Rebuilding this site with Next.js 16, Sanity and a lot of empty space
Why I threw away a working blog, rebuilt it on Next.js 16 and Sanity, and designed it around ma, the Japanese idea that empty space does the work.
Kagan Mert
Technical PM and software engineer with 6 years in tech, leading roadmap and Agile delivery for an AI-driven health-tech platform with 13k+ physicians and 250k+ consultations.
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All posts →Leda, an animated splash, and one haptic vocabulary
Guessy got a face: Leda, the game's host, replaced the placeholder icon, the launch plays a short animated splash, and every tactile moment now goes through a named haptic cue.
Rebranded to Guessy and made store ready
The working name gave way to Guessy, the interface moved to native Liquid Glass surfaces, store identifiers were pinned, and the first iOS archive went through EAS.
A complete round in a single day
From an empty Expo scaffold to a playable game: eight built-in decks in English and Turkish, a tilt controlled round, custom decks, AI generated words, and a four step onboarding.