DisplayLink strikes again

Company website is live


This past 2 weeks, I tried to update my company website. So it looks more
professional. Previous design was only my logo, company name, address, email, 
vat and company number.

![old website](/post/2026-09-24_company_website_is_live_1.png)

The new website looks better in my opinion, the logo has also changed.

![new website](/post/2026-09-24_company_website_is_live_2.png)

So I build it with Angular 22 and used TailwindCSS, the backend is just plain
express, but it is hosted on Netlify, so using express is a little bit
overkill, as it will be used as netlify-function.

The only interactive part is the contact page, you can send a message.
Writing the code, is done manually, no AI used. The logo and colors are also
done by my brother. The pictures are AI generated, the text are originally 
generated by AI, but then I changed it a little. So you can see the same 
kind of text on other company websites as well.

During development, I wanted to add extra pages like services, projects,...
but I didn't had content for those pages yet. And didn't wanted to generate
example page, so I removed them. I'll add them, back once I've decided
what to put inside those pages.

However, I did make it mobile-first.

![mobile version](/post/2026-09-24_company_website_is_live_3.png)

### It's a really basic website, why did it take 2 weeks?

I didn't worked hours per day on the site. When I started, that day I just
created the main stylelless version, added routing, think about what to
add, what to remove. Then looked several times to other company websites
to have an idea what to build. Started coding for 1 hour with a lot of
distraction. Then didn't looked at it for 3 days, then coded for another 
3 hours with distraction, ...

I'm also not a designer, so I do care that it should be nice, but I don't 
have a strong opinion as a UI/UX designer. So I also spend a lot of time
experimenting with different TailwindCSS classes.

During those 2 weeks, I was also thinking about being more available on
social media, as previously explained, I don't have a LinkedIn account.
(little sidestory, I tried to recreate LinkedIn account, but after you 
update your profile, spend some hours RE-adding all your work experiences, 
skills, RE-adding your contacts, ..., this F***ing company force you to
identify yourself with official documents, which pissed me of again, so I
stopped doing it again). So I decided to use the most privacy friendly 
company there is Meta, with Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook. I already have an
account on those 3, but I didn't used them for more then years, so I picked
them out of the dust, and now I will post "work" stuff on them, to become
more socially available.

I will also update this blog and make the tags clickable, and add my 
social accounts next to the rss icon in the footer of the page.

I also published my first post on those platforms :). Asked AI to give me an
ffmpeg script to animate my company logo, make it "reel"-ready, and put that
video on all of those platforms.


Kind regards


Identity on internet


A year ago, I had (nearly) the same issue, so I 
[looked](https://adem.ayt.ac/p/2024-10-09_displaylink) that up. I updated 
my laptop, and also the kernel packages to v6.18.2. This time I didn't 
forget to update the "-headers" package, but after rebooting, the external
monitor didn't worked. Followed the same troubleshooting as the previous time.
And it was the same, evdi didn't get compiled/build/maked for the new kernel.

Well... Actually, the package didn't existed anymore in the repository... So
I couldn't just update them to the latest and hope that it will work... it 
got renamed to "evdi-dkms". While trying to update evdi to evdi-dkms,
displaylink package was blocking it... for some reason...(probably, it 
depends on evdi, so pacman tried to remove evdi before installing evdi-dkms,
so it got confused...)

The fix was to remove evdi AND displaylink completely. And reinstall the 
new packages.

```
sudo pacman -R evdi displaylink
sudo pacman -S evdi displaylink
```

The removed packages are `displaylink-6.2-1` and `evdi-1.14.10-1`.
The installed packages are `displaylink-6.2-1` and `evdi-dkms-1.14.11-2`.

Also I entered exactly the command above, so it's not a typo, I entered 
`evdi` and pacman installed `evdi-dkms`, I guess it is also aliased to the
correct package, which is great :)

Removing and reinstaling (the same version of) displaylink was the easiest
way, instead of updating evdi (renamed) package and trying to fix the
conflicts.

After installing is done, just stop and restart the displaylink service and 
the monitor will work again.

```
sudo systemctl stop displaylink.service
sudo systemctl start displaylink.service
```

In my previous post about this issue, I refered to myself to write down how I
feel towards displaylink. So here it is:

I hate to install additional packages to just use a hub, to extend and use
another monitor... The previous hub I used, didn't required that I install 
extra drivers to just be able to use external monitors. It just worked, the 
reason I changed to this one was, that it didn't supported multiple screens 
with different resolutions, but it never consumed too much cpu power, I didn't
needed aur/yay to install a driver.
The most frustrating part is that an update can just make you lose a couple
hours extra after the "actual" update process... because the package is not
available anymore, or they renamed it to make it "more consistent"...
Ok, ok, I do admit, I liked it the evdi and displaylink packages are moved
to main repository instead of aur, which kind of increases the feeling of
trust, and also that it works with the latest kernel(I didn't payed attention,
but, apparently, I was using an old kernel, which I also noticed during this
fix, so I updated that also).


Kind regards



This is more of a rant, I already wrote about this in January this year,
but never published it...

Forcing people to identify themself on internet is totaly absurd. I'm against
it. Especially because our policies, national and international, sucks. I live
in Europe, so we have the GDPR, but what does it mean? Nobody knows exactly.
"Right to disapear" some would say, so you send a mail to a company, they are
forced to give your data to you and need to remove all info related to you from
ALL their systems. But does it happen? I don't think so, even if the audit,
they had, "proved" that they are "working on it", or "they actually remove". 
How do you check that. I did create an account on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, Whatsapp, Google, ... I deleted some, then recreated, then polluted,
then deleted, ... but lastly the created accounts, I didn't bother to delete
them, I don't use them anymore, so the accounts exists, but I can't access or
I didn't logged in for a very long time.

So they created GDPR, but at the same time, they intruduced KYC, which is a bs
abbreviation, it stand for "Know your customer", which is at first introduced
in financial world (that I know of). To buy a coin, you need to verify to 
whatever service, it can also be a scammer. Then they expanded it to nearly all
services that exists on the internet.

Currently I only use Signal as chat app. Most of my friends, families, 
colleagues, ... are not using it, and try to convince me to go back to
Whatsapp. Even if I tell them, why I don't want to use, and why I don't trust
it. Still they are trying, and the most bs comment I get is "everybody is using
it, why are you doing like you are special, and just use it too". Until they
see something bad happened at Meta (or any other big company). Then they
try to tell me the things I told them, like it is the first time they heared
it. So I gave up on explaining why I don't use it, why I don't trust it, and
act kind of stupid (like "ohhh, I didn't know, how they can do such a thing").
If you want to use any service, do it, I'm not the one to tell you not to use
it, but don't try to put pressure on me to also use the "awesome app" you are
really fond of and that everybody is using.

Then, there is media, which is a weapon. And the one controlling it will tell
and convince a lot of people. Like I said, I use Signal. When someone asks me
how they can contact me, I give my number, and ask if they use or want to use
Signal (most of the time, they don't want to install another app). And some
people tell me the exact same bs the media is telling everybody "Do you have
something to hide, why are you using this shady app".
So if you tell people that you use Tor, DarkWeb, Telegram, Signal, Session,
host your own mailserver, ... they associate those with criminal activities. 
When you create a social profile on Facebook or Twitter, ... with fake
accounts. Again, why are you trying to hide your identity, are you doing some
shady things? Are you catfishing, ...

Back to my main topic, those are also little things that got normalized. Giving
up your identity on internet is normal, so you show to everyone that you don't
hide anything. Well... until shit hits the fan. Until the things you share with
the world is used against you, for whatever reason. To manipulate you to buy
things, to charge you for something you said 15 years ago, to "cancel" you, ...

For me internet was a place to do whatever you want, without someone looking
over your shoulders. I don't know when, we gave that up and I really hate it.

LinkedIn forces me to accept the new TOS, if I don't accept it, I can't login
to my account, so I decide to remove it completely, to be able to remove it, I
need to provide real identity evidence, then I can remove it.

