda @ Spotify
📫 Feel free to contact/connect on Linkedin.
Have a perfect day!!
Posts
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Wasting Time Makes Sense
I have been feeling Waste-of-Time trauma for some time and I think there are many people who also experience this.
When you hear people labeling activities like nonsense, not need it, waste of time, keep in mind that they shall not have the luxury of manipulating you about what makes you feel good. -
Island Effect
It’s been about 4 years since the last time I have been on an island. I was in Tahiti in 2018, since then no particular off-the-mainland experience was on my plate - if I don’t count Texel island visit in north-west of the Netherlands which did not make me feel different then being in the Netherlands at all.
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Saying No
Being unique species we humans are programmed to say “Yes”. But saying “Yes” all the time can become the mother of all evil for us. There is even quite a few movies on the subject. Jim Carrey’s “Yes Man” for example.
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Desparate Consumer Economy
It took quite a long time for mobile phones to become waterproof. Nowadays in the market, majority of the mobile phones are at least IPX7 or IPX67. Before sealing effectiveness of devices reached this level, as consumers when we accidentally pour water on our mobiles they became warranty void because manufacturers assumed it was a consumer problem when device gets wet.
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Another Completely New Language
English can stand as a difficult language for some people. Especially for people whose mother tongue is completely different than English. But for those who do not even have latin letters in their alphabet it can be damn hard. (I cannot even imagine)
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Awakenings
Last week I watched a 90s movie (based on a true story) named “Awakenings” which had two big stars in top cast; Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. I realized how long it had been since last time I watched a movie or a production that made me think about it this deep.
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Designing for understandability
Right after reaching a reasonable knowledge in a particular technology or framework, I generally try to read as many articles and watch as many sessions as I can on the internet to understand how people try to explain the basics.
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Those wire together will fire together
While learning English language, practicing via writing every word I learned again and again was the main exercise. English was a completely new language and words were so strange at first. Making it hard to remember how to write and spell as a matter of fact. I still have my old notebooks having hundreds of pages with words written 10s of times :)
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Testing matters, prerequisites matter more...
I used various thermos models in the past, which were not belonging to a specific or well-known brand.All of them were failing while keeping cold or hot for quite a time. Some of them even leaked liquid after using for a couple of months. When I go hiking with friends, the most important thing for me is drinking my tea while water is hot enough. So this huge problem made me consider buying a pretty-known thermal bottle.
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Unrestrained Creations
While reading news, I came across with Kowloon Walled City which exists no more.
After searching a little bit, now I know Kowloon Walled City was a huge concrete structure. Having working inner mechanisms, it was un-auditable, uncontrolled home for thousands. It had markets, ateliers, barber-shops inside. All located on maze-like narrow passages. It was unrestrained, so crime rate, corruption rate was high. -
Wish I was faster than a Bugatti Veyron
My indoor cycling automation script drove me crazy last week. I was conveniently pushing my cycling sessions and it was processing.
…then suddenly chart script produced a stupid visual for average km/h and maximum km/h. -
A Pattern A Day Series
“Once Is Chance, Twice is Coincidence, Third Time Is A Pattern.”
In everything that occurs in a repeated manner, there is a pattern. In software design, there also exist certain patterns. To be good at what we are doing as software engineers, it is better to understand which design patterns go best in which circumstances, and recognize when we see it. -
Clean Code
In an agile mindset, writing code using best practice approaches is not an easy thing to do. If we have time-constraint (we say that we are agile), it becomes a double-edged sword. We have to keep it quick and keep doing in ideal form. That is not possible, generally.
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Automation and Orchestration
Automation and orchestration are two domains those go hand in hand, however, shall not be mixed up. Sometimes we assume that we already know some concepts but when we just try to answer the simplest questions, unfortunately, we get confused.
In this short post, I will try to explain things starting with back to basics. -
Restoring the old dog
About 5 years ago, I bought my Marshall Major headphones while I was working in Sweden. It was a good deal for such a country with challenging weather conditions, keeping my ears warm and providing above average music quality.
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Indoor Cycling Automation
I personally like doing activities indoor and outdoor. My favorite outdoor activities are running, biking, hiking, windsurfing, kite-surfing. I switch between those due to the season. In summer times I tend towards water sports.
I’m a long-term member of a local sports center. -
How a precision misplace makes a hero?
Precision can make you lose millions in exchange.
Precision can cause you to lose your biggest customer.
…but what if it helps the creation of an iconic character?
We learn from our mistakes. When I was a junior developer, I remember my first precision misplace. It was going to cause one of the premium customers extra payment, but thank god it didn’t. -
8 fingers and a hat
Most of us will remember Chaplin. Especially while talking about black&white silent film era.
…but there was another man who made movies still worth watching.
He made around 200 movies in his whole career.
During the shooting of a movie, a real bomb exploded in his hand, causing him to lose two fingers, a burned face and damaged eyesight. It took months to recover and continue with the film. After that incident, he played with a prosthetic glove having artificial fingers for his missing ones. In most movies, it was hard to notice one of his hands was fake. -
Who to blame?
Every time our phone drops a call, we blame the carrier for an unstable network. Every time some good functionality on device saves our time, we thank our phone manufacturer.
Every time we wait too much in the queue at the government office, we blame the officer for working slow. Every time, we finish things swiftly in the same office (off-chance), we thank the fast government systems. -
Ruling Human Out
The Luddite uprising began in Nottingham around November 1811. The Luddite name was to come from Ned Ludd, a worker smashing a loom at his cruel master. His movement caused artisans to organize and become resisters after being threatened by machinery. These were a group of skilled people who are against modern age in Victorian England. They attacked and burned factories even did not hesitate to assault guards and soldiers.
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Best Shot
Famous entertainment systems’ producer Nintendo was a playing card producer once - Not only a playing card producer. They tried to address diverse sectors by opening hotels, taxi companies etc. Then in 1975, Nintendo moved to the video game industry.
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Renting My Apartment
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Selling My Motorbike
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