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Hi dear reader! Notice In August I will be moving to an anonymous personality on the web. Of course, to prevent tracing me back, I wont announce the new website and the name here. If you like my blog and follow me here or in any social media, please contact me . I will gather gather the emails and send a notification email about the change when I finish the migration. Why the Name Change? I've…
Sad afternoon. Last year I was following an old guy's Instagram page where he used to upload a short video of himself, reading a poem he wrote, and occasionally recording the healthy breakfast he was having with a vinyl playing in the background. There was a new video almost every day, the poems were like a dairy; about what his feelings, events happened, guests came over, etc. A little earlier,…
Her there. I hope you are doing well :) Today I want to talk a little about letting things - people, things, friendships - go. Or more precisely, my inability to do so. Recently there have been two events in my life that necessities writing about this matter. Hopefully it will help me see things more clearly. For the past two weeks I have been tidying up my photo archive, which has been going…
Good evening, reader. I have always noticed Black Americans with names of Arabic origin, but never thought more about it. A little ago, while listening to Yusef Lateef's Detroit: Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83° album, I decided to check the wiki of Yusef Lateef, but couldn't pass the first paragraph - where it mentions the "Ahmadiyya Community in United States". You can learn more about it on the…
Read the original post by David here Good day all :) I just came across Kev's answer, and as this is something I've been thinking a lot recently, decided to dedicate a post to this. Thanks for reading in advance <3 This honestly is a question that has always been in a corner of my mind, and I could never come up with set of rules to decide whether or not to tell someone. At times, I get…
Movies conclude. In a way, don't they spoil us? By showing the end of the story? But -- in life, things do not end, do they? Characters live, memories stay, and emotions are more than a letterboxd review -- they are carried a lifetime. Movies end, because writers want to show the whole, and we do want to see it end. After all, we are good at inventing things to see the ending -- religions, the…
Well well well. As the title suggests, I might have been radicalized by the media on the topics of immigration, racism and capitalism fucking us on a daily basis. "Radicalization" is too strong of a word, but it kinda makes a good title. I am not radicalized in any way - it is just that I think more and more about these topics, to the point of being constantly angry at stuff and people. Maybe in…
Good evening all! While writing this, I am on ICE512 train, going to Mannheim. I have a transfer there, to the train that will take me home. It is 18:20 now, and the sun is about to set. This time is called dusk, if I remember correctly. I can barely see a glimpse of the sun behind the thick purple clouds. An orange tint is reflected on the clouds, and it is beautiful. Grass is dark green now. It…
I started my career in programming about 6 years ago, during peak covid lockdown. And except four months in the middle, I've been working from home for the entirety of my career. Over the years, you start to get used to it. You can build your life around work easily, do lots of things that office workers cant easily do. But even after all these years of WFH, I still do not understand some stuff. I…
This is a backup of a post by Jan Wildeboer over on fediverse. Putting it here because it couldn't be more accurate. Centralisation makes abuse cheap. Decentralisation makes abuse expensive and cost-prohibitive. That's why the influencer business model doesn't really work in the #Fediverse. Here you can't buy sentiment. But many try (and waste money while trying, good ;) That's the more positive…
Hello friends! I finally gathered the courage and moved my blog to the new backend. I am very proud of it. It is what I have always wanted from a blog management program. Dynamic widgets, file-system backed, and easily extendable. I called this "Tanager". Tanager is the name of a family of birds. Second biggest family. But there is not much thought behind the choice. I just like birds, and a…
Hey! This post is me ranting. It might feel incomplete or pointless. I just wanted to take it off of my mind. I was just reading a quite interesting thread on mastodon, by Jan Wildeboer. The post Maybe unrelated to the original post, but following phrase caught my attention: "I have to weigh what is best for the company and the employees" Interesting.. This sentence implies that the best for the…
