Mustafa Uysal

I'm traveling light, it's au revoir… leaving my two cents here and there.

wordpress

  • Today, I’m stepping down from my role as a GTE (General Translation Editor) for the Turkish WordPress community, after a decade of volunteering. It started in 2016, shortly after I returned from WordCamp Europe in Vienna. Somehow, a decade has passed since then.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • I’m so tired of seeing shady marketing techniques around WordPress plugins. I’m writing this post about plugins particularly but the same thing applies to themes too.

  • I’m excited to announce a brand new caching plugin, Wonder Cache. It’s a simple yet powerful caching plugin. It powers and abilities include: superhuman strength and durability. It’s forked from Batcache. First of all, I want to highlight Batcache. It’s an amazing caching plugin that empowers WordPress.com around a decade. We definitely say it’s a…

  • Oh, Redis!

    Today, I was working on shifting our object caching backend to Redis at NefisYemekTarifleri. And, it didn’t go well.

  • As a challenging part of working at the NefisYemekTarifleri.com, first three days Ramadan is the busiest time for us. We get max requests during that period. So, I just wanted to highlight some stats for taking note to myself and sharing some stats about WordPress at scale.