Mustafa Uysal

I'm traveling light, it's au revoir…

  • I came across a clever little trick someone wrote about recently: speeding up videos before transcribing them to save on costs. (OpenAI charges by the minute, so why not make those minutes shorter?) Ingenious. You’re not changing the content, just compressing the timeline so you extract the same value in less time.

  • I was reminded of this piece in a conversation earlier today.Reading it again just now, it hit differently — as it always does.

  • Yesterday, I came across a meme that really stuck with me… because it’s true. The improvements in AI both excite and scare me. For example, when my Copilot subscription expired last year, I initially thought I’d go back to the old-school way for a while. That lasted about a day. It had already changed the…

  • Hello, 33!

    As the Earth completes another orbit around the sun, marking yet another journey of 365 days, I find myself standing at the threshold of my 33rd year.

  • Bluebird

    I’ve released a new version of Handywriter today, now featuring recent Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities. The results are quite impressive. Here is the famous “Bluebird” poem by Charles Bukowski. (Maybe next time, it will sing “Famous Blue Raincoat” by L.Cohen?)

  • I took a stab at testing TiDB with WordPress today, but since the setup went past the famous five-minute mark, I’ve decided to jot down a note for myself and those who try to use TiDB with WordPress.

  • Happy 20th birthday, WordPress. We’ve known each other since around 2008, and I’ve been contributing in some way since 2011. Even though my contributions are often tiny, like a drop in the ocean, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to 43% of the web.

  • Yesterday I’ve upgraded one of my servers that is running on Ubuntu 18.04; since it’s reaching EOL it’s better to perform timely updates. While upgrading the OS, why not upgrade MariaDB, right? So, I’ve upgraded it to 10.6.12 and this morning realized that one of the sites has been ruined with messed up characters.

  • I launched NoCodeWP this week and have been sharing some random thoughts on no-code, WordPress, and other topics.

  • As I work on building nocodewp, I’ve realized there are many things to discuss regarding WordPress. I wanted to quickly share my thoughts on the importance of including pre-made modules, page templates, or blocks within WordPress products.