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Hi, I'm Deniz (say [hi ) I work as a software engineer and have had the chance to build stuff for amazing companies such as this , this and this and a few others.

I like to program computers.

This is a now page, inspired by Derek Sivers. Its aim is to provide you with a very high level overview of what's going on in my life. It's hosted at my home office

Working

• Apple -- App Intents Framework and developer tooling
• Liquidate -- A stock market / economy simulation game

Productivity framework

Learning

• Quantitative trading

Listening

• Metalcore / Melodic death metal 🤘🏻
• Audible: Horus rising - Dan Abnett

Reading

• Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors
• Corporate Finance for Dummies
• Algorithmic trading
• My Goodreads profile

Watching

• The Pitt S02
• Tehran S03
• Hijack S02

Next up

• Malcolm in the Middle (April 10, 2026)
• Scrubs (Feb 25, 2026)

Living

• Sammamish, WA

Computing

• macOS Tahoe + iOS 26 daily drivers with Ubuntu focal on homelab servers
• Productivity: Calendar App, Things3, Obsidian
• Programming: Xcode, Terminal, git
• Ops: Jenkins, gitea
• Services: gitea, mastodon, plex, audiobookshelf, minio, jupyter, immich, jenkins, peertube

Extra curricular

• Home studio recording
• MechTek
• Carbine2
• jschess
• bloggen
• SideMark
• Elephas
• Keypulse
• C4I:MC -- A Mech strategy/simulation game
• RetroTrade -- A back testing framework for trading
• TradeBrain -- A set of financial models for trading

Week Notes

• 2026: W08 | W09

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