BloggingBulent Yusuf ·
Adventures in localisation: Bloggst du gerne?
Localisation from English to German, how difficult can it be? Spinning up a proof of concept with Contentful and Claude.
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BloggingBulent Yusuf ·
Eliminating cruft from the codebase
How the BLOAT was banished, and what it takes to maintain a lean, mean, blogging machine.
FilmsGenial Yeti & Trippy Robot ·
When films are structured like video games
Sometimes, a movie is just a movie. But when filmmakers take inspiration from another medium, the effect can be exhilarating.
BloggingBulent Yusuf ·
The weight of standing agent instructions
One file of agent instructions grew to over 1,700 lines and cost 25,000 tokens before I'd typed a single prompt. The BLOAT, and how to fight it.
FilmsGenial Yeti & Bulent Yusuf ·
Number crunching the Criterion Closet Picks
A prestigious cupboard of physical media. A cavalcade of filmmakers and actors. What patterns can we find between them?
BloggingBulent Yusuf ·
How to stop worrying about content tagging
It's boring and easy to neglect, but content tagging still has a purpose. How I set up and maintain tags for my content library.
BloggingBulent Yusuf ·
Static site search, like the index in a reference book
Search that works like the index at the back of a reference book: compile in advance, and consult it yourself rather than pester a librarian.
Games & GadgetsTrippy Robot ·
10 big box PC games from the golden era
A photo essay of 10 big box PC games from the 1980s and early 90s, from Zak McKracken to SimCity and Sid Meier's Pirates! You're welcome.
BloggingBulent Yusuf ·
A hard day’s light: Adding a snazzy dark mode to the site
What it takes to give a site a dark mode, how your device decides which mode you can see, and why it's more complicated than inverting a colour palette.
BloggingBulent Yusuf ·
Automated backups with Contentful & GitHub Actions
Traipsing through the process of setting up automated backups in Contentful, then verifying it works by restoring content to a fresh space.
Games & GadgetsBulent Yusuf ·
A keyboard that plays Wagner, built from a stack of PCBs
A mechanical keyboard that bleeps a chiptune "Ride of the Valkyries" whenever you power it on. Let's go!