I have been looking for new ways to adapt to the technologies that I want to learn and speed up the building process of my side projects which I go mostly full-stack. One evening I have come up with this little idea to bring to life, meet Bucketmap.

I knew it is very helpful to practice what you learn on something that you are interested in, and I have been passionate about the idea of bucket lists for a while, visualizing things in general, and maps all the time! …

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for — and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool — for love — for your dreams — for the adventure of being alive.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Hi, I’m Ebru.

This will be a story of my past few years and you will know me a little bit better than only me being a software engineer at the end…

Almost one and half years have passed as a newbie in the professional software development world. Full of laughs, regrets, achievements, failures, the technical words that I have heard for the first time… Here are some notes that I have taken along the way to remind myself how the journey itself was.

It is okay to feel down sometimes. It was probably the biggest lesson that I have learned.

Dependency injection. I have come up to this term in a very strange way and I believe it will be a life-changing moment for my professional life. …