Sercan Esen
Colophon · updated 2026-09-16

How this site is made

A small static site, built to be checked: every claim links to its source, no cookies follow you, and the fonts, maps and images are credited below. This page says how it is made, what it does not do, and how to tell me when something is wrong.

Principles

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SourcesEvery recognition row, milestone and date links to a public source. Numbers from my own devices or accounts say so.
No trackingNo cookies of my own. Page views are counted in aggregate with Vercel Web Analytics, which runs from this domain, sets no cookies and stores nothing that identifies you. The one exception is the LinkedIn page, which embeds posts from linkedin.com; LinkedIn may set its own cookies inside those frames.
Logos identify sourcesOrganisation marks appear only to point at a record and belong to their owners; no endorsement is implied.
CorrectionsIf something is wrong, email me. I fix mistakes and the footer shows the date of the last change.

For machines: llms.txt · sitemap · RSS · humans.txt. Corrections: sercan@intenseye.com.

Made with

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Framework: Astro, statically generated, deployed on Vercel from a private GitHub repository
Type: Geist and Geist Mono by Vercel, self-hosted under the SIL Open Font License
Palette: Intenseye's, with square corners. Cream, ink, and one red
Map: US state shapes from the US Census Bureau's cartographic boundary files, Albers USA projection
Covers: book and record thumbnails via Open Library and the Cover Art Archive, stored locally, shown small to identify each title
Training data: distances, times and routes from my Strava account through its API; the page says when it was last synced
Maps: OpenStreetMap tiles stitched once at build, tinted to the palette and self-hosted. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Photos and sketches: © Sercan Esen unless noted. Event photos come from conferences and meetings I took part in