A Pledge for Namespace Directives in C#

TradeNet (later TradeSoft), the company I worked for back in 2000 had me enrolled in a .NET Early Adopter Training Program which taught…

Transitioning to Nullable References

So you plan on switching to .NET Core 3.0 but you’re not sure if you also want to make use of the new feature called “nullable references”. Yes, it is a great feature in terms of preventing bugs and crashes so you should be using it, but how should you approach switching to it?

Operating Systems

Why are x86 and x64 named as such?

This is the slightly edited version of my answer on Quora from 2019.

A Critique of The Night King

WARNING: This article might contain spoilers from Season 8 Episode 3 of Game of Thrones.

PowerShell Accidentally Created A Nice Configuration Format

Setting up my Windows PCs from scratch is a pain in the ass. I wanted to automate some of the mundane tasks and it turned out to be a…

The Tablet That Has Never Been: Surface Pro 6

My personal experiences with Surface Pro 6

Operating Systems

Is Windows becoming more like Unix, or moving away from it?

This was my answer on Quora. I moved it here.

Why isn’t ‘nil’ treated as ‘false’ in Go?

Another day, another question got downvoted, closed, drawn and quartered by StackOverflow moderators for obscure reasons. So here I am…

.NET MVC Must Earn the Price We Pay

Note: This is an article I wrote back in 2016 but stayed in my drafts. Although .NET MVC Core is a significant leap from .NET MVC now, my…

Tabs vs Spaces: Towards a Better Bike Shed

Completely unbiased and objective review of using tabs vs spaces in programming, and why spaces are clearly superior.

How did I learn assembly?

This was my answer on Quora. I moved it here.

Trolls Don’t Exist

I’ve been part of online communities since BBS forums sprouted in Turkey back in the mid-90’s. The most popular one was called HitNet. It…