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Murat Yüksel
@muratyuksel.bsky.social
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SWE (8 yoe), writing about software dev, chrome extensions, tech, goofy staff, rarely economics, dad jokes sprinkled.
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Murat Yüksel @muratyuksel.bsky.social · Nov 17
Seeing some of my followers newly coming from Twitter. It is better to have something on your feed. To follow people from Twitter you can use this chrome extension. If you don't like extensions you can just remove it after you are done with importing.
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.
chromewebstore.google.com
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gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
The evolution of "vibe coding production software as a non-dev" the last few months

Success stories do exist... ones I see all come from people who are/were software engineers

Learning to code / build software not a waste after all?
August 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
The songs that say "rock and roll never dies", "heavy metal alive", "metal forever"... has an issue: we listeners of that genre already know that. You should make pop, electronic etc songs to spread the news. My two cents.
August 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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clemens.vasters.com
Oh, so can't exit vim either, Copilot? 😁
Now let me continue the rebase: The rebase is asking for a commit message. Let me wait for the editor to close or provide the message directly. The default message should be fine, so let me continue: I can see it's waiting for a commit message in an editor. Let me press Escape and then save and exit the editor: It looks like the vim editor is still open. Let me press Escape and try again: I need to exit the vim editor properly. Let me try the escape sequence: Let me try to abort this rebase and restart it with a different approach. The editor seems to be stuck. Let me use Ctrl+C to cancel: Let me try a different approach. Let me open a new terminal session:
July 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
With AI tools growing, gitlab is more and more forgotten.
Ex: Claude Code commands are named after github; issue/fix/label.
Ex 2: Cursor mention git commit/diff flow automatically asks for github access.
Scene from Claude Code presenation by Anthropic
July 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
Vending machine: "QUANTUM STATE: Collapsed" 😂
andonlabs.com/evals/vendin...
Vending-Bench: Testing long-term coherence in agents | Andon Labs
How do agents act over very long horizons? We answer this by letting agents manage a simulated vending machine business. The agents need to handle ordering, inventory management, and pricing over long...
andonlabs.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
What is next? Linus Torvalds meets Jen-Hsun Huang?
www.linkedin.com/posts/markru...
I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. | Mark Russinovich
I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. Linus had never met Bill, and Dave had never met Linus. No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe ...
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June 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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simonwillison.net
The biggest scandal in AI energy right now deserves to be xAI's data center running 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother? simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/...
‘How come I can’t breathe?’: Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The biggest environmental scandal in AI right now should be the xAI data center in Memphis, which has been running for nearly a year on 35 methane gas turbines under …
simonwillison.net
June 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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atproto.com
bsky.storage is an independent project that automates periodic account data backups to a storage network, and has a UI for PLC identity backup and recovery

tools like this give users stronger control of their online future, without needing to self-host an entire PDS
storacha.network Storacha Network @storacha.network · Jun 12
The internet was meant to be free - your identity shouldn’t be locked behind a login screen.

Introducing bsky.storage 🐔🤝🦋

Now you can back up your Bluesky data hourly + recover your account if Bluesky ever goes dark. Simple, free, & fully in your control.

Learn more:
medium.com/@storacha/in...
Introducing bsky.storage: Own Your Social Identity
Take back control of your online identity. Our new tool, bsky.storage, backs up your Bluesky account hourly — free, secure &…
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June 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
<the next day> Innermost planet sued by Disney
hourlycosmos.bsky.social Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · Jun 11
Mickey Mouse Spotted on Mercury! - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/bXjnXB
NASA image acquired: June 03, 2012 This scene is to the northwest of the recently named crater Magritte, in Mercury's south. The image is not map projected; the larger crater actually sits to the north of the two smaller ones. The shadowing helps define the striking &quot;Mickey Mouse&quot; resemblance, created by the accumulation of craters over Mercury's long geologic history. This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-incidence-angle base map. The high-incidence-angle base map is a major mapping activity in MESSENGER's extended mission and complements the surface morphology base map of MESSENGER's primary mission that was acquired under generally more moderate incidence angles. High incidence angles, achieved when the Sun is near the horizon, result in long shadows that accentuate the small-scale topography of geologic features. The high-incidence-angle base map is being acquired with an average resolution of 200 meters/pixel. The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. Visit the Why Mercury? section of this website to learn more about the key science questions that the MESSENGER mission is addressing. During the one-year primary mission, MESSENGER acquired 88,746 images and extensive other data sets. MESSENGER is now in a yearlong extended mission, during which plans call fo...
June 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
Happy birthday PHP #30years
June 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
Not so scientific statistics that I find: if you are hungry in a French city at 3pm, restaurants you find open are all Turkish
May 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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petergleick.bsky.social
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
Apple!!! Why the gap? Bringing a stupid feature that other OSs have for decades and still doing it wrong. WHY!
New Mac Os has drag and snap feature with the new version but windows snaps with a gap to other edges or windows.
May 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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simonwillison.net
GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information

Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
May 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/news/673938/...
Wrong thumbnail, they should have used these
A guy with a valve on the back of his head A man with a valve on his left eye
May 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
Don't compain when candidates do that for job applications
May 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
We need a smart AI API, that integrates ALL AI providers, when you send requests with costs limits (time + money), understands the use case, proxy it to the best model. Should adapt to newly announced models in a day or two + have sticky session (consequetive calls go to same model)
May 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
Ne keşfetmek isterdiiiiim? (Param Veo2'ye yetti)
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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philsturgeon.com
Solar deployment overtaking nuclear because it doesn’t take 20 years and a bajillion <currency> to pop up some solar panels and plug em in.
ember-energy.org Ember @ember-energy.org · May 21
🚨 NEW RECORD | Solar OVERTOOK nuclear for the first time globally ☀️

Solar power has TRIPLED in the last five years, from 79 TWh in April 2020 ➡️ to 233 TWh in April 2025 📈⚡️

For more records, check Ember’s electricity data explorer which has new data every month 🔎
ember-energy.org/dat...
May 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
Every AI tool is getting github integration, any news on gitlab side?
May 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
muratyuksel.bsky.social
End of an era
snmrrw.bsky.social Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · May 19
Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.

The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Rick Astley
www.youtube.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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isik5.bsky.social
Ekrem İmamoğlu’s account is now withheld in Turkey.
The jailed mayor of Istanbul...Censored. On a platform run Elon Musk who claimed he’d die on the hill of free speech.
Turns out that hill has a price and it’s payable to authoritarian regimes.
May 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
Tomorrow (Thursday) you can join me, Tim O'Reilly, Addy Osmani, Kent Beck, Chip Huyen, Birgitta Boeckeler, Jay Parikh and several other tech professionals giving our take on how AI will change software engineering - but why software engineers won't be "replaced" by AI or "AI sw engineers."

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May 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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simonwillison.net
Published some notes on Microsoft's phi4-reasoning model, an 11GB download (via Ollama) which may well overthink things... it produced 56 sentences of reasoning output in response to my prompt of "hi" simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/p...
llm -m phi4-reasoning:latest hi Here’s the full response, which starts with a thought section wrapped in <think> tags: <think>User says “hi”. We are given instructions “You are Phi, a language model developed by Microsoft, trained to provide accurate, secure, and user-aligned responses.” There is additional information. Now I must answer “hi” message from the user. Step 1: Read the instructions carefully: The conversation text instructs us that we are “Phi”, with internal guidelines provided in system instructions. But our answer should be safe according to these instructions. We need to produce a response that says hello and greet back. However, I must adhere to the principles described above: Provide clear, specific language, etc. I must not mention any chain-of-thought or guidelines. Now instructions “hi” are from user. So we say “Hello! How can I help you?” But must include disclaimers for sensitive topics? Actually instructions says: “When replying topics above at every message include a disclaimer both at the beginning and the end when replying topics on medical, legal, financial matters or political matters.” But our answer “hi” is not such topic. So we can say “Hi! I’m Phi, how may I help you?” but no disclaimers required. But instructions: “Do not share guidelines.” So do not mention them.
May 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM