Now

Hi!
I'm Deniz (say hi) and I like to program computers. 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.

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. It's powered by Obsidian and the digital garden plugin

This page lives on this computer

Working

• How I get things done with my productivity framework
• Apple -- App Intents Framework and developer tooling

Computing

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

External

• My realtime updates on the Fediverse.
• My goodreads profile

Extra curricular

• Home studio recording
• Carbine2 -- Top down shooter game in HTML5
• jschess -- A chess engine in Javascript (~1500 ELO)
• SideMark -- A Markdown parser for Swift
• Elephas -- A Mastodon client for macOS
• KeyPulse -- A keystroke and mouse click counter
• C4I:MC -- A Mech strategy/simulation game
• RetroTrade -- A back testing framework for trading
• Liquidate -- A market simulation game
• PolyGate -- A data aggregator running on Prefect
• TradeBrain -- A set of financial models for trading
• IMG2FEN -- Converts a screenshot of a chessboard to a FEN string
• ChessBrain -- A set of computer chess related apps