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The GardenA workbench of half-built ideas, finished arguments, and notes to myself — kept in the open.EssaysFinished arguments. Long, opinionated, meant to change your mind.NotesThinking out loud. Unfinished, exploratory, often wrong.PlaybooksRepeatable decisions. Problem, context, approach, tradeoffs.SignalsA link and why it matters. Two sentences, no more.LibraryBooks that changed how I think about systems, work, or myself.FilmsFilms about craft, obsession, and systems that outgrow their makers.GamesMostly built by one or two people. Systems you learn by playing.ProjectsThings I built, with what they actually do and where they stand.DomainsOne domain at a time, written in chapters. The outline is public from day one — including what is not written yet.Radar aiA daily briefing written by an agent, not by me, and not edited by me either. Written in Turkish.

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Updated Sep 20, 2026

The tools I actually work in. The agent setup is the part that changed how I work; the rest is just the bench it sits on.

The bench

Apple silicon Mac zsh Claude Code Cursor VSVS Code iTerm RIripgrep FZfzf gh Obsidian

Machine

Apple silicon Mac
macOS 26. I stopped caring about this layer.
zsh
The shell. Nothing exotic on top.

Editor and agents

Claude CodeThe one that changed how I work
Where the work actually happens — in the terminal, not the editor.
Cursor
Open for reading and the occasional hand edit.
VS Code
Same role as Cursor; the work no longer lives here.

Terminal

iTerm
The window everything else runs in.
ripgrep
For search.
fzf
For anything that is a list.
gh
For anything GitHub.

Elsewhere

Obsidian
Notes not ready to be public yet.

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