Burak Özdemir

When Claude Code goes down I turn into Charles Barkley in Space Jam.

Cloudflare Registrar is perfect until you need to update the contact information for your domains and find out that no bulk edit is possible.

I have a PHP package for color conversion (ozdemirburak/iris) which has been downloaded more than 1.5M times.

It never had a website, and I finally created one using Livewire and deployed with Laravel Forge.

Looks like I wasted so much time doing things the vanilla way before.

Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

My guess is this change came after a lot of people started building AI apps on the Spotify API, especially AI playlist builder apps.

I built my dream Spotify playlist sorter, only to find out Spotify changed its API so I cannot make it available to anyone else.

I found a solution to this thanks to a suggestion from a friend of mine. Claude Code has hooks you can use.

Now, whenever Claude finishes a task, a small macOS hook (via osascript) fires a system notification. No more "I will just check social media for a second" and forgetting I even ran it.

The biggest productivity issue with using Claude Code or similar AI coding tools is opening Bluesky while waiting for it to finish, then losing a lot of time and forgetting that the tool has finished the task.

OK Computer is probably the best album that humanity has ever witnessed. I would send another Voyager with a golden record just to let the aliens know about this.

If my terminal window is not 80x24, I feel mildly disturbed.

Surprised to learn iOS does not include Serbian as a primary system language, despite over 10 million speakers.

Source: https://caniuse.com/?search=oklch

I was not aware that color-mix() and OKLCH are supported by only around 91% of users worldwide.

That means if you are using a fancy modern CSS stack with Tailwind 4, roughly 1 in 10 visitors may not see your site correctly.

I am pretty sure most people do not realize this.

Source: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/large-sitemaps

TIL that you can use a gzip compressed sitemap with a .xml.gz extension.

Perfect, thanks a lot.

Cmd + Shift + T does not revive tabs in Chrome incognito mode, but it works perfectly in Firefox private browsing. Not sure which one's "right" in terms of the UX but I love Firefox.

Coldplay albums after Viva La Vida are like decaf coffee served in a fancy mug.

Google's web calculator returning Infinity for 171!

TIL that it is not that easy to calculate beyond 170! with JavaScript as it uses IEEE 754 double-precision floats (max is 1.8×10^308) by default, so 171! overflows to Infinity.

Even Google Calculator hits the same limit.

Commas and decimals are still a pain when working with HTML number input across multiple locales.

Why are indie hackers still so obsessed with web directories, like it's 2000s?

I've never seen any SEO benefit from submitting to them, am I missing something?

And if it's all about DR, that can only be a gatekeeping metric to keep out new competitors.

I bought a nice .com domain, but when I searched it, Google SafeSearch flagged it.

Then I found a Facebook page sharing adult content that links to one of this domain's subdomains.

I'll probably try a new strategy, as domains with a history like this never worked for me before.

Most pSEO sites I check follow the same pattern. They start strong, then decline dramatically.

Without authority or brand recognition, that drop is inevitable, yet some still ignore this.

In 2025, you're better off building authority than creating more pages.

Another great radio station for programming is Groove Salad by Soma FM.

Their other channels, like Indie Pop Rocks! and Deep Space One, are also worth checking out. They helped me discover a lot of new music.

Probably it is. Will share my feedback soon.

Gambling on papal conclaves - Wikipedia

TIL that gambling on papal elections is a centuries‑old tradition dating back at least 500 years, and until 1918 it was an excommunicable offense.

Animation A fast and versatile JavaScript animation library

Their documentation page is also on a completely different level. animejs.com/documentatio...

Claude 3.7 is really not that good, with many times reiterating the same things over and over. I still don't understand how 3.5 was that good and 3.7 feels like it went back.

However, you should try o3 as well. It is really perfect.

In my experience, I've seen that "alternative to competitor" pages mostly work if the competitor is already being searched by their brand name on Google (has enough search volume).

However, never heard of it coming directly from the competitor though, interesting strategy.

o3 is the best model I've tried to date for coding.

It solved a problem I had been trying to figure out how to solve effectively for a long time.

No other LLM could handle it before like I wanted, yet some deleted or implemented the same methods.

Possibly, the only time you might not want to be right is when your AI model says, "You're absolutely right" after deleting code it should never have touched, and you still have to stay calm while pointing out its mistake.

I'm going to try Astro soon, as I'm always seeing it on Reddit and would like to try it for shadcn.

But to be honest, Laravel powered Jigsaw, which is also a static site generator, is such an underrated framework.

I've never seen anyone talking about it, and I really like it.

Radio Paradise is one of the best things that helps with programming.

No need to worry about trying to find tunes or skipping, which may be a distraction while coding.

I have been listening to them for a long time, and I have also discovered so many new songs thanks to them.