Writing by Hakan Alpay on software, cities, economies, games, design, and language. https://hakanalpay.com/blog/ en-us Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:03:02 GMT Give the model real context, generate less, and delete anything that explains what the reader can already see. https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/ai-assisted-writing-worth-reading/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/ai-assisted-writing-worth-reading/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT WritingAIResearchBlogging Astro, Markdown, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, and a publishing flow I can use from ChatGPT on my phone. https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/building-an-agentic-blog/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/building-an-agentic-blog/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT SoftwareDesignBloggingAI 352. Data Stream as Disjoint Intervals Solved Hard Topics Companies Given a data stream input of non negative integers a 1 , a 2 , ..., a n , summarize the numbers seen so far as a list of disjoint intervals. Implement… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/leetcode-352-data-stream-as-disjoint-intervals/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/leetcode-352-data-stream-as-disjoint-intervals/ Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:00:00 GMT SoftwareAlgorithmsPython Leetcode Link Problem Given an array rectangles where rectangles[i] = [x i , y i , a i , b i ] represents an axis aligned rectangle. The bottom left point of the rectangle is (x i , y i ) and the top right point of it… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/leetcode-391-perfect-rectangle/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/leetcode-391-perfect-rectangle/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:00:00 GMT SoftwareAlgorithmsPython Leetcode Link Problem Design a simplified version of Twitter where users can post tweets, follow/unfollow another user, and is able to see the 10 most recent tweets in the user's news feed. Implement the Twitter class:… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/leetcode-355-design-twitter/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/leetcode-355-design-twitter/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:00:00 GMT SoftwareAlgorithmsPython hi uh It's been a rather long while since I wrote on this blog. Since then a lot has happened. One of the things that I want to talk about was something that I have been thinking about since I watched some review for… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/religion/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/religion/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 20:37:50 GMT PersonalSociety I created a 10KB classless CSS framework Bahunya has responsive typography, navbar, syntax highlighting, and much more. https://kimeiga.github.io/bahunya/ Why I created Bahunya because I wanted a CSS framework that I… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/bahunya-10kb-classless-css-framework/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/bahunya-10kb-classless-css-framework/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 17:22:50 GMT SoftwareCSSOpen Source Life is a Game Life has a series of innate game mechanics (like physics and human biology), and game mechanics created by its players (like international laws). It is a system of said mechanics with a large playerbase,… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/broken-mechanics/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/broken-mechanics/ Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:22:50 GMT GamesDesign Either finish something as quickly as possible, or as completely as possible. The closer you approach the center of these two extremes, the larger the percentage of your lifespan you’ll spend working on the project.… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/perfectionism/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/perfectionism/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 03:08:50 GMT PersonalMaking I know this has been said a thousand times but if you happen to be in a situation where you only have a low end laptop and you want to make a Vue app or code anything really, do give Vim a try. I downloaded Visual… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/time-to-learn-vim/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/time-to-learn-vim/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:37:32 GMT SoftwareTools Thinking a bunch can be useful when you need to come up with ideas or be creative in a short time frame. Or when you need to produce a lot of content that can be fueled by thought in a short time frame, like this post,… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/frankly-i-think-too-much/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/frankly-i-think-too-much/ Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:38:50 GMT PersonalMind I'm usually pretty critical of English. I despise the lack of regularity, the constant exceptions, the strange spelling, the complicated tenses, the way loan words are incorporated without modifying their spelling, etc.… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/why-i-love-youre-welcome/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/why-i-love-youre-welcome/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 23:49:51 GMT MusicPersonal I'm a computer science student I work on the computer every day, designing this Jekyll site or my portfolio, making an online fighting game or a multiplayer shooter, doing a hackathon project, etc. When I am not working… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/work-with-your-hands/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/work-with-your-hands/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 23:29:51 GMT WorkMaking This page exists just to say thank you to all the people whose work I've used and people who have supported me in life. 🙇‍ Thanks to Alexey Kryukov for designing Old Standard TT, the charming serif font that I use for… https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/my-huge-thank-yous/ https://hakanalpay.com/blog/posts/my-huge-thank-yous/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT PersonalGratitude