#culture

Technical communities, blogging, and the people who build things.

2026-08-22 The smartest man on the cinder #culture #vibecoding Ata Kuyumcu
Anti-AI anger runs hotter than its object. A Jungian read: shadow projection, a threatened persona, and both camps picturing the same burnt world.
2026-08-16 Open-sourcing a puzzle site without leaking the puzzles #devops #programming #culture Ata Kuyumcu
I open-sourced dailyprog under AGPL-3.0. The hard part wasn't the license, it was that the puzzle catalogue and hidden tests are the answers, so they can't be public.
2026-07-18 The fediverse was right #culture #web #vibecoding Ata Kuyumcu
Federated services are the only escape from corporate platforms and lonely self-hosting. ActivityPub works. Git forges are next. AI just made protocols cheap enough to iterate on.
2026-06-10 Rebuilding my blog with machines, for machines #culture #web #vibecoding Ata Kuyumcu
I rebuilt this blog with the same URLs and markup, plus a JSON-LD graph on every page and microformats on every element. For the machines.