You might have noticed that I haven’t blogged a long time. The reason behind me postponing the new stuff at Monofactor is that I have been busy at Udemy, the awesome online education startup which contracted me by Jan.

While originally living in Istanbul, Udemy crew needed me here in San Francisco for a couple months, giving me the chance to visit San Francisco for the first time and the amazing people in it. It’s only been a month, but I’ve already met so many kick ass people from the industry, not to mention the super stars in the office I work with at Udemy.

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“Design is not just how it looks. It’s how it works” he said. One of the many things he thaught me. Whilst sadly expecting the end for him was soon, I now can hardly take it.

It’s amazing how a man you don’t actually know can teach and impress so much on you. This is how a single man can change the world. He is no Marx, he is not Einstein, or Washington, he is not Ataturk.

He is one different man lived every moment of his life to deliver different and beautiful things to the world. Even for the money, Steve Jobs did it right.

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The previous article was about 2 years ago, and I’m sorry about that delayed follow up:). On that one, I told my story of why freelance.

We’re slowly getting into How. For starters, the choice of going freelance is not just about life style is it? It’s also about money.

We do this to gain a decent individual income and if possible, an income that is recurring. For that, we need clients. But when I say clients, I’m talking about people with minds and quality. That’s also what they seek on us, don’t they?

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Back in my pc times (which feels like ages ago), I was very much enjoying Dreamweaver. After switching into Mac and beautiful OS X, Dreamweaver, especially the OS X version started to seem too complicated, horrid to my eyes.

In Between Coda & Espresso

In search for a code editor, I came by Coda. A very beautiful development tool with a streamlined interface. Installed it, started using. Fun.

But hey, why did hitting tab on a code block just did erase all lines instead of tabbing/indenting them? What the hell? Turns out I need an extension to tab code blocks. Fine. How about code folding? No? Well, bye.

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Wow, 3 years ha. Putting aside the sad fact that I’m getting older, it feels like yesterday when I published the 4th version back in 2009.

It’s funny how a web designer gets incapable of redesigning/updating his own website out of whatever reasons. But if you’ve been following me, you’d know that I have been really busy in the past 3 years. So busy there were times I could hardly allocate a moment to take dump. I kid you not.

Righteously, most of my blog readers started to poke me for when I will publish new stuff and follow ups of my articles.  Eventually, Monofactor’s delayed blog update periods and inactivity for too long did start to hurt me. After all, this site is like my other girlfriend.

And you can’t ignore a girlfriend for a long time, I mean not for 3 years. So baby, how about a fresh start?

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Twitter API is really busy lately.

That causes delays and performance problems when you try fetching tweets with Twitter API via JSON or other methods.

For that matter, my sidebar tweets widget uses jQuery preload to prevent my whole site to hang until the widget gets a response from Twitter API. But then again there are times that widget gets stuck with the preload phase.

The good news is Yahoo has a great tool that pulls the tweets of a user and swipes @usernames and @comments and returns a clean feed with a fast response.

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