[This is an incomplete post] Hi there :) I feel bad for not posting here since January. There has been a lot of good stuff to write and share, but I idk why, I didn't have the urge to blog about them. Anyway. This post is a special one. It is a letter to Sandy - the record-shop lady. Thank you! After I finally found an apartment in Koblenz, I started to love walking around pointlessly. The city,…
Hello, reader. If you've been following my blog, you already know that I migrated to Germany last year, in October, and was having little bit of hard time socializing. But two yesterday a very nice thing happened, let me tell you about it :) It was December when I received an email from university, they were informing us about a wonderful program that happens in some regions of Koblenz - Friends…
Hey there :) So, I moved the pages around. Apparently, in my Hugo config file, I had specified a weird URL generation format, which I never liked. I like them categorized like /blog/:year/:slug . I guess this is called taxonomy or something, not sure. Anyway, I changed the URL template, and broke all the links to my posts on the Internet. Sure, there is not much, but still, Cool URIs never change…
Welcome, dear reader. When we are young kids, in most cases, the worst possible is expected from us. At least this was the case in my circle. The behavior of the teachers (and school staff) has always been very similar to that of the guards. This was the case with parents as well. For example, Someone takes their colored pencils out and spread them to floor to start coloring something, they are…
Hey there! So, I've recently started using FreshRSS and today, when I checked it, I saw a trend going on - Blog Questions Challenge. I always tried to not write posts about blogging, because it feels like there are enough, and people explain stuff so good that I don't have anything to add. But this one looks fun, so here you are! Enjoy :) Why did you start blogging in the first place? Well, I fell…
Hi there, happy new year! 1.5 hours ago we welcomed the new year in Koblenz, and it was great. There was a lot of fireworks at Deutsches Eck, me and my friend went there and watched them. My favorite kind was those that go up and explode into directed particles, they look a lot like shooting stars. I actually dislike fireworks, because they are harmful for everything, from plants to animals. Plus…
Good evening. Saturdays are great. You know you are free today, and you still have one more day till the next week. Even while vacations, weekends are just weekends! 😂 Being a winter Saturday, today was also a great day. I woke up at 10 and saw the sun is shining through my thick black curtains. It was very bright! I immediately put a disco album on the turntable and started the day dancing,…
Good evening, dear reader. Yesterday I decided to create my "Forever Minecraft World". Minecraft is a game that I will never stop playing. Of course, there will be a lot of long breaks, but I will never stop playing it. So, it is only natural that I have a lot of worlds that I finish the game in or give up, build different concepts, set fancy rules for myself to enhance the experience, etc. This…
Hi all :) Today is a great day. It is very sunny in Koblenz, temperature is not freezing :D (around 5 deg. Celsius) and my holiday vacation continues. What a great day to listen to some music! Well, that is exactly what I did, and wanted to share with you all <3 Jamiroquai - High Times (Singles 1992-2006) I have bought it around a week ago, and mentioned it in one of my previous blog posts too. It…
Hey there :) Just saw my Mastodon friends @Brandon , @jake4480 , @jedda , and many others sharing software they've been using in 2024, so, here you are, my compilation. I have a mobile phone - Pixel 7 - which I love and don't think of changing. I recently replaced its battery myself (thanks to iFixit tutorial ) and it is an overall great phone. Up until November, I was using GrapheneOS , but later…
Good evening! Today is a blessed day and I am a happy man today. The day started by learning that I got a pay rise. A good one. In the afternoon, I spent the day by cleaning the apartment. I didn't have proper cleaning tools, but today they got delivered - so I cleaned everywhere nicely. Feels more like home, hehe. Later that day my brother messaged me, asking if I can get him a book. So I left…
Hello :) First of all, sorry for not writing enough. A lot happened in past months, and I've been very busy. Initially I was planning to write a "First Month in Germany" post, but life was stressful and I didn't want to push it. Blogging feel weird when I force myself into it. TLDR is, things are mostly great, and I'm looking forward :^) I arrived Germany at 10th of October. Had a bit stressful…
I am reading an article by Joan Westenberg , called " The Biggest Tech Scandals in Politics ". It is a nice article, and I will finish reading it, but couldn't resist but react to this sentence from the article: Few tools have redefined political discourse like Twitter. And no, I’m not going to call it X while I still have a functioning brain cell. Before we begin, let me say that I dislike Elon…
