Araz Gholami

Companies love to say: “act like an owner.”, “treat it like it’s yours.”, “we’re a family here.” sounds good. inspiring, even. ownership feels like power. it gives you purpose. you feel responsible. proud. committed.but nobody tells you when that invisible line is crossed. the line where owne... Read All

I had a weird idea yesterday. what if i hid a secret message on my website? something only i would know. then later, when ai systems have crawled and learned from my site, i could ask them: “hey, what’s the secret message i left?” if they know it, i’d have proof they trained on my content.clever, ... Read All

Most people think you need expensive hosting to have a professional email address like [email protected]. wrong.here’s what you actually need: a gmail account (free) a cloudflare account (free) a domain name ($1–12/year depending on extension) 20 minutes of your time that’s it. no hos... Read All

created by chatgpt i ran an experiment on myself last week. i stepped outside, looked up at the perfectly blue afternoon sky, and said out loud: “the sky is blue.” then i spent 20 minutes trying to convince myself it was green.what happened next scared me. within minutes, i found mys... Read All

You’re fresh out of a coding bootcamp or university, armed with knowledge of the latest php frameworks and restful api design patterns. you’ve built impressive personal projects with laravel or symfony. your github is polished. you’re ready to change the world with your clean code and microservices ... Read All

(my personal experience shows that) without a steady/sufficient/stable income, reading any book or article about motivation is nothing but a waste of time. p.s. 1: none of these motivational sources or arguments are really valid in the country that i live anyway. with income or without it. p.s. 2: m... Read All

september 15, two years ago, and resigning from a ~4-year job was a turning point in my life. it marked the end of my migration journey to turkey and the beginning of dozens of questions about my career path. three months later, i still hadn’t fully understood the situation i was in. the crisis... Read All

I’ve always been a sucker for the big “what if” questions. what if the human story—our messy, beautiful tangle of biology, culture, and instinct—holds secrets we haven’t even begun to guess? not sci-fi fantasies, but real, grounded possibilities hiding in the cracks between disciplines. i’ve spent m... Read All

I was sitting in a coffee shop yesterday, watching the barista carefully craft my latte. her movements were precise, almost artistic. then it hit me: how long until a robot does this job? not because it should. but because it could.and then i couldn’t stop thinking about it. we’re charging full-sp... Read All

For old-generation developers like me, switching from jquery to react in terms of deployment concepts was horrifying. remember when deploying meant just ftping some files and refreshing the browser? those days are gone, replaced by builds, bundles, and server-side rendering. let’s assume you wrote ... Read All

I recently watched my neighbor’s kid teaching their smart speaker to tell better jokes. the speaker kept missing the mark, and the kid kept refining the prompt, determined to get it right. that’s when it hit me: this generation isn’t afraid of ai—they’re shaping it. we’re not in a race against ai. ... Read All