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Onur Şuyalçınkaya

Frontend Engineer, JavaScript enthusiast, DJ, writer and minimalist. Currently living in Berlin, Germany and developing things at heycar. Writing mostly about code, design, and my notions to learn, not to teach.

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2020 — Year in Review

It's probably the best and the worst year I've ever had.
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Bir Yazılımcı Olarak Türkiye’den Gitmek (Bölüm 1: Nedenler)

28 yaşında Berlin'de yaşamaya başlayan genç bir adamın hikayesi...
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Phone Setup

My home screen was a mess and it was really damn hard to find anything. I decided to go with more minimal and productive way.
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useFetch: A Custom React Hook

What about extracting that recurrent logic into a reusable piece of code (hook) and reuse it where the need be?
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Using HTML5 <video> with <canvas>

Did you know that the <video> and <canvas> elements would be a great choice to use together?
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Understanding “React.memo”

It increases the performance of functional components by preventing useless renderings. But such performance tweaks must be applied wisely.
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What I Have Learned From Working With HTML5 <video> Over a Month

I had a chance to work with HTML5 <video> in a project over a month and here is what I have learned from it.
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You May Not Need a Carousel: At Least For Mobile Browsers

Carousels can be painful because building it requires architectural thinking, management of data and elements, DOM manipulation, and consideration for user interaction.
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Removing Array Dublicates in ES6

4 ways to filter out the duplicates from an array and return only the unique values.
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Converting 10 Digit Timestamp to Date

It might seem confusing sometimes.
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Using Flickity with React

I love using Flickity, it’s great and super easy to use. But… 👀
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Using Tailwind CSS with Gatsby.js

Here’s my recipe to get Tailwind CSS working with Gatsby.js