Hey, I am Burak!
This is a little corner of the internet where I leave pieces of myself. I am a Software Engineer living in Berlin. thoughts is my microblog (like tweets) and probably where I will post most often. posts are longer, old-school blog articles. I will likely publish these much less frequently. photos is where I occasionally share pictures I take. How often? Time will tell.
the mystery of sunday evenings
hits so hard once it passes 8 pm
no screen brings any joy
productivity is not even an option
the mystery of sunday evenings
doesn't matter if you are on vacation the next day
doesn't matter if you are in istanbul or berlin
doesn't matter if the lights are yellow or white
the mystery of sunday evenings
I have known this feeling since I was 7
being 30 hasn't changed shit
only taught me to stop fighting it
the mystery of sunday evenings
is it the curse of the gregorian calendar?
or do the persians and ethiopians feel it too?
even time itself isn't fixed
I just finished the latest season of "silo". these days, I have been recommending it to anyone looking for something to watch. I think it is a show that offers a lot of interesting insights into human nature and society from many different angles.
I keep seeing ads for europe's payment system WERO everywhere and it makes me happy. even though it is not exactly a card network and there is a fair chance it could fail, at least there is an initiative.
the fact that in 2026, most payment transactions across europe are still going through visa/mastercard, that the united states benefits from a portion of every payment and could take europe back to the stone age by cutting it off from these networks is pretty wild.
it needs to become widespread as soon as possible and regulation should push it along a bit (the one thing europe is really good at).
While geeking out over a function that generates a random number during my university years, I was surprised to learn that it is actually impossible for…
