Now

What I’m focused on these days. It’s a /now page, an idea from Derek Sivers.

• Work: designing the systems behind a crypto exchange: event flow, the API gateway, the matching engine, and proving it all holds under load.
• Writing: this site, one essay every Sunday in English and Turkish, also sent as a newsletter. Four are out: principles 01, 02 and 03, and what a skill can draw. Next come deep dives on change data capture, Postgres internals and CQRS.
• Learning: LLMs and RAG, by building small tools and breaking them. Also how to hand my own way of working to Claude and Codex.
• Off the clock: bağlama, a little drums and bass guitar, cars, intercity buses, MSFS 2024.