The Negation

My name is Sinan. This is my personal Website, where I occasionally write and otherwise try to avoid success at all costs.

Recent Posts

1. I Blogged Every Day for a Month – Again

   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.

   31 May 2025 Read more »
2. Daily Z Reports and Weekly Reviews

   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.

   30 May 2025 Read more »
3. Cross-Compiling Haskell under NixOS with Docker

   I learned how to cross-compile Haskell projects under NixOS using Docker images for ARM architectures, and how to run them under emulation on x86_64 hosts.

   29 May 2025 Read more »
4. The Terminal State of Mind

   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.

   28 May 2025 Read more »
5. NixOS Rebuilds, Upgrades and Generation Diffs

   Today, I upgraded my NixOS system to the latest version, v25.05. It went smoothly. I just want to report my experience here.

   27 May 2025 Read more »