Long-form writing on engineering practice, AI, Linux, software architecture, project management, and other topics from the workbench.
A patient walk through what happens when you bolt a search index onto a language model, why that fixes some problems and not others.
Local AIramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A small Python CLI that turns any OpenAI-compatible endpoint into a permissioned coding agent.
Local AIramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →If you have ever stared at Q4_K_M, Q5_K_S, IQ3_XXS and wondered which to pick: this is the practical breakdown.
Local AIramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Three frontier coding agents, one container, no cross-contamination. The boring engineering that makes it useful.
AI & DevOpsramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →An RFC 9457 extension born from one frustrating debugging session with an autonomous agent that refused to learn.
AI & API Designramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A skeptical look at a Strix Halo ThinkPad with unified memory. I bought it with low expectations and have been overwhelmed by how much I like it.
Hardware Reviewramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →The idea was small enough to look easy. The implementation, like a lot of small ideas, turned out to need more care than expected.
Linux & UXramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A small tray toy I built on purpose. It turned out to require more careful engineering than most of my serious tools.
Linux & UIramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →My laptop lives plugged in. Charge thresholds were not enough, so I wrote a small daemon that uses a kernel feature most tools ignore.
Linux & Hardwareramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A small wrapper around llama.cpp that I wrote because I kept rebuilding the same shell scripts, and one I think is finally worth keeping.
Local AIramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →An interactive fiction engine where the LLM is the parser, never the storyteller. The line matters.
Game Engine & AIramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →The Narrative Development Protocol: a practical compass for AI-native software builders.
AI & SoftwareMedium Read on Medium →Why constraints stack up over a project's life and how to plan for it.
Project ManagementMedium Read on Medium →A formal spec for managing the story a software project tells itself.
Protocol DesignMedium Read on Medium →A practical WSL2-based dev environment that has lasted years.
Dev SetupLinkedIn Read on LinkedIn →When a fine-tuned 7B model beats GPT-4 on the boring routing problem you actually need solved.
AI & LLMsLinkedIn Read on LinkedIn →Numbers from a real production deployment, not a marketing benchmark.
AI BenchmarkingLinkedIn Read on LinkedIn →A short experiment that became a permanent backup setup.
Mobile DevLinkedIn Read on LinkedIn →Bind mounts, hot reload, and the small tricks that make Docker feel native.
Docker & DevOpsLinkedIn Read on LinkedIn →A frustration log from working with Angular's tooling in 2021.
Frontendblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →Diagnosing and fixing a containerised build that cannot reach the network.
Dockerblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →A working WSL2 + VS Code setup for Angular development.
Dev Setupblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →Getting parallax sections to behave properly with Materialize.css.
Frontendblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →A short fix for the macOS-only fsevents warning when running npm install on Linux or Windows.
Node.jsblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →Configuring Windows Defender Firewall to expose a development port to the LAN.
Windowsblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →Solving the networking gap between Docker inside WSL2 and the Windows host.
Dockerblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →Setting the right execution policy for local script development.
Windowsblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →A small autostart trick for WSL 2 on Windows 10.
Windowsblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →Running Docker inside WSL 2 without the Docker Desktop license.
Dockerblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →A first post on the blog. Mostly a marker to confirm the WordPress install was working.
Miscblog.yavuz.support Read on the blog →