https://velitasali.com Personal website of Veli Tasalı - Software developer specializing in Android, React, TypeScript, and full-stack development. en-us https://velitasali.com/blog/development/circuit-sim-announcement https://velitasali.com/blog/development/circuit-sim-announcement Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:25:22 GMT I have been working on a new Circuit Simulator software, and it is ready for its first release. It is a complete rewrite of SimulIDE in Rust and QML. You can find the source code and build instructions here: https://github.com/velitasali/circuitsimulator. There are no prebuilt b… development https://velitasali.com/blog/development/a-new-hardware-solution https://velitasali.com/blog/development/a-new-hardware-solution Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:12:02 GMT I am working on a new project that I am planning to turn into a product. I will not provide details as to what it does in this post as I am still figuring out ways to move forward, but I can provide some details. It is going to be a hardware solution or possibly solutions. It wi… development https://velitasali.com/blog/development/how-to-optimize-ai-agent-output https://velitasali.com/blog/development/how-to-optimize-ai-agent-output Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:12:33 GMT Note: Due to progress LLMs made, this post no longer holds true. Nowadays I do almost everything with Claude Sonnet 4.6, and to be honest, I am usually satisfied with its output. Sometimes though, prompting Claude Code to make a change the way I want it becomes a task in and of … development https://velitasali.com/blog/development/github-build-failed-notications-are-lovely https://velitasali.com/blog/development/github-build-failed-notications-are-lovely Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:21:43 GMT Imagine this: I am actively browsing the web UI of GitHub. I am in the Actions tab of the repo I am working on. It is going fine. Then the build fails, now I get a notification and an email. I am actively seeing what is happening, mind you, so any notication is practically usele… development https://velitasali.com/blog/development/introducing-instancebul https://velitasali.com/blog/development/introducing-instancebul Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:57:32 GMT A wordplay on "instance" + "Istanbul" + "bulmak" (Turkish: to find) I'm excited to announce Instancebul, a lightweight Windows utility that brings instant app switching to your fingertips. Press a hotkey, and your app appears. No more Alt+Tab hunting, no more clicking through th… development https://velitasali.com/blog/development/the-state-of-javascript-ecosystem https://velitasali.com/blog/development/the-state-of-javascript-ecosystem Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:55:04 GMT For most programming languages, I have an approach that works, so I rarely need to revise my methods. For JavaScript, however, the dust never seems to settle, and it feels like there will always be a gotcha I never see coming. In this post, I wanted to compile a list of things I… development https://velitasali.com/blog/fun/my-favorite-game-death-stranding https://velitasali.com/blog/fun/my-favorite-game-death-stranding Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:41:24 GMT A word of warning: This post contains spoilers for Death Stranding. If you haven't played it yet and think you might someday, close this tab and go experience it yourself. The Long Road to Playing It When Death Stranding launched in 2019, I didn't own a PlayStation. So I did wha… fun https://velitasali.com/blog/development/my-opanyo-ov-ai-agents-changed https://velitasali.com/blog/development/my-opanyo-ov-ai-agents-changed Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:19:17 GMT I used to think AI coding agents were a hype. After putting them to the test, I've landed somewhere in the middle—and I think that's the healthiest place to be. Where It Went Wrong Recently, I threw a complex problem at an AI agent: generate a statistics output using an intricat… development https://velitasali.com/blog/development/introducing-model-object-mapper https://velitasali.com/blog/development/introducing-model-object-mapper Fri, 04 Jun 2021 06:00:02 GMT Model Object Mapper, or MOM for short, is a Django Management Utility for statically creating and updating database entries. It supports relational fields and can work with Django apps without requiring any modification. It is free and open-source, and licensed under MIT License… development