Volkan Özçelik

@volkan.io

🎸 Geek, Streamer, Cloud Native Crazy Maker ☸️ 🐢 Keeping your secrets secret since 2022 ⚡️ 📡 https://spike.ist 🛰️ https://ctx.ist/ 🚀 👋 More About Me: https://volkan.io/

I didn't have three weeks to modernize 30 year old C++. Getting the 90s codebase to compile without razzle, using modern C++, not to mention hidpi was the kind of undertaking that previously took a team. Not an exaggeration. I wanted to be able to release a version that actually still ran.

I’m a neurological mess: I like change, I change everything; but I like stability. I like chaos, I enjoy chaos; but I like order. weird is good; I’m good with weird; but I like boringly normal. I depend on routines; but I intentionally break them. Dear ADHD, and Autisim: Can you get a room please!

Hello world. It's been a while. I am deep down working on really impactful stuff. Hence the silence. Hope everything well on the weird wide web :) .

Bsky is not logging in on mobile, and I'm too lazy to reauth. This limits me to the web version: Cannot be happier. 1. No stupid "would you like to enable notifications to pour more gasoline on your ADHD?" 2. No impulse to "just scroll." 3. total control. If I want to go to bsky, it's deliberate.

The deleterious effects of not having a hobby are becoming a defining point in this cultural moment—and who is poised to help? That’s right: the autistics. Job fair day where we all set up tables explaining our deep dives and give people a hand out, a path back to society.

The codebases that structure themselves for that reality will compound. The ones that do not will slowly become illegible to the tools they depend. Structure is no longer for maintainability. It is for reasonability. What 19 AST Tests Taught Us About Agent-Readable Code » ctx.ist/blog/2026-04...

Code Structure as an Agent Interface: What 19 AST Tests Taught Us About Agent-Readable Code - ctx: do you remember?

ctx provides temporal continuity across sessions

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