Cemre's Blog

My personal tech stack in 2026 I previously did a post like this in the beginning of 2025.

Community-based peer-reviewed education concept Raphael — The School of Athens (1509–11) When I moved to the UK, the cost of university here made me think harder about what a degree actually provides.

Why I left Twitter & why I chose Mastodon over Bluesky Pieter Bruegel the Elder — The Tower of Babel (1563) On the beginning of 2025, in line with my new year's aspirations, I left Twitter.

Link seals - self-testing links proof of concept Pieter Claesz — Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill (1628) Link seals - self-testing links proof of concept What is a link seal Premise Example Public or Private Seal Check Functions Public Private…

Writing a Client-Side RSS Reader Writing a Client-Side RSS Reader What is RSS anyways So,,, is it dead?

Quoting Manuel Moreale Rembrandt — The Artist in His Studio Manuel's new years resolution closely resembles what I've been murmuring to myself for a couple years and I have the same wishes. (...)

Useful online tools Albrecht Dürer — Melencolia I (1514) This is my index of useful online tools.

How I manage my passwords I. hate. password. managers.

My personal tech stack going into 2025 Johannes Vermeer — The Geographer (c. 1669) These are the technologies I currently use, ones I'd like to swtich to, and ones I've tried.

Moonscript: could it kill Python?

İngiltere'de vergisiz yatırım: ISA nedir?

Tax-free investment in the UK: What is an ISA?

Managing LLM Conversations Using a Graph Structure Introduction Ever felt frustrated when a chatbot loses context after you explore a side topic?

Host Flask app on Vercel for Free What is Vercel?

How to land a Software Engineering job in the UK I have been working as a Software Engineer at Amazon Prime Video in London since May 2022.

What is Immutability in Software Design?

Creating a static archive of Emoji images Introducing Emoji.dutl.uk: A Simple Website that Serves Emojis as Images Emojis have become a part of our daily communication on social media, messaging apps, and other digital platforms.

Spring for beginners This article assumes you have basic programming skills and an engineering/programming background.

Creating a website with SimplyMarkdown (Copied over from the SimplyMarkdown repository.

Exploring Language study Optimization Carl Spitzweg — The Bookworm (c. 1850) Coursemaker is program to parse sentences in a corpus, and sort them in an order ideal for vocabulary study.

Typ-o and Typ-v: Foreign keyboard writing practice game Albrecht Dürer — Saint Jerome in His Study (1514) typ-o is a simple js-based web application that allows you to type in the standard Russian Cyrillic input method, while highlighting the keys you pre…

Mask detection using CV2 and a custom ML model trained from scratch Situation People started wearing masks in Istanbul during the coronavirus outbreak.

Generating Images from Sketches using SketchyGAN Albrecht Dürer — Rhinoceros (1515) In this project, we implemented SketchyGAN, an image-to-image GAN model that allowed for non-pixel-to-pixel transformations which was novel at the time.

North Korean Economy, its establishment, its collapse and its present How did North Korea's economy, once better than the South, end up where it is today?

Earthquake time-to-failure prediction using a trigger word detection algorithm Katsushika Hokusai — The Great Wave at Kanagawa (c. 1830–32) In this project, we aimed to explore the feasibility of using trigger word detection models to predict earthquakes.