44
Today, I officially turned 44, as being an entrepreneur. Let me briefly walk you through what happened and how it got here.
Murat Çorlu
Web Developer, founder of synapsmedia.com
Socialize like it's 70s!
Did you know getting live updates from user profiles was a thing even before the internet?
ghost
Ghost Theme Editor
From shaping the idea to shipping it in hours
ghost
Fedi.pub - Create public profile links for your Ghost ActivityPub handle
Sharing Ghost ActivityPub links was tricky. Until now... Use fedi.pub to make your Fediverse account more reachable.
Programming
Hidden Power of Bitwise Operators
Don't run away when you see a bitwise operator. Someday one would save your day.
Programming
How many displays are enough to be a good developer?
I think everyone knows that you are not senior enough if you have less than 3 displays on your desk, right?
ghost
Adding Ghost Social Web notes to your website
Starting from Ghost 6, we have "Notes" in addition to posts. Here is a way to show them in your website for public visitors
A tribute to Squoosh and Icomoon
The tools I had fun to use and the one I couldn't find
css
Pure CSS background image slides
Sliding photos in the background with nice transitions can be done with pure CSS, without sacrificing anything.
docker
Docker Healthcheck without curl or wget
I use official Docker image of Ghost to deploy my Ghost websites. I use docker swarm for orchestration and I need to have a healtcheck to have zero-downtime upgrades. Common way of doing this using curl to make a request to a convenient URL to check if Ghost is
design systems
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.
Today I Learned
#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 @murat@muratcorlu.com). 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