Earlier this week, I tried sharing a song on Instagram Stories “Füsun Önal – Ah Nerede“, the 2004 release. Spotify → Share → Instagram. Something we all do a thousand times. But instead of the album cover, Instagram opened with a completely unrelated person’s Instagram profile screenshot. Not mine. Not Spotify’s. Someone else’s — essentially … Read more
Today, once again, half the internet went dark not because of a global power failure or a cyber-attack, but because a single AWS region, us-east-1 (N. Virginia), had a bad day. Perplexity went down. Amazon itself stumbled. Substack, Signal, Fortnite, and countless others vanished into the ether. Even services like Statuspage.io, used by companies to … Read more
In the vast expanse of the internet, security is not just a luxury; it’s a necessity. For web developers and system administrators, ensuring that web traffic is encrypted is a foundational aspect of protecting users’ data. Enter Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority (CA) that has revolutionized the way we secure websites. … Read more
You have probably noticed a fair few people walking around with smartwatches. The trend might be causing you to scratch your head, trying to figure out what the fuss is all about. There are multiple brands that are decently known for manufacturing smartwatches, though Apple (unsurprisingly) is probably at the top. Whether it is curiosity … Read more
Hello, fellow keyboard warriors and terminal whisperers! 🤓 Ever find yourself lost in the infinite sea of repositories on GitHub, and you’ve to clone a bunch of them? Now, we all know how it goes: copy the clone URL, open your terminal, type ‘git clone’, paste the URL, and hit Enter. Sounds easy, right? But … Read more
Long before Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video transformed the way we consume content, there was a fascinating, lesser-known method for watching movies online: Telnet movies. These text-based movies, transmitted over the Telnet protocol, were a stepping stone in the evolution of internet streaming. In this blog post, we will delve into the history of … Read more
First of all, hello from sunny Izmir. Today is Tuesday but I feel like off-day. I know, I need to write technical articles for the community that is working with passionate people. It’s on the way, I promise… The title is “Cloud: Using NAT on Private Subnets”. The article is comparing serverless NAT service and … Read more
I don’t know how many times I set up a blog to myself to take notes or share some technical information about Linux servers and some Linux software such as nginx, phpMyAdmin, MySQL, PHP-FPM, etc but I never success about writing a blog post regularly. My blog address contains my first name and my last … Read more