evrim.zone

Evrim Öztamur — September 2026 comms@evrim.zone LinkedIn – GitHub – Website Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Summary I’m a data analyst and software developer with 5+ years of experience building financial technology and analytical systems.

Developing electrobillion An educational power grid simulator electrobillion is an educational city-building simulation in which you take charge of the power infrastructure for a growing island micronation.

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Quick prototyping and ergonomics in Rust projects I was recently asked a question that many other (game) developers using Rust must have gotten too: How do you feel about the criticism leveled against Rust game development that you can’t quickly prototype…

Generating Excel’s What-if Analysis Data Tables in Python I am a part-time corporate valuation specialist, which means that I put prices on things, and spend nearly all my billable hours in Excel.

Mechanical overview My main inspiration for the game is the bishop and knight checkmate.

Developing Maginet A cross-platform strategy game with Rust/WebAssembly I spent a couple months trying to see if I can release a game and learn new technologies.

accotron devlog for 2023W06 Journal timelines I had referred to the beancount timeline representations used by some sections in their wiki before, but I didn’t get around to coming up with a good design that meshes well with the rest of accotron.

Journal timelines While digging around for some research on journal systems, I found these great visualisations on the beancount docs: This graph displays transactions on a timeline where each transaction has arms reaching out to the accounts they impact.

Beware This article concerns the implementation details of immutable ledgers and working with Xero.

accotron devlog for 2023W05 Just came home from my two-week trip to Turkey.

accotron devlog for 2023W02 Since the last devlog, I got distracted by various life-stuff like contract work, Christmas, and Advent of Code: I finished this year in Rust once again, not having used it over the last year.

The secret to fluffy rice I finally concluded my quest for reliably fluffy stovetop rice with no starchiness or broken grains.

ISO 20022: pain.001 I briefly referred to pain.001 in my project article for batch2sepa, and there are some overlaps (see: copy-pasted sections) between that article and this one.

accotron devlog for 2022W49 Journal annotations Kicking off this week with a fun side note: I realised that the journal_number field (e.g. for Journal #2110, 2110 is the journal_number) is stored a string, and when I sorted the list on this field the #2110

accotron devlog for 2022W48 Started writing already as I’m developing this week to keep up to date and think out loud.

accotron devlog for 2022W47 Calmer week with a bit more focus than the last one.

Beware This article mainly concerns the implementation details of immutable ledgers and working with Xero, it’s not necessarily about the sales tax comparison report, which is why this is a separate article.

Sales tax comparison report Small adjustments to your value added tax (VAT) balance is not something that’s uncommon.

Thoughts on version control and bookkeeping Software engineering has version control It’s heretical not to use it (yet many don’t) For absolutely good reason Bookkeeping shares similarities in its process to SE Many problems that could be helped significa…