I drive a car with Android Automotive, forces me to use GoogleMaps, only 
alternative I can use is Waze (which is also owned by Google). To be able to
install anything, I need to login with a Google Account, so I create one,
after 1-2 days, the account gets logged out, I can't login with that account
on my car. Then I try it on a computer, and search the internet, why this is
happening, and I need to identity myself, provide real evidence of my age and 
country I live in, so they know "I'm legally old enough to drive a car".

The school my kid is going uses Facebook private group to share school
pictures, I tried to create an account, but during account creation I need to
provide real evidence, with id card or driver license and video/picture of me
holding a paper with todays date on it.

And ofcourse, the Chat Control Act they wanted to deploy on EU as well.
Which I'm totally against it. You are going to force every citizen to give out
their info to you, meanwhile, you (as government or state) are the exception
to talk privately with whomever you want, because you can have "some national
secrets".

The explanation is always the same, "we do it to catch criminals and make your
life more secure". I know that it is absolutely not for security.

Let me tell you why it isn't for catching criminals, but more for controling
the citizens. Who did fund the "freedom fighters", that turned up to be 
terrorist organizations? Who were the connections of the worlds nr 1 sex 
trafficer? Where did they find the millions of Euros in suitcases? Those 
weren't the citizens you want to impose the Chat Control on.

I hope that more and more people will be able to break from the cycle where you
need to sacrifice your freedom, your identity, your privacy to just get some 
short term convenience. This is what I hope for.
But deep down, I know that it has always been like this, and will continue to
be like this. At least, we can be sceptical about anything that is pushed to
us. The question "Why" is very powerfull, just don't be shy to ask that
question a lot, even if they tell you that is forbidden.

When I started to ask the question "why", a lot of things became easier to
understand, I made a lot of progress in life itself, much became clear to me.
It is not easy to ask, but we al start curious as kids. So we already have it
in ourselves, just need to find that curiosity back.

This is a lot of ranting for one day. Hopefully the weekend will the sun shine,
so we can enjoy it.

Kind regards










Life


Ofcourse, I need to have an opinion on todays hot topic: AI.

Recently, a colleague, who became a friend, discussed his usage of AI with me.
Which also triggered me to think more about it. And I realised that I don't 
have the urge to use AI for the time being.

Before I start, I want to make clear that this is purely my own opinion, not 
what I think that everybody should apply. It's based on my own experience.

When ChatGPT was still a fancy tool used by the hyper geek, who always want to
test latest trends, I didn't payed a lot of attention to it. However I did 
worked before "AI" was a thing, with it's predecessor "machine learning", where
you upload some pictures and the algoritm (which is also a fancy hyped word of
this era as well) will tell you what's in the picture, you give it an address 
or city and it will give you the rent/buy prices of properties, cctv takes your 
picture and compares it with pictures in database and matches with x percent 
accuracy and stuff like that.

It was amazing, but the algoritm was still a mistery, so I was kind of 
curious about what was behind. But didn't searched it at that time. 

When ChatGPT was there, I tested the webclient with silly questions and that
was it and didn't used it (or any other AI tool) anymore(directly). Today,
without noticing it, we are all using AI in one way or another, so we are using
it indirectly.

Some developers used AI tools, integrated them in their dev environment, forced
themself to use it for a period (a week, month, a project, ...), then shared
their experiences. It was very interesting, but still wasn't enough to
convince me to use it myself. I did try to convince myself to use it (pay
extra attention to "try to convince"). But didn't take any steps to use it. 

Followed some AI related news/blogposts, but still it was always like 2 sides:
You are absolutely FOR or AGAINST AI! Like every subject. 

To make it clear, I'm not for or against AI at all. I love technology, so I'm
totally for using all the tools in your possession to make life (or at least
your life) easier, not harder. But I'm also for enjoying life, even if it will
make it slightly harder, but more fun. And most of all, I'm more for 
privacy and freedom.

What do I mean by that. I'm for usage of AI, the more people use it, the more
it will learn, but most of the AI is hosted on large infrastructures of big 
corporations, that benefit from your personal information. And most people will
get used to those AI tools, and start sharing (knowingly or unknowingly) some
private info, and those info can be used to benefit you, or benefit the company
or the ones who will pay to benefit from you. 

Secondly, I learned (or unlocked) a part of myself, if I want to do something 
(like learning, trying, ...), I love to do it the hard way. In that way, I 
learned and loved using split keyboard, (neo)vim, linux base commands, renovate
kitchen and bathroom, be able to fix plumbing, setup private home-automation, 
talk to strangers, ...

Third, I love to use my keyboard to write, it can be anything (writing code, an
article, message, ..., I even write every time the ending of my mails the "kind
regards..."-part). And I also still love to think about the actions I take, and
don't really like to just copy paste something that I'm given. one clear
example is: when I code, I try 5 different ways, before searching for an answer
in Stackoverflow, even when I found the solution there, I will write it myself
instead of copy pasting the code, and I will try to find help pages or
documentation(github, npmjs, man-pages) about the code I'm writing.
I always close the autofill/suggestions from chat applications, so I try to
come up with the word I intent to say myself, if I don't know how to write it
down, I will lookup in google, I write my sentences as correct as possible, if 
I write it incorrect, I hope the person that I'm talking to will correct me,
over and over again, until I don't make that error anymore.

By using AI, I've the feeling that I'm delegating the important stuff, that I
love to do, to something/someone else. I'm not learning (or I'm unlearning) 
those things I love to excel at. But I know that I need to try it one day, to
have the experience myself, and see if I will start loving other/new things,
while passing the things I currently love to AI. I just don't have the urge or
motivation to start using AI yet. Once I'll start having the motivation, then
I'm sure I will force myself to use it.

Lastly, I just think that AI is not mature enough as they portray it in the
media, and it will take some time to become really mature. Also it is in a
"hype-thingy" stage, so when the hype is over there will be a second or
"reviving-hype" stage. Once that is also over it will start to really grow and
become more mature to integrate it (not just in IT) in our lives.

So those are my conclusions:

- do I fear to missing out? no
- do I need to invest my energy in it? currently no, in near future maybe, 
  in future, yes
- do I like the "old" way of doing stuff? absolutely
- will AI take control over humans? nope
- will AI replace jobs? in future yes, even a lot of IT related jobs
- replacing jobs is it bad? nope, we need to think of new jobs
- what will I suggest to someone interested in AI? 
  - if you are curious and motivated, please learn AI and use it, try to 
    integrate it as much as your motivation goes, and share your findings with 
    everyone. 
  - if you're interested, watch some AI stuff, search information about it
    to see if you find any motivation to go deeper.
  - if you are just interested, but you know you don't have motivation, don't
    wast a lot of time in it and follow the things that motivates you and you
    love to do.

AI is just another trending topic, that will become a part in our life, but not
today. Enjoy life the way you want. I love the curiosity, and excelling at
things I love to do, so I will keep doing those things, even if it is harder to
do, while AI can just do it in seconds.

This was just my opinion, I wanted to write down (also forcing myself to write
blogpost like diary from time to time). I know people have their own opinions,
facts, believes which are not the same as mine, feel free to send me your
opinions about it, I'm very pleased to read them.

Kind regards



Taal leren


Life feels fun, life feels hard, life sucks, life is beautifull. Whatever 
you're feeling right now. Life is happening.

Sometimes I feel down, I don't know why. Those days feels like everything is 
collapsing, everyone is annoying, nobody can bring you light. You feel 
like drowning. But one thing I noticed, on those days, even when it's hard, 
there are some little things, someone or something that will fire the sparkle 
of hope.

- I felt down, first day I arrived at my new job, that day I saw the 
  beautifull smile of a sunshine. Everyday I went to work, it just made my day.
- I gave up the joy of programming, I found ThePrimeagen, he made me love 
  back programming.
- I love music but, can't play. I saw my beautifull sister play music with 
  her guitar. Made me learn notes and cords.
- ...

Most of those things happened when I felt depressed. Life just took me down so 
hard, at the same time, life gave me this little sparkle of hope. That little 
sparkle just got bigger and let me do awesome thing.

I will admit that there were times that I wouldn't notice those sparkles. I 
know that lots of people are strugling with them too. Asking what's the 
purpose of living in this depressing world, just know that there is someone 
who wants to listen. World is a dangerous place, making it easy, making it 
livable, making it comfortable is at our own hands.

Don't think that there isn't anyone who wants to listen to you, there is, even
when it's hard, just try to look beyond the fog. You won't regret it.

Just don't forget that nobody will feel the same as you do. But it doesn't 
mean that they can't understand or that they can't just listen to you. Try to 
share the weight on your shoulders with those who care about you. 

I know that life isn't easy, and not everyone gets the same chances, but hey
if you don't get them, create your own path, which will unlock more exiting
new things that you can explore in your own life.

Know that every night will be followed by day. Those feelings will fade with 
time and more cheerfull days will follow them. I hope from the bottom of my 
heart that you will see that little sparkle of hope during those times, and
that you will grow stronger.

If you feel like you need to talk, just send mail to hey@ayt.ac

Kind regards


DisplayLink kernel update on Manjaro


Onlangs ben ik gefascineerd met andere talen, vooral hoe ze in sommige
films en liedjes makkelijk kunnen wisselen.

Op een dag was ik alleen met mijn nicht, en we gingen samen iets kijken
op Netflix, ofwel was het een kinderanimatie die ik meer dan 10 keer 
per dag heb gezien, ofwel gingen we iets nieuws bekijken. 
We gingen door de cataloog, en zagen Kpop Demon Hunter. Dit was 
in top 10 voor een tijd en besloten we dit samen te bekijken, maar dan
in het Turks.

Eerst dacht ik dat het weer een animatiefilm ging zijn, zoals alle 
andere musical animatie voor kinderen. Maar deze begon al met een
catchy song en ik was verbaast. Ik wou de rest van de animatie bekijken.

Dan hebben we het opnieuw bekeken met mijn dochter. Ze waren alle
twee verslaafd aan deze animatie. Zoals bij alle andere animatie 
waar ze verslaafd op waren, hebben we sindsdien Kpop demon hunter elke dag
minstens 2 keer bekeken. Ofwel was het in Turks, ofwel in Nederlands.

Persoonlijk ben ik iemand die graag alles in originele taal bekijkt.
Dus heb ik besloten, om het een keer in Engels te bekijken. En ik was 
terug verbaast hoe goed het was. Ik heb wel ondertitels moeten 
aanzetten, omdat er hier en daar Koreaans werd gesproken.

Hierna begon ik terug reality shows, drama's, films, ... te bekijken. 
Meer voor de taal, uitspraak en cultuur. Niet echt voor het verhaal. 
Elke keer leer ik iets nieuws, zoals hoe de mensen denken of reageren 
of gedragen, wat voor humor ze hebben. Maar deze zijn nog steeds niet 
de realiteit, daarvoor keek ik meer naar youtube, waar mensen of influencers
hun ervaring over hun bezoek in verschillende landen delen.

Mijn playlist bevat anderstalige muziek al heel lang, bv. Turkse
liedjes, Westerse pop songs, Punjabi Qawali, Qawai JMetal, Rap,
Traditionele folklore, Classic, Kpop, Jaz, Mongolian Throat singing, ... 
Als een liedje mijn aandacht heeft, (ook al snap ik geen enkel woord), zing 
ik met mijn best gibrish mee en zoek ik de betekenis of verhaal van dat 
liedje, ik wil weten waarover het gaat, en probeer ik me ook te plaatsen 
in de context dat het gezongen wordt.

Met deze gebeurtenissen kreeg ik het idee om talen te leren, want bij 
het luisteren van muziek of kijken van een show in een andere taal 
dat ik ken, moet ik altijd ondertitels aanzetten of de betekenis opzoeken 
van dat onderwerp en die vertalingen/ondertitels zijn niet altijd 
correct vertaald.

Enkele voorbeelden hiervan:
- Liedje over de gevoel die de Brazilianen hebben, als ze hun
  thuisland missen als ze in het buitenland zijn. Leg het 
  maar uit als je de taal niet echt begrijpt.
- Turkse volkliedjes uitleggen als je de Turkse taal/cultuur niet
  kent, maakt de betekenis soms onbegrijpbaar.
- Of religieuze liedjes (of gedichten met een toon) die veel 
  metaphore gebruiken die soms de betekenis totaal onduidelijk maken
  als je de religie/cultuur/context niet kent.

Op school waren de taalvakken mijn zwakste vakken. Ik deed het niet 
graag, enkele heb ik geleerd omdat het belangrijk was om deel te zijn van
de gemeenschap waar ik woonde en uitging.
Turks is mijn moedertaal, ik ben in Vlaanderen opgegroeid, dus ben
ik naar Nederlandstalige school gegaan, dan verhuist naar Brussel
waar het "tweetalig" is, ook daar ben ik naar Nederlandstalige school gegaan,
maar grotendeels van mijn vrienden spraken Frans, en wou ik er bij horen, 
dus sprak ik met gebrekkig Frans, wat toen frustrerend was als een tiener, 
maar wat ik vandaag als een grappige ervaring herinner. Omdat ik altijd 
met pc, programmeren, netwerken, kort gezegt met IT bezig was, en omdat 
de meeste films VHS-tapes (later VCD en DVD), zo goed als nooit "gedubbed"
werden naar Nederlands, maar enkel ondertitels hadden, was Engels leren 
veel makkelijker dan Frans voor mij.

En natuurlijk accenten. Elke persoon in Vlaanderen (die ik ken), 
heeft ooit de verschillende Vlaamse en Hollandse dialecten geprobeerd uit
te spreken. Zoals een Antwerpenaar die West-Vlaams dialect probeerd, 
of een Gentenaar die Limburgs spreekt.
In Turks heb je ook verschillende dialecten en dezelfde leuke 
momenten heb je ook hier. Of verschillen in Engels of Frans waar de
mensen wonen.

Ik kan 4 talen spreken, maar zelfs dan, maak ik heel wat fouten. Zoals
de/het of dt-fouten in het Nederlands, mannelijk/vrouwelijk in het Frans,
verkeerde zinsopbous in het Engels, verkeerde woorden in het Turks.

Dit heeft natuurlijk ook te maken dat mensen rondom mij ook 
meertalig zijn. En we veranderen makkelijk van taal als we een 
zin/woord even niet weten in één taal. Of een zin van één taal in een
andere taal letterlijk vertalen, wat de betekenis veranderd.

Voorbeeld:
- Met mijn ouders spreek ik Turks.
- Mijn broers/zus Turks-Nederlands.
- Vrienden (die ik sinds school ken) Nederlands-Frans.
- Vrienden (vooral buitenlanders + buiten België) Frans-Engels.
- Collega's in Vlaanderen Nederlands-Engels.
- Collega's in Franstalige bedrijven Frans-Engels.
- IT mensen of online Engels

Naast de Talen heb je ook Programmeertalen, het is niet 100% dezelfde
maar je kan het zien als de taal van de machine, en elke 
programmeertaal heeft zijn eigen gramatica, structuur en hoe je het
gebruikt.

Door de shows, muziek, youtube te bekijken, en lui te zijn om altijd 
de ondertitels op te zetten en betekenis te zoeken. Wou ik talen
leren.
Ik twijfelde tussen Spaans en Japans om als eerst te leren. Maar ik kon
niet kiezen welke ik eerst wou doen, dus heb ik het aan de lot gelaten
en munt gegooit. Uitendelijk is het dus Japans geworden.

Eerst heb ik wat info gezocht, dan Duolingo geprobeerd, dan youtube 
leraren gezocht. Maar uiteindelijk heb ik toch besloten om naar een 
taalschool te gaan. Nu leer ik Japans. Naast school kijk ik heel wat Japans 
Content, over ervaring van mensen die daar zijn geweest of wonen, over 
het leren van Japans, ...

Het is maar 1 les van 3u per week + zelfstudie en praktijk die je
zelf wilt insteken. En als ik internet mag geloven (want alles op
internet is altijd juist), zal het ong 3 jaar nemen om een nieuwe
taal deftig te kunnen spreken.

Maar ik wil nog andere talen ook leren en niet om de 3 jaar een
nieuwe taal leren.

Ik heb een weekschema gemaakt, om meerdere talen, instrumenten,
programmeertalen te leren tot eind juni.
Het is een intensieve leerplan, maar als ik het 1 jaar kan 
volhouden, kan ik ook een mening hebben over alles dat ik leer,
welke ik wil voortzetten en welke ik wil stoppen.

Ik ben zelf benieuwd of dit gaat lukken en wat mijn ervaring 
gaat zijn over een jaar. In ieder geval bekijk ik dit als een 
positieve ervaring.

Met vriendelijke groeten





Social stuff


It's been a while that I use Manjaro, my laptop has two usb-c ports, one usb-a and one jack port.
When I'm on my desk I'm connecting to a docking station, to handle all the display, usb stuff.
(Message to myself: In a separate post, I write down my hardware, software and desktop setup, if I find the courage and 
don't forget to don't)

Recently I updated my system, during the update linux kernel also got updated, but the problem is that
the linux-header packages aren't included in this update. 

Normally this wouldn't be an issue, but since my docking station is DisplayLink device, so I need 
to install 2 packages from aur "evdi" and "display-link". (In the past I had some issues, so I installed "evdi-git")

`systemctl status displaylink.service` showed that there was an error, so the service
couldn't start.

`journalctl -xeu displaylink.service` showed this specific issue `modprobe: FATAL: Module evdi not found in directory /lib/modules/6.10.11-2-MANJARO`

I tried to search on internet for a solution, some people using Arch were also having 
this issue, so they downgraded evdi to version 1.14.6 and it got fixed.

I removed evdi-git and displaylink(because evdi is a breaking dependency of displaylink package)

```
pamac remove evdi-git displaylink
pamac install evdi displaylink
```

During the installation of the packages, I noticed that the install process is calling

```
dkms install --no-depmod evdi/1.14.6 -k 5.15.167-1-MANJARO
dkms install --no-depmod evdi/1.14.6 -k 6.6.52-1-MANJARO
```
As you can see the evdi module didn't get installed for the last kernel.

I run the code myself using my latest kernel, I received this error message
```
dkms install --no-depmod evdi/1.14.6 -k 6.6.52-1-MANJARO
```
But got another error instead.

```
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 6.10.11-2-MANJARO cannot be found at /usr/lib/modules/6.10.11-2-MANJARO/build or /usr/lib/modules/6.10.11-2-MANJARO/source
```
And the error also suggested that I install the linux-headers for that kernel version if I want to use it.

To get the installed versions package name I did `pacman -Q | grep -e "linux6"`, this command returned all 
the packages installed that contained linux6
```
linux610 6.10.11-2
linux66 6.6.52-1
linux66-headers 6.6.52-1
```
So I run `pacman -S linux610-headers`, which executed dkms command with latest kernel version as well.

Then I run `xrandr --listproviders`, which didn't showed the monitors connected to docking station

Then I tried `systemctl start displaylink.service`, which started the service and I just saw that my laptop monitor flashed for a moment and my
main monitor opened(but didn't showed anything yet).

Then I re-run `xrandr --listproviders`, now it showed my main monitor. So I finally got it working again.

This issue solved my displaylink problem on my Manjaro system. (Another message to myself:
"write another blogpost about what I feel using displaylink")

Most of the commands are run with `sudo`.

Kind regards


Making my blog source code publically available


There are times, I stop writing for a very long time, a lot happens, but I don't know what to write, where to start, so I don't write anything at all. Then there are some times, nothing special happens and I start writing multiple blogposts, which is mostly incomplete, or contains typo's. And one more thing, not all my posts are in English, so I write in the language I feel at that moment.

It's the same for my accounts on other (social) platforms. On some I didn't posted or answered for about a year or more. I added my social profiles on the bottom of my blog, also to keep me remind that I have those. PM send from those platforms will be forwarded to my email, which I try to answer in 24h.

I try to plan, (which is a big word, even for me), to restructure all my projects, files, life and profiles on platforms.

My company website(which is just a contact card of my company) and my blog are done for the moment. I also re-added rss support for my blog, which is a static xml page without extension, generated at build-time. This is a simple solution to publish rss, and I like that it is so simple.

Next thing to develop are Twitter and maybe LinkedIn integrations, so whenever I publish a blogpost, it will also be published on those platforms. One thing I dont like about developer accounts on those platforms are, the mandatory phonenumber check, to verify that I'm a human and not robot.
And maybe add the ability to use icons or emoji's in my blogposts.

I also need to create a portfolio(or projects) page, but how to style it or which one should I add. Those are the FAQ in my head I ask myself, when trying to do something like that.

Kind regards


Blog updates 4


Yesterday, I passed time with my daughter(dancing, playing, making music, singing, watching animated movies), then decided to recreate my blog, because it was offline and as I mentioned in my previous post, a building of the hosting company, hosting my web server burned down. About couple of hours was needed to recreate my blog in new tech I just learned(Next.js, TailwindCSS) and host it easily(Netlify.com).

But I decided to create a private repo at first, which is mainly my start point for every project. First private, test thing out, if it fails, it stays hidden in the dark, if it's shareable, make it available to public :).

Today, I told a friend about my blog I recreated, but didn't showed the source yet. So after a while, I decided to make the repo publicly available, as it is a "shareable" project now.

This is the link https://github.com/aytacworld/adem.ayt.ac.

If you have any suggestions or improvement, feel free to contact me.

Kind regards


New Beginning



Again a startover of my blog. I don't know if I will ever have a final version.

This time, I rebuild it using Next.js and hosted it on Netlify.com. Next.js is a framework build on top of React. As a long time Angular developer, I wanted to learn a second tool in Javascript, and decided to use React. But my main problem is, that I don't have a project to test it on. So I decided to create a dummy restaurant app with it.

While trying to find time to start the project. A building of the hosting company where my blog, git, cloud servers are hosted, burned down and I lost all of them. Without backup I lost most of my projects, files, content.
Luckely my cloud files are also backed up on my drive, and most of my projects are also hosted on github. But some of them aren't... So I changed my goal to (re)build my blog using React, and host it on a provider. My options were Heroku, Netlify, Vercel. I already knew Heroku, so wanted to try something new, and Netlify is chosen.

But I'm still new to React, so I wanted to have a working routing system, and a friend suggested Next.js, so I followed this [tutorial](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/05/04/building-a-markdown-blog-with-next-9.4-and-netlify/). And did the same blog, but start changing code to create the same layout as before. But this time, no plain css or bootstrap, and again, I wanted to use something I didn't used before. And for styling I used TailwindCSS. It's easy and nice, but need to spend more time with it.

The overal view is the same, and without javascript enabled, just little style changes. The sourcecode is hosted on Github, but currently as a private repository.

Kind regards


Closing libreshop



It's been 6 months since my last post. Lot have happened since then.

I started working in a chocolate factory at night, I had to wear clean uniform, and change my
shoe, wear facemask, hearnet, gloves, put my clothes and phone in a locker. So I only had the
locker key and a badge in my pocket.

It's mostly repetitive work, but I like to work there, after working for a whole month, I found
another job to work during day. But didn't stop working at night on Fridays at the factory.

While working at the factory, I had a lot of time to think and create idea's. At the same time I was
lucky to see how the system was automated, and was thinking on how to further improve this
automation. Then suddenly, I started to compare the automation in the factory with writing code.
I've been Frontend/Angular developer for about ~3 years now and I'm using rxjs(Observables, Streams,
...). I started to think about the automation in factory if it was rxjs operator.

Then I was thinking further, and decided to create a "virtual" factory, but I had so many different
projects and idea's, so where do I begin. Why not one of my existing projects and mix it up with the
new idea's I have? So I started to brainstorm about it.

In my next post I'll write about a project more in detail.

Stay well and have a nice evening.

Kind regards


Sax festivali


Yes, it is true, Libreshop is closing.

8 months ago, I started this project with enthousiasm and with the purpose of helping as much people as possible by providing cheap privacy respecting hardware.

At beginning, it was difficult, but it was okay, after a while, it got easier to maintain this.

I had lot's of idea's to improve this webshop, but also the core business of Libreshop, but I didn't manage to find the time to improve.
Other projects got higher in the priotity list, which made it extra hard to find time for this project.

Then the sales stopped, and the little time I used to maintain become also some time I could spare to do other projects.

At the end, I didn't had orders or time, and a little supply. It didn't made sense to keep the whole setting up and running, with no one interested.

I decided to keep the remaining products for spare parts or try to build them with what I got and donate to charity.

From today, I'm not taking any orders.

This website is going to be closed after a while. If there are people interested in this domain as well, you can contact me.

Stay well and have a nice weekend.

Kind regards


Blog Updates part 3


Bu sene Los Turcos derneǧinin 100üncü yıldönümü, festival her sene olduǧu gibi 1 şubattan 5 şubata kadar sürdü. Ben ilk defa katıldım, ve beklentimin üstünde bir sevinçle geri döndüm.

Önceki [yazımda](https://adem.ayt.ac/p/2020-02-04_sax_festivali) belirtiǧim bazı durumlardan dolayı, gezi kötü geçti zannetmeyin, tam aksine çok iyi geçti. Önceki yazım, elçilikte çalışan, terbiyesizler'in yaptıklarıydı. Bu yazımda, o gün yapılan terbiyesizlikleri bir kenara bırakıp, festivalde neler olduǧunu, hangi duygular yaşadıǧımı yazıyorum.

Herşey çok güzel geçti. Dilde biraz sıkıntı yaşasakta, herkez bizi dostu veyahut kardeşi gibi görüyor, 10 adımlık yolda, 10 defa yemek ve içmek için davet ediliyorduk.

Türkçe konuşmasalar bile, Türklük içlerine işlemiş bir toplum ile karşılaştım. Her konuştuǧum kişinin bana ilk olarak söylediǧi "Sizin burda bizim festivalimize katılmanızdan şeref duyuyorum". Bu öyle kolay söylenecek bir söz deǧildir. Bu cümleyi söylerken dahi, bize bu duyguyu hissettirmeleri, benim için çok büyük bir şereftir.

Din, dil, ırk ayırmadan, festivallerini kutluyor, ve bizleri memnun etmek için, tüm halk, seferber oluyor.
Bende ilk başta ön yargılıydım, "Avrupa kim, Türk sevgisi kim" derdim. Lakin Sax'ta gördüklerim bu görüşümü tamamen deǧiştirdi.

Her gün yürüyüşler gerçekleştirildi, Sax kasabasının her sokaǧı dolaşıldı. Ve hatta Los Turcos derneǧinin davetlisi olarak bizi en ön sıraya aldılar, ve üzerimizde taşıdıǧımız Ay Yıldız bayrak ve Atatürklü bayraklar çok ilgi gördü. Yanımızda yürüyen 94 yaşında bir önceki Los Turcos derneǧi başkanı vardı, ve bize gururla "ben 94 yaşındayım, ve 94 yıldır bir Türküm" diyordu.

Ertesi gün Mehter takımı geldi, ve biz bayraklarımızı takıp mehterin önünde onlara destek amaçlı yürüdük, lakin elçi çalışanları, bizi engellemeye çalışsalar bile(insanları "bunlar politika yapıyor" diye kışkırtarak), genede Sax'lı halk bu oyunlara gelmedi, ve bizi motive etmeye devam ettiler.

Yürüyüşlerin yanında, kasabayı dolaştık, ve her dolaştıǧımızda, gördüǧüm sokaklarda masalar var, ve her masa başında insanlar eyleniyorlardı, ve her evin kapısından girdiǧinde, sanki restoran'a girdiǧini zannedersin, fakat bunlar, normal evlerdi. Ve herkez ikramlarda bulunuyor, bizede gel, bizdede birşey ye ve iç diye yarışıyorlardı.

Umarım bu dostluk, bu kardeşlik bozulmaz, ve bozmaya çalışanlarda asla başarılı olamaz. Bozulmaması için elimden geleni yapmaya hazırım.

Bizi davet eden Los Turcos derneǧi başkanı Francisco Sánchez Chico, "el Tito"ya, ve tüm Sax halkına, Avrupa Atatürkçü Düşünce Dernekleri Birliği genel başkanı Mustafa Tosun ve eşine, Avrupa Türk onursal başkanı babam Ahmet Aytaç'a, Avrupa Türk yönetim kurulu üyesi abim Ismail Aytaç'a ve yanımızda bulunan herkeze sevgi ve saygılarımı iletiyorum.

Türklüǧünden şeref duyan ve ırkçılık yapmadan Türk milliyetciliǧi yapabilen herkezin, Sax'ı ziyaret etmesini ve orda yaşayanlar ile gönül baǧı kurmasını, diliyorum.

Saygı ve sevgi ile kalın



Once again, I have changed my blog.
I created a new repo https://git.aytacworld.com/aytacworld/adem.ayt.ac
All my posts(md-files) are on a different private repo. That way, draft versions stays offline.

The setup is simple, I'm using a Debian instance, and installed __git, curl, nginx, certbot, nvm(node+npm+yarn+pm2), ufw__, and added my user. And created 2 script files, 1) `update.sh`, which will update the system, 2) `publish.sh`, which will pull the blog repo and the posts repo and restart the blog.

The structure of the md-files stays the same

```
[//]: # (title: Blog Updates part 3)
[//]: # (tags: blog, git, refactoring)
[//]: # (publishdate: 2020-02-09 18:45:00)
[//]: # (published: true)

text...
...
```

The only difference is that I don't use the `published` meta data, I change the extension of the file instead (eg. 2020-02-09\_blog\_updates\_part3.md.unpublished).
Once the app starts, the initial function will look for all files with __.md__ extension in my other repo. So adding it, will exclude it from the files list.

No commenting system is used. And tags are only displayed, not used, maybe in future I re-enable them as a feature.

As I create the files starting with date, I didn't apply a sorting method. Listing all files will do it automatically, and iterating backwards will put the latest post as first item.

Navigation is also easy to setup:
- previous: files[current - 1]
- current: files[current]
- next: files[current + 1]

So this is the latest version of my blog

Thanks and take care


Blog Updates p2


Sax kentindeki Ispanyollar, Ay Yıldız ve Atatürk ile gurur duyuyor ve herkez kendini Türk hissediyor, ve bizim burda olmamızdan çok seviniyorlar. Fakat bazı kanı bozuklar, benim Vatanımın ekmeğini yiyip, bizi mehter takımı'nın yanına dahi yaklaştırmıyor. Atatürk ve Türk bayrağını herkeze politik diye dayamaya çalışıyorlar.

Ben siyaset yapmam ve hiçbir partiye bağlı değilim. Ben Türk milliyetcisiyim, kurt işareti, Türklük sembolüdür, bu işarete olitik veya mhp işareti diyenler, bilgisiz, kültürsüz, geri zekalılardır.

Atatürk, Türkiye Cumhuriyetini kuran kişidir. Onu kabullenemiyenler, ilk olarak, Türklüğünü sorgulasınlar, ve tarihini, tek taraflı değil, her yerden, tarafsız araştırıp, öğrensinler.

"Tarihini bilmeyen kavimler, yok olmaya mahkumdur" Mustafa Kemal Atatürk


Git Backup


This is the part 2 of my refactoring journey of my blogging system. You can read [here](https://adem.ayt.ac/p/20180716_StartOver) how it all started, and [here](https://adem.ayt.ac/p/20180827_BlogUpdates), how the refactoring is started.

I'm posting today, because a new version is available(I forget to increase the version, but that's okay).

In my previious post I mentioned this todo list:
- Create a docker image, so I can easily redeploy the app on another server.
- Use git to store the posts, so it's backed up and versioned.
- So, if we are using git, why not add the settings/configurations also in git.
- I can also create some pages like this.

So here I will tell more about, what I did and how it ended, until today.

I skipped the first, third and last, no docker, no settings or other pages for now..., But my posts are now on another git repo, and my application is cloning that repo. And it works, yey :).

To start, I removed the "login" and "edit" pages, and mongo database. So I had an empty webpage. Then I tried git clone operations, with success, expect for pullinga repo... I don't know why it is failing on my server machine...So I fixed it by removing the posts folder and recloning it, this is just a quick fix, and I need to fix the git.pull. And because of that, I even created my own git server with Gogs, I'll write a tutorial on how I did it.

The format of the post is:
```md
[//]: # (title: Blog Updates p2)
[//]: # (tags: blog, git, refactoring)
[//]: # (publishdate: 2018-09-30 17:32:00)
[//]: # (published: true)

text...
...
```

Once the post repo is cloned, it will loop over every file, and extract those 4 meta information, and spill it in an object:

```js
{
  id: string, // fileName
  title: string, // title or fileName
  tags: [string], // split by ,
  pubDate: Date,
  published: boolean,
  body: string,
}
```

This object is saved in a database object(currently in-memory), so every time someone requests the posts, it will be delivered from the database object instead of going through all the files again.

So, what if the server crashes or I upload a new post or update an existing post or delete a post? With current setup, it's easy, but not really performant.
If the server reboots, the database object is empty, and is going through every file again and extract the data.
If the repository is modified(add/edit/delete), again, the process of going through every file and extracting data is performed and de database object is overwritten.

In the future, I'll update this to be more performant and use a real database.

But this is my current setup.


Thanks and take care


Blog Updates


Some days ago, I updated my kernel. Then I worked on it, and shut it down. After a while, I restarted the laptop, but it freezed and I didn't know why...

I was able to use tty screens, so I plugged an usb flashdrive to copy all my documents. But then suddenly the usb drive was corrupt. So I needed to fix that first, which I did, by formatting it then I copied a lot of documents, projects, ... to a tiny usb flashdrive.

Then after searching the internet, I found a solution, which was to recompile some kde stuff.

So my files are backed up temporarily.
But how am I going to know which files are updated and which aren't for the next time, so I will overwrite each time my backed up files. This will consume lot of time... I know that I need a good backup system.

So why not use git for that. It is incremental, and all files are versioned.

So first open a directory where you want to store your backup, then init git with bare options.
> git init --bare

Then go to your folder you want to back up. Clone the folder, and add ".gitignore" file to ignore some files if you want.

At last run the following and your files will be backed up.
> git add . && git commit -m "updates" && git push

If need to reverse a file, just use git command to achieve this.

But wait, there is [sparkeshare](https://www.sparkleshare.org/) who just do that, and as a plus, it also offers encrypted projects. I didn't use it, but I came it acros when I was looking for an alternative for dropbox or googledrive.

You can also achieve the encrypted part, by running some command from a githook ;)

Thanks and take care


Siyasi Macera


On my first post, I mentioned that I wanted to add extra features to my blog. Well, guess what, I'm totally changing it.

One day I wanted to write a post, so I searched a markdown editor, and tried some nice ones. But then, I needed to login, then press "add"-button and fill in the form, copy-paste the markdown. Press save and hope that everything works fine. But it didn't, so I wasn't able to post my own post on my own blogging system...

Ofcourse, you'll say that I have to add some testing to avoid this kind of things. Well, I ignored that part for my blog. And now, I need to debug over and over and fix the app on every fail...

The second thing, that annoyed me, was that I need to fill in the form and refill it if anything goes bad... And copy-pasting from a markdown editor, is not always easy...
So I wanted to bypass that step as well.

I want some changes for my blogging system.

If anything goes bad on the server(mongo crashes or the server dies for whatever reason), I will lose my posts.
Ok, I can solve this with backup, but I need to configure the server again, and this will take time and motivation...

So couple of things came into my head.
Those are:
- Create a docker image, so I can easily redeploy the app on another server.
- Use git to store the posts, so it's backed up and versioned.
- So, if we are using git, why not add the settings/configurations also in git.
- I can also create some pages like this.

How this will work:
1. I will spin up a vps
2. Download docker
3. Run image with my data-git-repo
Yep only this 3 steps
(4.) when I add/update/delete a post, a githook will be fired, and the website will be up-to-date.
(5.) same goes for the settings

What kind of settings can I add?
- Blog title,
- color theme,
- how to create the slug,
- add signature
- set up language
- ...

How does a post look like?
```
[//]: # (keyword: value)
...

hello world
Blablabla...
...
```

The pages can also be created like this.

I also need a folder structure.
```
./settings.js
./posts/some-post-file.md
./pages/about.md
```
This way, I don't need to login to the website, but only commit my changes.

You can follow my updates on my github account about this :). Or just here, when I post it ;)

Thanks and take care


Projects progress in terminal


Türkiye siyasetini, çocuk yaşta öǧrenmeye başlıyoruz çoǧumuz. Ama bunu ne kadar doǧru yapıyoruz. Araştırmadan, babamız, dedemiz, amcalarımız, çevremiz, ... ne derse doǧruydu, isterlerse en yanlış şeyi söylesinler. Biz hata yapmazdık, yapanlar her zaman bizim gibi düşünmeyenlerdi. Ne yazıkki, bu durum, fazla deǧişmiyor çoǧumuz için.

Çocukken, Osmanlıyı anlatan kitaplar okurdum, kahraman padişah ve kahramanları. Hepsinin yanındaki büyük kişileri, vezirleri, şeyhleri, ozanları, aşıkları. Kötü her zaman, bize savaşandı. Koskoca milyonları çatısı altında bulunduran imparatorluk, hep bir aǧızdan konuşuyordu. Yani, dıştan kimse birşey yapamaz, içtende kimse bölemezdi. Ve bu 1299'dan 1922'e kadar böyleydi, ve bu imparatorluk hep Şeriat ile, Din ile, Adalet ile yönetildi. Fakat Balkanlarda, Orta Doǧuda, Afrikada arkadan vurulduk ve imparatoluk bitti dediǧimiz anda, Türk mehmetciǧi büyük general Atatürk ile beraber Türkiyeyi kurtardı, fakat bizim dinle bütünleşmiş imparatorluǧumuzu 1923'te, dinsiz cumhuriyet devletine çevirmişti...

Sonra mahalledeki camide Türk okuluna gitmeye başladım, abim ve mahalledeki çocuklar ile beraber. Kitapların ilk sayfasında, Atatürk'ün resmi vardı. Arkadaşlardan duyduǧum, Atatürk rakı içerdi, imamları asıp keserdi, sarık yerine şapka giydirirdi, ... Bu adam benim önderim olamazdı.

Bu arada Belçikanın kendi okulunada gidiyordum, Katolik okuldu. Ve orda bir gün, hz. Isa'nın doǧum günü olduǧu için, sınıfta kendi katolik şarkılarını söyleyecektik. Tenefüste, Türk Müslüman olarak, bizim grup, söylememek için karar aldık. Sınıfa geri girdik, ve benim Türk Müslüman, ve söylememek için kararlı arkadaşlarım dahi olmak üzere herkez, hz Isa için yazılmış çocuk şarkılarını söylemeye başladı, ben hariç. Öǧretmen bana geldi, ve neden söylemediǧimi sordu, bende "benim peygamberim deǧil" dedim. Bunun üzerine öǧretmenim bana "Ben siz Müslümansınız diye, benden deǧilsiniz, size ders vermem diyormuyum" dediǧinde, yerin dibine girdim, ve baktım ki, söylememekte kararlı olan, fakat genede şarkıları söyleyen arkadaşlar, o gün benle alay ettiler.

Eve gittim, olayı annem'e anlattım. Ve annem bana "hz Isa, bizimde peygamberimiz, saygısızlık etmişsin, onlarda öyle düşünüyor, ama hepimiz bak beraber yaşıyoruz" dedi, ve ben gene yerin dibine battım. Babama anlattım, üçüncü defa yerin dibine battım. Ama iyikide yerin dibine batmışım, çünkü düşünmeye başladım. Evet hz Isa benimde peygamberimdi, fakat neden onlar, bizden deǧildi, babam bana Müslümanlıǧın, Türklere sonradan geldiǧini anlattı. Yani, ilk Türkler Müslüman deǧilmiydi.

Ve böylece araştırmaya başladım. Türklerin, 16 imparatorluk kurduǧunu, yüzlerce beyliklerin olduǧunu. Moǧol, Hun, Çin, Japon ve Korelilerle yaşayıp, o yörelerden geldiǧini, Türklerin tek Türkiye olmadıǧını öǧrendim.

