Mustafa Uysal

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  • Wait a second, I know the synthesizer, Why don’t I use the synthesizer?

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    You know that legendary Giorgio Moroder moment “Wait a second, I know the synthesizer. Why don’t I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future?” Well, I had my own Moroder moment. Except, for me, it wasn’t a synthesizer.It was my Oculus VR headset, gathering dust on my shelf, looking futuristic and mostly…

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  • Bending Time (Sort Of)

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    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.

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  • Uneasy Thrill of AI

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    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…

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  • Hello, 33!

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    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.

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  • Bluebird

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    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?)

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  • Happy 20th birthday WordPress!

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    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.

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  • MySQL/MariaDB Character Problems: latin1_ to utf8_

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    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.

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  • A Tweet turned into a Product: Handywriter

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    I’ve launched Handywriter today. It’s been one of my favorite tools in WordPress since I built it. It’s a good feeling to be a consumer of your own product. And, Handywriter is not an exception, it helps me a lot while blogging.

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  • Overthinking is a hell

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    I’m struggling with overthinking a lot these days. And it’s not easy to deal with overthinking when you have an engineering mindset.

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  • Hello, 31!

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    This year was like a roller coaster for me. Ups and downs, decisions, and changes…

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