My name is Sinan.
I am currently busy trying to avoid success at all costs.
Recent Posts
I Blogged Every Day for a Month -- Again (31 May 2025)
Today marks the final day of my second month-long blogging challenge. The first was in August last year. This one, in May, felt different – but just as transformative.
Read more »Daily Z Reports and Weekly Reviews (30 May 2025)
This is not about improving productivity, but rather a simple but bottom-up hack to improve personal awareness and accountability and extend it to the team. Productivity should be a natural byproduct of that.
Read more »Cross-Compiling Haskell under NixOS with Docker (29 May 2025)
I learned how to cross-compile Haskell projects under NixOS using Docker images for ARM architectures, and how to run them under emulation on
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hosts.The Terminal State of Mind (28 May 2025)
I use the terminal. Not because I am a command-line wizard or particularly efficient with it, but because the GUI has never given me the rhythm and flow I need.
Read more »NixOS Rebuilds, Upgrades and Generation Diffs (27 May 2025)
Today, I upgraded my NixOS system to the latest version, v25.05. It went smoothly. I just want to report my experience here.
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