Ege Güneş
I know him from NowNowNow where I’m a fan of his very personal site.
Blogs in English because it has less baggage than Turkish.
Said even now meeting with me he’s more comfortable in English and would feel self-conscious if we were both speaking Turkish.
Nobody in Tűrkiye reads blogs - only social media.
So by blogging in English he reaches more people.
Readers of his English posts will know him better than Turkish friends that don’t read his posts.
He doesn’t keep a diary anymore, but if there’s an idea he wants to remember, he puts it on his blog.
Socialist.
The workers are always a majority over the employers.
Dad socialist and read a lot - books all around so he read and got into it too.
It was inspired by the socialist songs about the people and the movement and the spirit.
The songs got him into it.
He said, “I’m not trying to make the revolution. It won’t happen any time soon. I’m just doing the work so that the revolution can happen some day in the future.”
Russia helped Tűrkiye get its independence.
After WWI they provided arms against allies but Atatűrk wasn’t communist/socialist-minded.
Dad smoked now he smokes.
He was yearning for a cigarette before his first one.
Addictive personality he was into weed for 13 years and recently quit.
Kubernetes expert, especially around databases.
Works for a fully open source company set up by a Russian and Ukranian incorporated in US but ~300 people all over.
He works from home.
Going to New York City and Utah in a few weeks, for the Kubernetes conference.
Into clay sculpture.
Tried music, tried drawing, didn’t love it enough but clay sculpture clicked for him.
Loves the physicality of it.
Just got a turntable and did his 3rd sculpture.
Doesn’t want to code for a hobby.
AI made him turn a bit anti-tech.
Since it’s his career now he needs to use AI because it’s better at coding than he is, so to keep up productivity for work, he needs it.
Works mostly in Go and specializes in databases on Kubernetes.
Grew up in Izmir and it’s always been a kind of dangerous place.
Istanbul may have bad neighborhoods but they’re sequestered and you don’t accidentally stumble through them.
In Izmir the bad and good are interspersed so it always has risk.
He’s only lived on the European side of Istanbul, in Bakirkőy and it feels like the “real” Istanbul to him, as the Anatolian side makes him feel sleepy.
Though later he said if money was no object, a home in Caddebostan would be nice.