My First Blog Post
This post is the first publish of mine which explains why I started this blog.
Ali Demir
I write about software, and about the systems people build around it.
This site is text and nothing else. No images, no tracking, no client-side JavaScript — every page is plain HTML that a person or a machine can read straight through. Each piece sets its own typography, derived from the shape of its own prose.
Recent writing
On deleting the image
A note on what happened to my writing when I removed the option of showing instead of telling.
What I check before shipping a site
A working checklist, refined over several launches, for the things that are cheap to verify now and expensive to discover later.
Serving Markdown alongside your HTML
A short, practical guide to giving every page a plain-text twin, and why that beats hoping a crawler parses your markup correctly.
Writing for machines that cannot see
Most of the web is now read first by something that will never look at it. That changes what a page owes its reader.