Yıllar geçti, orta okula gitmeye başladım, ve orda başka din, dil ve ırklarla konuşmaya, tartışmaya başladım. Ve bu tartışmalar hep yeni şeyler öǧrenmeye, araştırmaya başlamamı saǧladı.

Seneler geçti, ve insanların düşüncelerine saygı duymayı öǧrendim, ve kendi düşüncemi karşıdakini kırmadan anlatmayı öǧrendim, bu yolda kırdıklarım olduysa, beni affetsinler ve haklarını helal etsinler.

Osmanlıyı detayli öǧrenmeye başladım, Atatürkü araştırdım. Bana anlatılandan deǧişik bir Osmanlı ile karşılaştım, Atatürkün neden Cumhuriyet'i kurduǧunu, ve bunun dahamı iyi veya kötü olduǧunu anladım. _Bunu başka zaman anlatırım_

Ilk olarak, Türkiye siyasetinde, MHP'yi bilirdim, en milliyetci partiydi, ben öyle biliyordum, ama uyguladıǧı politikaya baktım, bazı ortamlara baktım, gördüǧüm: ırkcılık, saǧ-sol mantıǧını, dinlemeden hain ilan etmek ve düşünmeden parti liderinin peşinden gitmek. Bana ters olan noktalar bunlardı.

- Irkcılık: Milliyetcilik deǧildir, Türke düşman olmayana karşı, ben düşman olman. Buna güzel bir örnek, Malcolm X in hayatıdır.
- Saǧ-sol mantıǧı: şucu-bucu düşüncesi, kardeşi kardeşe düşman eder. Üzerinden bu kadar yıl geçmiş, geçmişi hortlatmaya gerek yok, geçmişe bakıp geleceǧi inşaa etmek laǧzım.
- Dinlemeden hain ilan etmek: partiden ayrılmayı, aynı düşünmemeyi, hainlikle suçlayanlar, kendi samimiliǧine ilk olarak baksınlar.
- Düşünmeden parti liderinin peşinden gitmek: Birinin peşinden gitmekte sorun yoktur, fakat, peşinden gittiǧin kişiyi eleştirmemek, dahada kötüsü eleştirememek, yanlışlarını görüpte anlatmamak, veya anlatamamaktır bununla kast ettiǧim.

Siyasetin yanında dincileri gördüm, bir arkadaşım bana, gel sohbete gidelim dedi, ne güzel, genciz, din ile ilgileniyoruz, beraber sobhete gidiyoruz. Bir araya geldik, arkadaşlar lezzetli yemek yaptı, sonra cay ile sohbet başladı. Normal bir sohbetti, okul, öǧrenci örgütleri, ders, kültür, ... gibi konular konuşuldu. Sonra bir imam abileri geldi, sohbet dine döndü, ve "hoca efendi", aǧlamalar, ... Dedikleri hoca efendi kim diye düşündüm, sonra aklıma feto geldi, ve herkez onun ile ilgili, şöyle iyi, böyle eziyet çekti, hep hizmet verdi, ... şeklinde konuşmaya başladı. Ben konuşmadım, dinledim. Ordan ayrıldım, düşündüm, babam feto'yu zaten sevmezdi, ama onun hakkında bu kadar iyi konuşanlar vardı, ve içlerinden biride iyi tanıdıǧım bir arkadaşımdı.
Araştırdım, ve din'i başta iyi anlatan bir hoca, fakat, detaylara girmeye başlayınca, beyin yıkayan bir örgüt olduǧunu gördüm ve bunu böyle anlattım, yaptıǧım tartışmalarda.

Sonra Cübbeli hoca, Kedicikli Adnan hoca, Tv hocaları derken, bir gün Cat Stevens, yani Yusuf Islam'ın Islama dönme hikayesini okudum. Ve yabancı birinin, hiçbir hacı-hocaya takılmadan asıl dini öǧrenmesi, beni duygulandırdı. _Başka örneklerde var, lakin anlatmak istediǧim o deǧil_

Bizim cemaate katıl diyelere, hep bu cevabı verdim. Ve hiçbir cemaate baǧlanmadım. Ve bu yüzden, sen bizim hocamıza, baǧımlı deǧilsin, sen kafirmisin, diyenlerle bile karşılaştım.

Sonra bir ara, iktidar parti olan AKP'nin, yaptıklarını duydum, ve sevindim, lakin AKP'yi okadar iyi bilmiyordum, ve siyaset ile dahada ilgilenmeye başladım, ve ne yazıkki, gene duyduǧum/gördüǧüm ve araştırmalarım arasında kocaman daǧlar olduǧunu gördüm.
- Kürt-Türk kardeştir, PKK'yı bitireceǧiz, dediler, açılım dediler, sonunda Habur sınırından terör başları, kahraman gibi ülkeye girdiler.
- Hoca efendi böyle iyi, şöyle eziyet çekti, ve sayre... ona selamlar gönderiyoruz, Inşallah ülkemize geri getirteceǧiz, ... Duyduǧuma ilk ininamadım.
- Türk üniversiteleri, en iyi üniversiteler sıralamasından liste dışına düştü.
- Türk havayolları, Telekom, ... yabancılara satıldı.

Konu Türkiye siyaseti olduǧunda,
- ne Hoca efendisi, ona inanmayın dediǧimde, sen dinsizmisin, sen ne bilirsin denildi.
- Devlet terör'ü bitireceǧi yere, masaya oturdu dedim, senin gibiler yüzünden bu kadar şehit verdik, artık şehit, gazi vermiyeceǧiz dediler.
- BOP başkanıyım diye baǧırıyordu, yok, mualefet Amerika uşaǧı, o deǧil.
- ...
Daha çok örnek var, yazmaya kalksam bitmez, malesef.

Ama sonra, ilk terör örgütü, sonra hoca efendileri, sonra emperyalistler devleti kandırdı. Ve 15 temmuz, hain darbe gerçekleşti.
Darbe'nin üzerinden bir hafta geçmedi, 15bin kişi tutuklandı, işten çıkarıldı, düşmanı yendik çıǧlıkları atıldı.
Bir video gördüm, videoda teslim olan askerleri kemer ile dayak atıp, öldürdüler. Ve bu konuyla ilgili "Teslim olanı, canavarca öldürmenin hangi dinde yeri var, onu yapan şerefsizdir yazdım", bana "sen fetocumusun, siz zaten heb erdoǧana saldırıyorsunuz", "hainler", ... cevabları geldi, ve asker üniformasıyla halka ateş eden şerefsizleri gösterdiler.

Herkez bilsin ki, savunmasız veya teslim olmuş kişiye eziyet edip, öldürüp, ölüsüne bile tekme atan, __şerefsizdir__.

Iki sene sonra 2017'de. AvrupaTürk derneǧini yeniden faaliyete geçirdik. Türkiyeden ilk misafirleri aǧırladık, Sadi Somuncuoǧlu ve Yusuf Halaçoǧlu, konu ise Türk tarihi ve kültürüydü. Ama Yusuf Halaçoǧlu, Iyi parti kurucularından olduǧu için, sorulan sorular, siyaset ile ilgiliydi.

Konferanstan sonra, sohbet ettik, ve IYI partinin kuruluş nedeni ve amacını, bizzat kendisinden dinledim. Sonra ikinci konferansımızı yaptık, bu sefer misafirimiz Özcan Pehlivanoǧlu idi, bu seferki konu Balkan Türkleri. Fazla gelen olmadı, fakat konu __çok önemli bir konudur__. _Bu konuyu başka zaman yazacaǧım_. Özcan Pehlivanoǧlu'da IYI parti kurucularındandı.

Bundan bir-iki hafta sonra, erken seçim kararı geldi, ve apar topar, bunun ile ilgilenmeye başladım.

Kuruluş nedeni ve uyguladıkları politika'dan dolayı, burda IYI parti için müşahitlik görevini üstlendim. Sonra bir de baktım CHP ve Saadet partisi ile ittifak kuruldu. Ilk başta üzerinde fazla durmadım, onlarında amacı aynıydı. Parlementer devlet ile devam etmek, tek adam rejimi olmamak.

