Ubuntu 4.10 was my first go-to Linux distro, I have never changed to another distro besides some trials — In year 2022, my go-to distro changed to Fedora 35, not because of Linus Torvald’s favorite but Nick is my spokesman for many whys. Especially last 7 years, people know me as Apple person in my jobs. There were many reasons to be an Apple person at that time because: …

I was a big fan of remote or hybrid working until the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, pandemic changed everything — 6:00AM in the morning, my gentle phone alarm’s ringing (the song of Idiot Abroad). I am waking up, taking a shower, having minimal breakfast and taking some vitamins. After having some fun of open air, I am entering my cave, closing the door and the marathon begins. I am leaving…

I was extremely excited about the sneakers because of its environmental friendliness and comfort, but I couldn’t get what I was expected. Here is why — I don’t like full white sneakers as well as white sole. It is about choice and taste because I don’t like to have 1000000 sneakers to fit my wear. I basically have 3 sneakers: New Balance 990v5 for all seasons Adidas (forgot the model) Gore-tex for winter

Why you shouldn’t overlook clipboard management apps — We already have this functionality in Linux operating systems, but macOS is lacking a bit to use it. There are several ways to enable it and for me, Pastebot is a good choice currently. What is Clipboard Manager? Basically, whatever you copied (command + c), it is getting recorded to clipboard manager. It is…

I have been a longtime Google Search user, both in my private and professional life. I lost my trust of the results and don’t like the new search result page — I remember the day Google became great about search because just a few months ago, I sold my algorithm (Sindex — Search and Index) to another search engine which was parsing websites and trying to categorize automatically. I am talking about the year of 2001 and 2002.

I’ve been trying to deprecate my usage of Evernote for a long time — I am a longtime Evernote user, more precisely around 11 years. I always like to digitalize my life (scanning documents and searching inside them), take notes and planning the day. Evernote was great for my personal taste as its price was fair, searchable PDF and images, and there was no…

The most important lesson that Covid-19 Pandemic is taught: If you move away from nature, there will be a bill to pay — The most common and latest trend for especially Silicon Valley companies is to build a big campus, so employees can come, work, eat, do sports, take shower. There will be a less requirement to leave the office. On the other hand, the biggest problem was the place that you are…

Although this is a trend movement nowadays because of Joe Rogan’s weird podcast show, I decided earlier to leave Spotify and have done several times before. Here is why I am not using Spotify anymore and, currently, don’t think to return soon. — These reasons are my personal taste, I didn’t do any marketing and financial research to prove that the reasons are feasible. Podcast is so dominant in Spotify

Data obfuscation is a key concept of GDPR and other data privacy laws in general, but it doesn’t anonymize you as a person. Here is why, based on science. — I am in data domain more than a decade and currently working as Principal Data Engineer. I applied GDPR to 3 companies from scratch, and I am expert on data privacy topics. It is always a discussion what to do in technical way. There are several approaches if you would…