Design Systems

I have been busy working on Design Systems since I started working on Baklava, open-source design system that we developed at Trendyol. Working on an open-source design system in an enterprise company has many challenges. And checking good examples is one of the best opportunities you would have. I left

#TIL - Reddit provides RSS feeds

After big drama on Twitter last year, I stopped using it and moved to Mastodon for microblogging (murat@synaps.space). But I then realised that I was learning a lot from the tweets from the people that I follow (most of them left Twitter anyway). Some friends suggested to use

#TIL - envsubst command

I was doing some bashscript work to generate yaml files from simple templates to be able to use in GitLab CI jobs. First thing that I did was using sed command and replaced variables in yml like this: sed "s/\${SERVICE_DOMAIN}/$SERVICE_DOMAIN/g; s/\${SERVICE_NAME}/$SERVICE_

#TIL - Plot by D3 creators

Years passes but my search for a simple and good chart library was always there. Today, I -again- came to the point to write my chart with D3.js but then I met with Plot. Observable PlotThe JavaScript library for exploratory data visualizationObservable Plot is chart library built on top

#TIL - Docker based static site hosting solutions

As a frontend developer, I deployed hundreds of static website projects until now on tens of different providers including GitHub/GitLab pages, Netlify, Surge.sh, Firebase, AWS S3 (+ Cloudfront) and also my very own domain to path redirected Nginx server. They are all good services but either expensive or limited

#TIL - Op3.dev

OP3: The Open Podcast Prefix Project A project that can intervene your podcast media files and generates public download stats by completely free. Apparently it works with the support of some sponsors and they also share their Cloudflare invoices (It's around $700/m currently). I would expect that

#TIL - ZeroSSL

Free SSL Certificates and SSL Tools - ZeroSSLFree SSL certificates issued instantly online, supporting ACME clients, SSL monitoring, quick validation and automated SSL renewal via ZeroSSL Bot or REST API.ZeroSSL LogoZeroSSL I use LetsEncrypt for all of my projects since a while. But this week I learned that, LetsEncrypt

Health check for Ghost Docker deployment

I'm playing with Ghost for a while to host many websites as easy as possible. I'm a fan of Docker Swarm to manage a production environment that I can host many projects in an easy way. (For more details how to do that, you can check

CSS Day 2023 Notes

I joined CSS Day 2023 conference in Amsterdam. Here are some of my remarks about it

CSS isolation with Declarative Shadow DOM

The browser support for DSD is becoming increasingly widespread, and I believe that there are more use cases for it beyond just SSR.

Mocha.js equivalent of it.each

Mochajs doesn't have `it.each` but it's still possible to easily write repeating tests

Front-end may soon need new sub-disciplines

Backend effort on most projects is declining every day with the help of high abstraction by cloud services. We can already make complete client-side applications with dynamic and collaborated data by just using some public services (like Firebase or CloudKit). We can manage authentication without having any server to maintain.