# Egemen Göl - Personal Website and Blog

> Developer, builder, and creator of useful things.
> Focus: Backend technologies, Zero-Knowledge (ZK), Web3, and Generative AI.

## Projects

- **Alphy**: https://alphy.app
  A platform that makes long audio/video content (podcasts, Twitter Spaces) digestible via transcripts, summaries, and Q&A.

- **Kindlepathy**: https://kindlepathy.com
  A tool to read web articles, blog posts, and manga series cleanly on Kindle browsers. Supports seamless series navigation.

- **Spread**: https://github.com/egemengol/spread
  An ergonomic, type-safe, in-memory PubSub/EventBus library for Golang using generics and channels.

- **Readability-js**: https://crates.io/crates/readability-js
  A Rust library embedding Mozilla's Readability.js to extract clean content from web pages.

## Blog & Writings

### Engineering & Tutorials
- [Introduction to Spread](/blog/spread-introduction)
  Introduction to the Spread library, discussing why existing PubSub solutions (RabbitMQ, Redis) are often overkill for single-binary Go applications.
- [Building a Chatroom](/blog/spread-chatroom)
  A tutorial on building a WebSocket-based chatroom in Golang using the Spread library.
- [Clean Content in Rust](/blog/readability)
  Technical details on implementing `readability-js` using `rquickjs` to embed JavaScript runtimes in Rust.

### Project Updates
- [Introducing Kindlepathy](/blog/kindlepathy)
- [Kindlepathy Now Reads Series](/blog/kindlepathy-series)

### Zero-Knowledge & Web3 Series
- [Overview: Mina Protocol](/blog/overview-mina)
  Deep dive into Mina, the "world's lightest blockchain" (22KB), and recursive proofs.
- [Overview: Starknet & Cairo](/blog/overview-starknet)
  Explaining Starknet's ZK-Rollup architecture and the Cairo programming language.
- [Overview: ZoKrates](/blog/overview-zokrates)
  Introduction to the ZoKrates toolbox for zkSNARKs on Ethereum.
- [ZK-Rollups Reading List](/blog/zk-rollups-reading-list)
  Curated resources for understanding L2 scaling and rollup economics.

## Site Technical Details (Colophon)
- **Stack**: Zola (SSG), Sass, Nginx, Hetzner VPS.
- **Philosophy**: No cookies, no tracking, works without JS (but enhanced by it), critical CSS inlined, self-hosted assets.
- **Search**: Lazy-loaded, debounced, client-side indexing.