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Scope4.0
This is where I write down whatever is on my mind. Some of it is build notes on the tools I put together, some of it is just everyday life. I try to write less about what I made than about what I decided, where a constraint pushed me, and where I took a wrong turn.
Posts4.1 · 6 entries
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4.1.6
Listening to the news instead of reading it
I built a Chrome extension that reads Turkish news aloud. The voice is generated entirely in the browser by an open-source model; the real work was extracting the article and three rounds with the store. Plus the price of staying serverless.
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4.1.5
A week in Bolu
We spent the last week of summer in Bolu as a family. Forest at Narven, water lilies at Gölcük, dirt tracks by ATV, Bayezid Mosque in Bolu and Yazıkara village from above. With photographs.
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4.1.4
Removing the AI made it better
I built a single-file page to read 19 tech publications in Turkish. Dropping the API key didn’t shrink the product — it led me to a more honest way of finding what mattered that day. Plus my favourite bug: the page mistook a paywall for the article and translated it with great care.
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4.1.3
From Saada to Bab el-Mandeb
A local religious and political movement that began in Saada in the 1990s is now a regional power that controls Yemen’s capital, can strike Saudi energy facilities, and can disrupt shipping at Bab el-Mandeb. Thirty years, in order.
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4.1.2
A morning briefing for stationery
I built a curator that scans a hundred stationery brands and sends me one notification at 09:00 every morning. Built with Gemini. Using the automation muscles for a hobby rather than for work.
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4.1.1
We built an assistant on a zero budget
We built an assistant that answers gut-microbiota questions for a supplement brand, and it went live in four days. Picking a model was not the hard part. I thought “make it free” was a detail to sort out later. It turned out to decide everything from the start.
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