Koray Er

last week i discovered thelounge [1] "The self-hosted web IRC client". which made me fall back in love with irc again. the setup on my 1€/month vps took like 5 minutes, the https certificate another 10. in the past i used znc [2], and it was such a hustle…

i have made a browser-based, text-only, futsal manager game. no ads, no graphics, no active internet needed. feel free to check it out at: https://fm.koray.at/

recently, i became a licensed amateur radio operator. germany's federal network agency introduced a new entry class, and passing the test was easy for me because i studied about 8 minutes of anki's [1] each day for 2 months. i was probably ready earlier,…

your judgment is pretty good, and if you are stuck between two options, it often does not matter which one you choose - life is 50% luck anyway. the most stressful moments of my youth were when we had a big exams in school because of all of the decisions i

i consume my music on an ipod shuffle 4. since it has no display it reads the name of the playlists and i can navigate them using the buttons. however, i dont listen to playlists but albums. to get around this, i create a playlist in itunes for every album

i was denied boarding for not having a passport. here is what i have learned: - uk entry needs eu citizens to hold a passport - incomplete id can clear check-in and security but not boarding - dus terminal c police can sometimes give temporary passport -…

headwind wings flutter in vain nature's treadmill

for the last year i have been carrying my documents on a 32gb microsd but since the data is so sensitive, i am afraid of losing it. the obvious answer was to encrypt it, but how?

textonly.website was a "text-only list of text-only websites". according to the wayback machine it was active from 2017-2018. i personally found the archived version a few weeks ago and decided to revive it. so i bought the domain and started my own list.…

Max Bill Ulmer Hocker (1954) Adrian Frutiger Univers (1957) Dieter Rams Braun RT 20 (1961) Massimo Vignelli New York Subway Map (1970) Otl Aicher Organisationskomitee fuer die Spiele der XX.

as for many designers, dieter rams is one of my heroes, but in his famous 10 principles for good design [1], one is missing: good design is accessible. if i need a place to sit, a street curb, or even the floor, is the most accessible. if your innovative,…

in the past, i've been quite frustrated by unnecessary large-scale technologies. these are technologies that only work because they rely on the advances of modern civilizations, such as electricity or complicated manufacturing processes. the opposite is s…

i was recently in a hotel and in the room was a basket with some games like: miniature chess, a yoyo, and among other things, a rubik's cube. i have solved a rubik's cube before so of course i played around with it. one thing led to another and my youtube…

beating the chess world champion and my thesis MY BACHELOR THESIS after 2 years of procrastination, i finally finished my bachelor thesis. i'm happy about the result, but even more happy about the fact that it's finally over. at the moment, it's only avai…

some thoughts about independence, privacy and my text editor not opening.