Notes from the build.Yapım sürecinden notlar.
A small journal — the patterns we keep coming back to, the things we shipped this month, the ones we shipped and regretted, and the engineering decisions that pay rent. Honest > polished. Aylık küçük bir günce — tekrar tekrar başvurduğumuz örüntüler, bu ay neyi gönderdik, neyi göndermesek de olurmuş.
The full journal.Tüm günce.
Three categories: Essays (long form, opinions), Notes (short observations, patterns), Field reports (project diaries). Filter below.
Technical debt: what it really costs your business
Technical debt is the bill for every 'we'll fix it later.' What it is, where it comes from, what it really costs your business, and how to manage it.
Off-the-shelf or custom software? An honest comparison
Off-the-shelf is fast and cheap — until your business stops being standard. When to buy a package, and when custom software actually pays off.
The operator vocabulary wins — every time.
Six years and forty projects in, the single biggest predictor of an ERP that gets used is whether the words on the screen are the same words the team already uses on the floor.
Six months inside a foundry: what Foundry OS learned the hard way.
A field report from the first six months of a vertical ERP running inside a working Turkish foundry. The features that survived, the ones we re-built in week two, and the one schema decision we still defend.
Why we still pick PostgreSQL over the new thing.
The vector database that ate Twitter last summer is now quietly running PostgreSQL underneath. Here's why we keep coming back — and the four extensions we always reach for.
Honest > polished — what we actually mean.
Every studio's About page says it ships honest, no-nonsense work. Most of them don't. Here's what 'honest over polished' looks like once you take it seriously: the things we say, the deals we refuse, and the deadline conversations that follow.