Who is Mustafa Enes Ertarhanacı and what does he do?

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Mustafa Enes Ertarhanacı is a UX/UI Engineer who describes himself as a "creative coder" and "amateur astrophotographer." His personal website, enes.in, is a portfolio and project hub where he shares creative coding experiments, open-source tools, and photography. If you're looking to understand his professional background, technical interests, or the kind of work he publishes, the site itself is the primary source.

Professional Identity

Ertarhanacı works as a UX/UI Engineer. His self-description emphasizes:

  • Open source — a recurring theme across his projects
  • Accessibility — listed as a core concern
  • Interaction design — central to his UX/UI work
  • Clean code — a stated priority

He has worked at several companies, listed on the site as: Cavai, CubiCasa, Timma, Wolt, Protein, and VNGRS.

Interests and Creative Work

Beyond engineering, Ertarhanacı pursues creative coding and generative art. He describes "having fun making generative art" and "simulating the nature using cellular automata." He is also an amateur astrophotographer.

His site organizes works into three categories: Creative Coding Projects, Photography, and Tools/Experiments.

Creative Coding Projects

These are interactive sketches, many hosted on CodePen under the handle @pavlovsk:

Project Description
Gravitational Fer Forgé Generative art sketch
Morning Generative art sketch
Visualizing The Earth's Orbit & Seasons Educational visualization
Pixel-Art Earth & Moon Pixel art rendering
Pixel Art Moonset Pixel art rendering
Sorted CSS Colors Tool for sorting named CSS colors
Park Street 11 - 3D CSS 3D scene built with CSS
Cosmic Rave Generative art sketch

Tools and Open-Source Projects

  • Writ-CMS — A feature-rich static site generator, noted as in early development
  • Sorted CSS Colors — A tool to sort named CSS colors so related colors appear together, intended to help when choosing between similar CSS colors
  • Reads Feed — Shares his "Open tabs / Read Later" list
  • Salinger — A task runner focused on providing 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 filters and sorts brands by their colors
  • USCSS — An experimental CSS pre-processor

Where to Find Him

The site lists contact and social links including Mastodon, X, Medium, Tumblr, CodePen, GitHub, Codewars, and Khan Academy. For hiring inquiries, it points to LinkedIn. He also invites questions via DM or mention, and provides a contact method listed as g1+v%kq3.

Who This Is For

This overview is useful if you want to:

  • Evaluate Ertarhanacı's background for collaboration or hiring
  • Explore his open-source tools (Salinger, Nisanyanmap, Brandify, USCSS)
  • Browse creative coding and generative art examples
  • Find his writing or social profiles

The site is a personal portfolio rather than a product or service, so there is no pricing or sign-up information to consider.