What Projects and Works Are Featured on Mustafa Enes Ertarhanacı's Website?

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Mustafa Enes Ertarhanacı's site (enes.in) presents his work in three main buckets: creative coding projects (mostly embedded CodePen demos), tools and open-source projects, and photography/astrophotography. If you want to see what he builds and experiments with, the "Works" section is the place to start — it links directly to live demos and project pages rather than just describing them.

Creative Coding Projects

These are interactive sketches and visual experiments, embedded as CodePen demos under the handle @pavlovsk:

Project What it appears to be
Gravitational Fer Forgé A generative/creative coding sketch
Morning A visual coding piece
Visualizing The Earth's Orbit & Seasons An educational visualization of orbital mechanics
Pixel-Art Earth & Moon Pixel-art rendering of Earth and the Moon
Pixel Art Moonset Pixel-art scene of a moonset
Sorted CSS Colors A tool for viewing related CSS colors side by side
Park Street 11 - 3D CSS A 3D scene built with CSS
Cosmic Rave A generative/visual piece

The recurring themes are generative art, simulating nature (including cellular automata), and front-end experiments — consistent with how he describes himself as a "creative coder."

Tools and Open-Source Projects

Beyond visual demos, the site lists several developer tools and utilities:

  • Writ-CMS — described as "a feature-rich static site generator in early development."
  • Sorted CSS Colors — a tool to sort named CSS colors so related colors appear together, useful when choosing between similar CSS colors. It also appears as a CodePen demo.
  • Reads Feed — shares his "Open tabs / Read Later" list as he works through it.
  • Salinger — a task runner focused on giving more freedom than other build solutions.
  • Salinger Basic Boilerplate — a sample usage of Salinger.
  • Makefile for the Front End — an experimental build boilerplate using Make, for quickly starting a frontend.
  • Nisanyanmap — a web scraper for nisanyanmap.com with both a programmatic API and a CLI.
  • Brandify — extracts colors from brand logos, then lets you filter and sort brands by their colors.
  • USCSS — his experimental CSS pre-processor.

These reflect a strong open-source and tooling focus, matching the emphasis on "open source, accessibility, interaction design, clean code" stated on the site.

Photography and Astrophotography

The site includes a Photography section, and he identifies as an amateur astrophotographer. The pixel-art Earth/Moon and moonset pieces sit at the intersection of this interest and his creative coding work.

How to Explore the Work Yourself

  1. Go to enes.in and use the "Skip to: Works" link (or scroll to the Works section).
  2. Click any CodePen embed to open the live, runnable demo — you can inspect and fork the code there.
  3. For tools like Writ-CMS, Salinger, Nisanyanmap, Brandify, and USCSS, follow the project links from the Works section to their repositories or pages.
  4. For ongoing writing and updates, the "Recent Blog Posts" section links to his full blog.

One practical note: because most creative coding pieces are hosted on CodePen, the fastest way to understand them is to open the demo and read the source directly rather than relying on descriptions.