# kaganerkan

> Personal site of Kagan Erkan (handle: `kaganerkan`). Tech-entertainment
> video, useful open source, and a pixel-identity design system.
> Canonical domain: https://www.kaganerkan.com/

## About the author

Kagan Erkan is a high-schooler who builds things — tools, videos, and
the pages that hold them together. He runs a tech-entertainment
YouTube channel and publishes open source on GitHub.

- Name: Kagan Erkan (Turkish spelling: Kağan Erkan)
- Handle: kaganerkan
- Email: contact@kaganerkan.com
- Bio (own words): "Greetings, internet dweller. I'm a high-schooler who
  likes to build things — tools, videos, and the pages that hold them
  together. Some of it ships; some of it sits half-finished in a folder.
  Both count."

### Detailed biography (third-person)

Kağan Erkan is a Turkish high school student, award-winning software
developer, and technology creator with extensive programming experience
beginning in first grade. His work spans artificial intelligence, AI
benchmarking, local AI infrastructure, software engineering, and
multidisciplinary research and development.

He has received multiple national awards in programming and electrical
engineering through competitions organized by Codeavour, the
Turkish–Japanese Foundation, and other organizations. Internationally, he
earned first place for a research and development project at a Stanford
Medicine–associated event involving more than 200 student participants.

Having started programming in elementary school, Kağan has progressively
expanded his work into multidisciplinary engineering and research projects
throughout high school, combining software development, hardware systems,
and practical experimentation.

His work focuses on developing, testing, and evaluating technologies
through independent projects, with particular interests in artificial
intelligence, engineering, and real-world applications of emerging
technologies.

## Channels and contact

- YouTube (long-form tech-entertainment):
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_PLanMDOU4wZnQhj1i7i4Q
- GitHub (open source):
  https://github.com/kaganerkan
- Blog (news / writeups from the workshop):
  https://www.kaganerkan.com/pages/blog
- Email:
  contact@kaganerkan.com

## Site pages

- Home / profile: https://www.kaganerkan.com/
- Videos (long-form list, fetched live from the channel RSS on
  page load — no JSON to maintain):
  https://www.kaganerkan.com/pages/videos
- Blog (notes, writeups, and news from the workshop):
  https://www.kaganerkan.com/pages/blog
- /now (what the author is currently focused on):
  https://www.kaganerkan.com/pages/now
- Atom feed: https://www.kaganerkan.com/feed.xml
- 404: themed not-found page

## Blog posts

- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Benchmarks: What Changed?
  https://www.kaganerkan.com/pages/posts/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-benchmarks
- Gemini 4 Argon Review: Benchmarks vs. Coding Reliability
  https://www.kaganerkan.com/pages/posts/gemini-4-argon-review

## Long-form videos

The full list is pulled live from the YouTube channel RSS
(`https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=…`) on every
page load, by `scripts/videos-fetch.mjs`. There is no committed JSON
to maintain. Shorts are dropped by URL pattern — Shorts sit at
`/shorts/<id>` in the canonical RSS link, long-form at `/watch?v=<id>`.

As of the last refresh on this fetch, the channel has one long-form
video:

1. "Gemini 4 Argon Is Bad at Coding. Google Might Win Anyway."
   - Published: 2026-10-15
   - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnhAXrhX84w
   - Embed: https://www.youtube.com/embed/PnhAXrhX84w

## Topics the author writes about

Based on the public bio and YouTube uploads:

- Software development and open source
- Artificial intelligence (foundation models, enterprise AI, AI tools)
- Tech media / tech-entertainment video
- Pixel-art design and personal brand systems

## How the site is built

- Static, no framework, no build step.
- Vanilla HTML5, CSS custom properties, native ES modules, custom
  Web Components.
- Fonts: Silkscreen (display), VT323 (body), DotGothic16 (code) —
  loaded from Google Fonts.
- Video data: pulled live by `scripts/videos-fetch.mjs` on every
  page load from the public YouTube channel RSS feed. Shorts are
  dropped by URL pattern. The result is cached in `localStorage`
  for one hour and the JSON-LD `ItemList` is rewritten from the
  same fetch. No JSON file to maintain, no CLI to run, no commit
  step.
- Blog data: read only from `/data/posts.json`. The blog index
  (`pages/blog.html`) fetches the JSON on load and renders the
  Featured hero, Latest cards, and Archive list dynamically
  (`scripts/blog-render.mjs`). Individual post pages are
  pre-generated at `pages/posts/<slug>.html` by the publisher CLI.
- Publishing a blog post: `node scripts/new-post.mjs` — walks
  through title, date, summary, tags, and a body file (Markdown
  or HTML), then writes the post page, updates
  `data/posts.json`, and appends the URL to `sitemap.xml`. List
  current posts with `node scripts/list-posts.mjs`. No npm
  dependencies.

## Structured data on every page

Every public page exposes Schema.org JSON-LD in `<script
type="application/ld+json">`:

- Home: `Person`, `WebSite`, `ProfilePage`, plus an `ItemList` of
  `VideoObject` entries for the latest uploads.
- Videos: `CollectionPage` with the full `ItemList` of long-form
  videos.
- Blog: `Blog` (with `publisher → #person`, an empty `blogPost`
  array for now) wrapped in a `WebPage` (`mainEntity → #blog`).
- /now and 404: `WebPage` linked to the site-wide
  `#person` and `#site` identifiers.

A canonical URL, Open Graph tags, and Twitter Card tags are also
present on every page.

## Reuse and license

The site source is released under the terms of `LICENSE`. Brand
assets (pixel-art-logo.png, kagan-headshot.png) and Streamline icons
retain their original rights. License text lives in the
`LICENSE` file at the repository root.