Long-form writing on engineering practice, AI, Linux, software architecture, project management, and other topics from the workbench.
A Two Minute Papers video made the idea click: many model calls should be typed decisions, not chat. I tried Kev, then built local-jev, a tiny local package that reads option logits directly instead of parsing generated JSON.
Local AIramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Since companies started putting AI into everyday work, messages around me have become longer and less personal. I often spend more time finding the request inside them than answering it.
AI & Workplaceramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →For a short while I had access to Anthropic's strongest model. Its working discipline was the part I wanted to keep, so I put those habits into an installable kit for the weaker models that stay. Then I measured whether the kit did anything.
AI & Toolingramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →I keep saying modern AI is basically fancy predictive text. So I went looking for the evidence, for and against my own claim, and let it change my mind where it should. A non-technical, fully-sourced look at where the comparison is fair and where it falls apart.
AI · Non-technicalramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →You pay coding agents by the token. Output costs about five times more than input, the training rewards length, and every file the agent leaves behind is re-read on the next turn. All three incentives favour more output.
AI & Economicsramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Building agent-doublethink, a tool that lets two coding agents on two machines coordinate over an end-to-end-encrypted channel: the one decision about what not to build, an assumption I was sure of and corrected, and the bugs only a live test could find.
AI & Toolingramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →How the broker actually got built, read straight off its git history: the over-engineered design I deleted, a packaging decision reversed, the Redis swap, and a live demo you can run in your browser. Every commit hash links to the real diff.
Securityramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A twelve-minute video sent me down a rabbit hole into thousands of hand-made personal sites, the XXIIVV webring, and the Merveilles community: a quieter, more intentional internet that never went anywhere.
The Webramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →ntfy is wonderful because it asks nothing of you. That is also why its topics are effectively public. The design path to keeping the ease while adding genuinely private channels, including a dead end I deleted.
Securityramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →How I built claude-can-speak: the TTS engine bake-off, why naturalness beat multilingual, the two-modes design, and shipping it on npm instead of a Debian package.
Local AIramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →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 →A practical, evidence-based guide to the Lebenslauf in the DACH market: what recruiters actually read in the first seconds, the conventions that quietly sink an application, and how to build one that survives both the human and the parser.
Career & Hiringramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →The Narrative Development Protocol: a practical compass for AI-native software builders.
AI & Softwareramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Why constraints stack up over a project's life and how to plan for it.
Project Managementramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A formal spec for managing the story a software project tells itself.
Protocol Designramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →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.
Frontendramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Diagnosing and fixing a containerised build that cannot reach the network.
Dockerramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A working WSL2 + VS Code setup for Angular development.
Dev Setupramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Getting parallax sections to behave properly with Materialize.css.
Frontendramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A short fix for the macOS-only fsevents warning when running npm install on Linux or Windows.
Node.jsramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Configuring Windows Defender Firewall to expose a development port to the LAN.
Windowsramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Solving the networking gap between Docker inside WSL2 and the Windows host.
Dockerramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Setting the right execution policy for local script development.
Windowsramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A small autostart trick for WSL 2 on Windows 10.
Windowsramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →Running Docker inside WSL 2 without the Docker Desktop license.
Dockerramazan-yavuz.tr Read article →A first post on the blog. Mostly a marker to confirm the WordPress install was working.
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