devsimsek's Blog

I promised biweekly posts, so here is post one.

I disappeared for six months, so this is an apology and a promise, Ill be trying harder from now on, focusing on my mental health and academics at the same time.

I built a screenplay editor that runs in the browser, exports Fountain, and gets out of the way.

Researchers just mathematically proved that AI can't recursively self-improve its way to superintelligence - and honestly, the proof is kind of beautiful.

I built a PWA to map dust spots on my camera sensor — because apparently spending a weekend coding is a perfectly reasonable response to watching a 10-minute YouTube video.

I hate Instagram, Pixelfed is slow, and I was bored — so I built a static photo portfolio with a keyboard-first CLI and a JSON headless API.

I went down the rabbit hole of self-hosting Git — from raw file servers and SSH to Gitolite and full-blown managed forges.

Axios, one of the most downloaded npm packages in existence, got compromised.

I first touched Proxmox in 2018 and ghosted it for years.

A breakdown of the LiteLLM supply chain attack of March 2026, what it actually stole, who was affected, and a developer's perspective on why integrating AI middleware into production apps carries risks that often go unexamined — especially for developers…

Go is opinionated about a lot of things — but project structure isn't one of them.

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is like giving your AI a library card - instead of relying on outdated training data, it searches for fresh, relevant information to answer questions accurately.