The conversation has shifted away from PHP to JavaScript and Python. Does PHP still matter? — A Brief History of PHP PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. Lerdorf developed a bunch of scripts to track the visits to his online resume and named them “Personal Home Page Tools,” which then evolved into being called “PHP Tools.” …

A practical guide for setting up Pi-hole for a privacy-focused home network. I need to start this article with some simple disclaimers: I love Raspberry Pi, I love Docker, I don’t love networking that much (spoiler alert: I suck at it). I love Raspberry Pi because it is a tiny…

I should have a base test suite that can run without an internet connection, and it should be super fast. Both of them, at the same time. — Laravel has been my go-to framework for all of my side projects thanks to its ease of use, but while integrating Cashier into Nana recently, I have seen that there is no easy way of testing the subscription creation flows when using Cashier. …

A comparative analysis of two great languages with regards to their features, communities and industry position. — The comparison of Python and R has been a hot topic in the industry circles for years. R has been around for more than two decades, specialized for statistical computing and graphics while Python is a general-purpose programming language that has many uses along with data science and statistics. …

There is always a need for fast prototyping when it comes to data science solutions. Be it a sophisticated face recognition algorithm or a simple regression model, having a model that allows you to easily test and validate ideas is incredibly valuable. Many data science problems out there require specially…

No servers to manage, no maintenance, deploy and forget. I think I found a valid use-case for Lambda. Since its launch towards the end of 2014, Lambda has created a lot of hype, and more importantly, brought the term “serverless” into the industry. At its core, “serverless” does not mean…

Alright, we get it, “cloud” is the future and we need to use containers with all the fancy tools it offers. We are going to containerize our app, use container orchestration tools for deployments, and we have to install Docker. What is a container? Remember the good old times where you used to SSH…

I thought I had a smart solution to an ancient problem, which turned out to be a stupid engineering quest. I used to live in a not-so-nice neighborhood of Istanbul since I was born, and there would be burglary incidents every once in a while. Also, we were living in…

I’d expect a senior engineer to be a technically capable individual who thinks and understands human psychology, has good self-motivation skills that would ignite the team motivation as well and is dependable. …