How I built a complete brand for my first paying client, a personal trainer. Covers the photoshoot on a Sony A6700, photo editing in Lightroom, an A3 poster and business card in Illustrator, tracing a PNG logo into a clean SVG, choosing the domain, building and deploying the website on AWS S3 and CloudFront, a serverless contact form on API Gateway, Lambda and SES, setting up custom email, and the client handover. One job where photography, design and cloud engineering converged.

This is part two of the agent build. Part one covers the backend, the Lambda, the keyless cross-cloud auth, and the grounding engine that makes the answers honest. This post covers everything the v...

A conversational agent on denizyilmaz.cloud, answered by AWS Lambda and grounded by Agent Search. Two clouds in one request path, and no stored credentials anywhere in the system.

A running record of every book I read, tracked for reference with a flow diagram connecting the progression. This is a living post updated as I finish each title.

Field notes from five days in Stockholm. Observations, spots, and operational notes for next visit.

A mechanical breakdown of the four states of training stress, the receptor downregulation that drives overreaching, and the structural rules required to recover instead of accumulate.

Transitioning from a passive travel log to an engineered operating system in Bodrum to balance technical builds and physical recovery.

Bone-in skin-on chicken supreme cooked in cast iron. Two attempts, one overcooked, one dialled in. Full method and what I learned.

A classic Swedish kladdkaka adapted for UK ingredients. Full method, nutrition breakdown, and how I ended up baking it.

A mechanical breakdown of the DO-HEALTH trial data and the specific Omega 3 and Vitamin D supplementation stack required to slow epigenetic aging.