Building for Coolest Grandma
Design philosophy for intuitive yet elegant experiences
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Hey!
I'm Berk
I'm a software engineer passionate about healthcare.
Current Obsessions
Recommendation engines, Reinforcement Learning, LLM Memory, LLM Observability & Guardrails, Automations and Human-in-the-loop workflows.
Side Quests
OpenTelemetry, Playwright, OpenSource Healthcare, SQS, Kafka and more.
Thoughts
How to Ship Production Features in 24 Hours Without Burning Out
A 24‑hour playbook that protects quality, safety, and sleep
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Stimulating Neuroplasticity with Learning Clojure
Why a Lisp changed how I think after a decade of TypeScript/C++
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Why Error Messages Are Part of UX (And How to Design Them)
Design principles, patterns, and a checklist for helpful errors
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Why Fewer Parameters = Safer Systems
Reducing knobs to cut risk, complexity, and blast radius
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First Principles Thinking
A practical case study applying first principles to real constraints
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Designing LLM Workflows
Structured Pipelines vs. Autonomous Agents
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Self-Evolving Layered Structured Memory
Turning Chat Fragments into a Living Knowledge System
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