ABOUT
Hello, I'm Berkant.
I am curious about technology, software and artificial intelligence. But part of my mind is always somewhere else: old maps, chronicles, archival documents and the ways the past is told.
Keeping these two interests together slowly became a habit. I started to look at technology with a historian's eye and at history with the possibilities of technology. This blog stands exactly at that crossing.
What will I write about?
- New technology: new tools, platforms and their effects on society.
- Artificial intelligence: especially large language models, their strengths, their limits and how they change our relationship with knowledge.
- History and historiography: method, source criticism and how history turns into a text.
- Software: engineering culture, practice and the intellectual side of code.
- Crossovers: digital humanities, the digitisation of archives and doing history with artificial intelligence.
Why do I write?
Because writing is the slowest and most honest form of thinking. Putting an idea into sentences exposes its weak points. Historians have done this for centuries; engineers do it by writing documentation. I try to write somewhere between the two.
About the English edition
The blog is written in Turkish. The English pages are translations of the Turkish originals, with the same sources and the same care for accuracy. Every article links to its original.
Get in touch
If you have a note, a correction or a topic you would like to discuss, you can reach me here:
- GitHub: github.com/berkantkull
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/berkantkul
