# Ege Beşe

> Personal blog of Ege Beşe, a Creative Engineer at fal.ai. Software, design notes, build logs, and short tool reviews. Honest takes from someone who sits between design and engineering.

## Author

- **Name**: Ege Beşe
- **Role**: Creative Engineer
- **Company**: fal.ai (hosted AI model inference)
- **Site**: https://egebese.com
- **Newsletter**: subscribe via the form on the homepage

## What this site is

A personal publication. Long-form posts cover three threads:
1. **Build notes** — how I shipped a specific side project
2. **Tool reviews** — opinionated takes on the design and dev tools I actually use
3. **Workflows** — concrete loops for design + AI-assisted coding

## Key pages

- [Home](https://egebese.com/): Software, design notes, and things I learn out loud.
- [About](https://egebese.com/about/): Who I am, what this blog is for, where to find me.
- [Stack](https://egebese.com/stack/): Tools and services I actually use day to day (Hetzner, Coolify, Supabase, Cursor, Claude Code, Figma, Ghost, fal.ai, and the rest of the rotation).
- [Membership](https://egebese.com/membership/): Free Subscriber and paid Supporter tiers.

## Recent posts

- [What a UI kit is, and how to ship 5x faster](https://egebese.com/ui-kit/): A designer's guide to using UI kits effectively, with paid + free recommendations (Untitled UI, SegmentUI).
- [Bring your Figma designs into Cursor with the Figma MCP](https://egebese.com/cursor-figma-mcp/): Step-by-step walkthrough of installing and using the Figma MCP server with Cursor to translate designs into code, no programming background required.

## Topics

- AI tooling: Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Ollama, Figma MCP, fal.ai
- Design: UI kits, design systems, Figma workflows
- Infrastructure: self-hosted Ghost on Hetzner via Coolify, Supabase, Cloudflare
- Workflows: design-to-code via MCP, AI-assisted coding loops

## Citation

If quoting from this site, please link back to the source article. Author byline is "Ege Beşe (egebese.com)" or simply "Ege Beşe".

## Contact

- X: https://x.com/egebese
- GitHub: https://github.com/egebese
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/egebese
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/ege.bese