Hi there. It is nice to see y'all here. This will be a quick one as I don't have much time, and been thinking of writing this for some time now. I've recently found a very kind and cozy place in the Internet ( the update ). The 500.social . We have been hanging out there for about two months now, and it has been nothing but a great experience so far. And there is a person in that server which I am…
So, there is this channel on YouTube, called MariMari142 . She has a beautiful taste in music.. For over three years, I've been discovering new songs from her channel, and I get excited every time she uploads a video. They are always the same. In the background, there is a song, and pictures fading in and out for the video. This style has a strong 2010s vibe, and I love it so much. She has been…
I just read Kev's blog entry , reacting to Matt's , titled "WP Engine is not WordPress". And this is my reaction to the original entry. Firstly, I think there isn't any problems with the original post. What Matt discusses is that WPEngine - a huge company that uses WordPress - is disabling revisions by default, while making it extremely hard to enable. And how this practice might spread to others.…
Hello! I know writing these posts at 2:00 AM is not the best idea, but I need to force myself into doing these. Anyway. Hello again! So, a week ago, I heard about Blaugust while I was browsing 500.social , and here we are. I am trying to at least publish handful of these this month. Let me start with some news first! I recently signed up for the 500.social , and it has been going great! I truly…
Hello there. I'm here to make a confession. I have eaten good today, tidied up the apartment I'm living, did some good stuff, now I feel like I need to vent for a bit. I got my tea, so here we go. So, I don't know shit. And I'm not telling this like "ah, I am a smart guy, so I know there are a lot of stuff that I still don't know". It is not like that gaussian distribution graph, explaining that…
Hi there. Just wanted to quickly write about why I'm not using my RSS reader to read posts anymore. So, as you probably know, for the past year or so, I have been using Miniflux - an amazing RSS feed aggregator/reader application, almost in a daily basis. But not for past month. I have finally came to the conclusion that using RSS reader to read posts removes the "personality" from them. Just like…
Hi there. This will be a short one. I just wanted to thank every single good person on earth. This morning I was scrolling Facebook, and as always, getting angry because of the politics. And I suddenly came across a post about some journalists' images. They were imprisoned while doing their job. Later, I read an article - again on politics of certain country. Felt the same. And couple of minutes…
Salam :^) Blogumda indiyə qədər səhv etmirəmsə yalnız bir ədə azərbaycanca post var, bu fakt nəsə xoşuma gəlmədi. Düzü, normalda bu mövzuları problem etmirəm. Amma bəzən də elə olur ki, vətənpərvər hislərim baş qaldırır. Ən son şengen vizasına müraciət etmək üçün heçbir səfirlikdən yer rezerv edə bilməyəndə olmuşdu. Təxminən belə mənzərə hiss eləmişdim. Ala belə şey olar?! Ona-buna yalvarıram ki…
Hi there. I hope you are doing well. It is 4:00AM right now, and it really is time to sleep. But I did sleep for four hours this evening, so it is easier to justify not sleeping. I had some headache before, now it is okay. Anyways, this one hopefully will be a quick one, as writing this popped to my mind suddenly. It has been some time now that, almost every night I spend couple of hours browsing…
Hi all! How are you? Yes, I am interested in your answer, and you can contact me to share how are you. Recently I got invited to an event called "TechBrains 2023". The theme for the event was - not surprisingly - AI. Ah yes, today even philosophy podcasts talk about AI (thanks for the quote, brother). Anyways, I was excited to be invited, so quickly chose my topic. Uhm, something about AI and Free…
Hi, dear reader. I hope you are well. This night I wanted to talk a bit about evenings. Evenings - to be more precise - that I don't have much to do. TLDR is, they are nice. I mean, I don't hate living them, they feel like time is slow again. If you have been following (or looking around) my blog, by now, you should now that for a year, I have been working a lot 1 . And you most probably know that…
Hello, reader! This is quite unusual to me, but in past, I've said I'll be doing more quick mind-dumps, so here we go! This evening I was watching The Primeagen 's stream, and there was a small thing that got me thinking. "Choosing your hard" There was this gal, telling "Choose your hard!". The video goes like ( source (r/ThePrimeagenReact) ): Going to gym is hard, yes, but being fat and ugly is…
