mfyz - A digital creator: Fatih Yildiz's notes on software engineering, ai, digital design, product and project management

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2024

A quick way to tweak CDN/Edge TTL to radically improve site performance (and SEO)

Portainer + gitops ❤️: A simple way to deploy and manage your self-hosted applications

Animating systems diagrams with draw.io

WordPress Headless + CPT + ACF: Building a Flexible Content Platform

Leveling up Data-Driven Product Development game using Posthog

Metrics to pay attention to, when optimizing web page performance

Cronicle: My new Go-To Task Scheduler (+ it’s Open Source)

NocoDB - Open source Airtable, a rich admin tooling with OOTB rest API to your DBs

Secure Your Applications and Access to Services Using Cloudflare Zero Trust

2023

Creating sequence diagrams using mermaidjs to map out your user journey

2022

Editing and previewing Mermaid diagrams on your docs (markdown, github, notion, confluence)

dotfiles method to sync your command line configurations between machines

Simple Gitlab CI/CD Deployment via SSH+RSYNC

Create quick diagrams and Wireframes using Excalidraw + VSCode

Better CMD+R - Improved command line history using Atuin

Github page is the most important place as a developer and here is why it is so important

How Google had almost 10 years' head start on voice assistants and lost its competition to Amazon

Portable Wordpress with SQLite instead of MySQL

Remove unused CSS with PurgeCSS

Optimize your bundle size by eliminating dead code / tree-shaking in Webpack

Better webpack build outputs with webpack-dashboard

At least do this for securing your Wordpress site as a quick win, use Wordfence

Easy WordPress backups using Updraft

Analyze and Optimize Webpack Bundles Size and Contents

Using wp-rocket to speed up your wordpress site

2021

Using rclone & cronjobs for simple server backup solution

My process of doing macOS clean (re)install twice on Intel and M1 Macbook Air - In search of better performance and clean start

Using Axe & React-axe to audit your web application’s accessibility

Static Site hosting with Cloudflare Pages

Intro to Cloudflare Workers

Create a website from Notion document collection with custom subdomain via Fruition in 10 minutes

No-jQuery Movement

Google Sheets + Zapier is a perfect gateway for quick integrations when bootstrapping a new tool/service

Get Google Sheets document content as JSON without Google API oAuth

Monitoring your microservice stack with simple ping health checks using Healthchecks.io for free

Hosting your own private npm packages with self-hosted npm registry using Verdaccio

Our git workflow at Nomad Interactive (branching, tagging)

Using Ant Design as our primary react.js UI framework

How to use Genymotion for Android testing (simulator/emulator) on macOS or Windows

Why we are moving from GitLab self-hosted to gitlab.com

2020

Using gitlab.com as your background workers using CI schedules

Mobile internet on budget - Using tripmode or little snitch on mac to control your bandwidth usage when doing mobile internet hotspot

Having reliable internet while travelling every corner of the world

iPad Pro + Raspberry Pi = Portable development environment on mobile

3 ways of redirections in react-router

Better code history with gitlinter / commitlinter

mfyz.com homepage design update

I used Windows10 temporarily for my work setup for 10 days after 10+ years of being apple ecosystem user - It was better than I expected...

Using Vercel (formerly Zeit/now.sh) for super-fast deployments

How Figma changed how we collaborate on our UX and UI designs

Using Airtable through its API programmatically, as (almost) remote database

Why every developer needs to know google sheets & excel programming

Just launched my newest product in ProductHunt: Sheet2Cal - Organize calendar events inside from your Google Sheets doc.

Smarting up google docs and sheets

Launch of my latest product Screenshot Tracker

Working with Memcache on your NodeJS app on Heroku

First Product Hunt

Smart(er) documents - Quip, Notion, Airtable, Coda or good old GDocs&GSheets

Living in the cloud as a developer

2019

Developing and Deploying Nodejs (Express) apps on Heroku

Importance of changelogs

Using Cloudinary for image cloud storage with image transformations in your NodeJS express app in Heroku

Single JavaScript file node/express/Instagram authentication (OAuth) and get user photos

WDS (World Domination Summit)

How I use Slack as my Dashboard

Why I don't like wearables? (that are attached to your body)

Analytics Data on SQL Database - Best database and table design for billions of rows of data

Make your car smarter with Automatic

Using Heroku for a quick development environment

Time to take a break from your computer

Work in a distraction free mode on your computer

Quick and dirty set up Graylog in 5 minutes with docker