Journalistic-Writing

I’ve wanted to get proper password management for a long while. I guess I’ve had an irrational repulsion from password managers in the past but I understand that they have many benefits in terms of security and ease of use. However, this is provided that the manager stores passwords securely. The approach I landed on is using pass, a password manager inspired by the unix philosophy. It uses the OpenPGP standard and a directory-based approach to storing encrypted passwords. I liked the idea, since its file-based structure allows the password store to be used with git and be synced with any device that can use git. I guess I really enjoy version controlling everything in my life :p ...

Hello again! It’s been a while since I last wrote here, mostly due to the tight schedule I had during this semester. It was also the final semester of my Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, and it really was a good final. As I mentioned in a previous post, our paper got accepted into the EASE conference in Glasgow. From this, I got a chance to see the UK for 10 days and present our paper with my friend Semih. It was quite a wonderful time, where I got to experience a research conference for the first time and meet a lot of like-minded people. ...

So, some updates on the BILSEN work: A few days ago our paper “Automated Classification of Human Code Review Comments with Large Language Models” got accepted for the International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2026 Edition. I still can’t quite wrap my mind around it. I did a double-take on my phone screen when I saw the email notification for the acceptance. It was an awesome feeling seeing the months of hard work we did pay off in the best way possible. This news means that I’ll get to also have a few days in Glasgow to present the findings of the paper. Related to this, we’re working on a continuation of this paper using some of the ideas we’ve sketched out in the last few months. I’m expecting that that will also be quite fruitful. ...

I’ve been working as a research volunteer at BILSEN for the last 3 months and the work has been quite eye-opening. I’ve had a chance to experience academia before, hopefully, I get into more academia :p I’m assuming that this will be my most methodical blog post so far (I have turned on the table of contents for this post, I am that serious :d). The rest of this post is composed of my recent findings about academic work. ...