Hi There! This will be a short one, I'm working on another post, which I'm planning to publish oncoming days. Couple of months ago, I installed Windows because of the work reasons. First I thought "Okay, I'll just keep this simple and bare minimum, won't customize to match my needs" , etc. However, while installing the OS, it asked my to write a name for my PC, and I said ofc, I'll change.…
Hi! This will be a quick note / guide for setting up an automatic image upload flow in Typora. To follow along, you will need to have a S3 compatible storage. Actually, any storage system that rclone supports. (Note: it is a lot!) Here is the the overview of systems that rclone support . Ranging from ProtonDrive to S3. Every damn thing, lol! I have configured a custom domain for my S3 bucket, but…
Hi there. It is nice to see you here again. As always, I'll start by telling what am I doing right now, and then start the main topic. I'm currently lying on my bed, and was planning to sleep couple of minutes ago. Then I remembered I had a topic to write about. It is hot here. I have the laptop on my pillow to lift it up, so I can easily write. But it limits my mobility, so if mum or dad comes…
Hi all! Finally, after 4 months, I'm back with a new blog post. This one should contain a lot, because - well - a lot has happened, but I won't be doing so as it will take quite a bit of time and dedication that I don't have enough. So, I'm at Shamakhi, a district in Azerbaijan. It is not the most famous one for its tourism (afaik), but we found a nice and quite place to stay, called "Sakit göl"…
Hi, dear reader! This time I got a kind of weird (one might call cringe) writing for you. So, today morning, as always, I turned my computer on and spotify got opened on startup. I like it to start on startup, because it takes literally one click to start new playlist for the morning. Something like "Discover weekly", "Morning jazz", and etc. Anyways, I put the music on and the very first song got…
Hey, dear Reader! Again, I'm gonna start by describing what I'm doing right now - it is 1:52AM and I'm at my uncle's, writing this on my phone, using an app called Simple markdown (add link). It is not the best, but it was ~2mb at F-Droid and just works. Okay, let's start with my most recent thought. If you've been following my blog recently, you prolly know I've deleted Instagram and Facebook…
Good morning | afternoon | evening, dear reader :^) This post is written in a different environment than others. Usually, I write at nights when there is nothing to do, but writing blog post. Oh, don't get me wrong, I usually waste that time or do a thing that I'll be writing about in a bit. But sometimes, you feel like posting something. Also, I'm currently sitting at the main room of my home,…
Hi all! Today, I'm planning to write a relatively lengthy post about the startup we've been working on, for about 4 months now. Ideation As you probably know (I've been talking about these in earlier posts), we were working on two different startups in late 2021 and early 2022. After having quite a bit of difficultues regarding finding funds, monetizing it, having go-to-market strategy, launching…
Hi there! It is me, again, coming to you with another status update. So, recently I've been looking at and refining my blog, and decided to write another post. But I was not sure about what to write. Yep. Thing that should be at first place was not there. Anyway, I'm writing, and you probably have better things to do, but procrastination is happening. I've been planning to write about the third…
By the end of this post, we will have centralized configuration files and necessary codes to ensure all our services will work from same configuration files and EntityFrameworkCore is able to add/remove migrations, update/drop database using those centralized configuration files. Why do we need to centralize? While working on somewhat complex web services (like microservices, etc.) we often work…
Giriş Salam, bu gün free softvare haqqında danışacam. İlk öncə, free software nədir? Free software kiber dünyanın azad olunması üçün baş vermiş ilk çevrilişdir deyə bilərik. Əminəm ki burada hər kəs gündə azı 5-6 saat komputerdən istifadə edir. Bəs komputerlərimizi idarə edən kimdir? Burada 2 yol var. Ya biz proqramları istifadə edirik, ya da proqramlar (arxasındakı şirkətlər) bizdən istifadə…
Status Update July 26 Well, pretty unusual start we had today. Usually I start by talking about some startup or career updates. But this time, nah man, I don't feel that way. This is a bit moody one and I should probably keep this private. Putting this much info about me and my thoughts makes me uncomfortable. I also don't want to loose these and GitHub is almost permanent. The only catch is…
Status update for 17th June Hi again! This is continuation of previous post , which I said I'll be completing in a few days. That "few" days turned into few months. Discover Europe The last thing I talked about is how we were waiting for DiscoverEU program. Well, it did not go well and we were not selected as one of the 4 teams. Actually, the worst part is selected projects were the ones we…