Bu süreç içinde, tv'lerde Millet ittifakı, hainler diye damgalandı, Cumhuriyet ittifakı ise tek vatansever, öncü ve dünyadaki tek adaletliler diye duyuruldu.

Belçikada seçim 5 gün sürdü. 3 gün müşahitlik yaptım. Çok şey oǧrendim, ve kişiler tanıdım. Beni tehdit edende oldu, işimi yapmamı engellemeye çalışan terbiyesizlerde oldu.
Ben IYI parti adına ordaydım, CHP-Saadet'lilerle konuştum, ittifak olduǧumuz için beraberdik, güzel sohbetlerimiz oldu. HDP'lilerle konuştum, onlar ilede güzel konuşmalar gerçekleştirdim. MHP'den beni tehdit edip terbiyesizlik yapanlar dışında, sohbetler ettim. Aynı şekilde AKP'lilerle ilede konuştum.
Siyaseti bir tarafa bıraktıǧımda, herkez ile iyi konuşmalar yapabildim, terbiyesizler ve cahiller dışında tabikide.

24 Haziran, adilce veya kalleşce bir seçim geçirdik, seçim sonucu belli olmadan Erdoǧan kutlamaya başladı, Ince ilk umut verici mesaj attı, ve 10 dakika gecmeden, malubiyetini açıkladı, Akşener kayboldu. Ince bir gün sonra, iki gün sonrada Akşener açıklama yaptı.

Bu açıklamadan sonra, IYI partide bir amaç için kurulup, kitle toplayıp, amacını unutan bir parti gibi davrandıǧı için, desteǧimi çektim.

Üzerinden vakit geçti, Nevzat Bor, Özcan Yeniçeri ve Yusuf Halaçoǧlu, benim üste yazdıǧım nedenler yüzünden istifa ettiler...

Bundan sonra, hiç bir siyasi partiye destek vermeyeceǧim.

Türkcülük ve Turancılık davamda ise deǧişen birşey yoktur.

Saygılar ve sevgiler ile


The problem with third party tools/integration


For a couple of days, I was searching the web for an app to track my projects, but __ALL__ of my projects, personal, work, family, friends, adventures, ...

At work, we are using Jira, so I can use that too, but it's a massive application to use, and to set up. So, I searched a little further, and most of the applications I found, are the same, bloathed with features, I don't need, and the setup procedure that takes lots of time.

Then, I decided to use my own programming skill to create one myself, it is very basic, I just need to sum my projects, and the application will show a progressbar next to that project.

The main purpose of the project is, that I will only create a projects lists(nested lists also). And the program will show me the list, I don't need to configure anything(maybe in the future), but the main goal is: you add your lists file, you pass it to the application, and you will get an output. This is the only requirement for my application. _Configuring the layout, symbols, blablabla, ... is maybe for the next version._

- I created a new project in github and added a default MIT LICENSE and README.md file.

- Then I cloned this repo

`git clone git@github.com:aytacworld/projects-progress.git`

- Create my index.js file.

`touch index.js`

- I added this in my index.js file

```js
const projects = require('./my-projects');
const app = require('./app');

app.print(projects);
```

This is basically it for index.js file.

- Now, I need to declare how I will write down my projects. I like to keep it simple, so I came up with this structure, to declare my projects.

`touch my-projects.js`

```js
module.exports = {
  'first project': {
    'add todo': 54,
    'do some stuff': 43
    'do some crazy stuff': {
      'some craziness': 100,
      'another craziness': 0
    }
  },
  'second project': {
    ...
  }
};
```

Like I mentioned, just focus on the project and nothing to configure.

- Then I created the application file itself.

`touch app.js`

The application will take the projects list, go through every project, and the subprojects. A recursive function will do the job for us.

```js
class Project {
  constructor(name, level, value) {
    this.name = name;
    this.level = level;
    this.projects = [];
    this.percentage = typeof (value) === 'number' ? value : this.getValueFromSubProjects(value);
  }

  getValueFromSubProjects(projects) {
    let all = 0;
    const keys = Object.keys(projects);
    for (let i = 0; i < keys.length; i += 1) {
      const name = keys[i];
      const value = projects[name];
      const subProject = new Project(name, this.level + 1, value);
      all += subProject.percentage;
      this.projects.push(subProject);
    }
    return (all / (this.projects.length || 1));
  }

  print() {
    let countBars = Math.round(this.percentage / 10);
    countBars = countBars > 0 ? countBars : 1;
    const dash = '--'.repeat(this.level) + '>';
    const bars = '='.repeat(countBars - 1) + '>' + ' '.repeat(10 - countBars);
    const perc = '(' + this.percentage.toFixed(0) + ')'
    console.log(`[${bars}] ${dash} ${this.name} ${perc}`)
    this.projects.forEach(p => p.print());
  }
}

module.exports = {
  print: (projects) => {
    const root = new Project('All Projects', 0, projects);
    root.print();
  }
};
```

Basically, this is all the code needed.

- now run our app.

`node .`

The output will be like this.

```sh
[====>     ] > All Projects (50%)
[===>      ] --> project 1 (43%)
...
```

So this is all we need, we don't configure anything, but our projects and it will be displayed in terminal.

I already updated the project, and committed it. I changed the code, so I don't have an app.js, but project.js which will export the `Project` class.

After reading this [post](https://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/298/how-to-show-colorful-messages-in-the-console-in-node-js), I also added colors to my application, if a projects percentage is below 35, it will be displayed in red, if it's more than 80, then it will be in green. And if you don't add your own `my-projects.js` file, you will get a red banner.

You can find the latest version [here](https://github.com/aytacworld/projects-progress).

I was thinking to add some extra functionalities, I'll some them up:
- add/delete/edit a project
    - add: `node -a "first project/do some crazy stuff/third craziness=45"
    - delete: `node -d "first project/do some crazy stuff/third craziness"`
    - edit: `node -e "first project/do some crazy stuff/third craziness=78"`
    - add autocompletion for the project navigations
- show only the sub projects of a selected project
    - show: `node -s "first project/do some crazy stuff"`
- customizations:
    - toggle colors
    - select the colors and the percentages to show them
    - update the bar characters
    - show/hide percentage or bar
    - ...

Ofcourse, I will add them in the future, when I wanted to invest some time in it.
And those customizations don't have to change the main goal of this project. "you clone it, write down your projects file and start using it", those have to be nice to have features only.
If you want, you can create a PR, and I will review it.

Thank and take care.


Compressing scanned pdf's


Building an app is great, not only for work, but also as a hobby. Recently, I build my blog using ExpressJs... All went well, I just scrapped one of my todo, Twitter integration.

This feature was going to save me some time. When I'm publishing a new post, it was going to automatically tweet about it. Instead of browsing to [twitter.com](http://twitter.com/), then copy pasting the title and the link to my post manually.

So I went to [apps.twitter.com](http://apps.twitter.com/), clicked on create an account, fill in the form, checked the "Accept conditions" checkbox, then pressed the "create application"-button. But I was blocked, Twitter asked me to enter my phone number to create an application on twitter. In the past I gave my number to various sites, but recently I removed it, and don't want to give it anymore.

For my current project, I'm developing some cool things, like chatbots, voice control, service workers, ... So you need to create an account on those systems to be able to integrate their services. In this post I'll try to explain the difference third parties and what I have encountered and what I found really annoying about it.

## Twitter

This is a bit of a repetition of the intro of this post, but I'll explain more in detail.

It's easy to create a Twitter account, you just give in your "username" and "email". It's up to you to enter your real or pseudo name. And your ready to follow others, post tweets, pm, do whatever Twitter stuff you want to do.
You don't need to enter anything about your privacy, so it is great.

Another great thing about Twitter is that you don't need to install the application to use it on your smartphone. The site is a [PWA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Web_Apps), so you can go to the website using a browser(Chrome on Android and Firefox Beta supports it, I didn't test it using regular Firefox), then create a shortcut of that page, and voila, you "installed" Twitter Lite on your smartphone.

But when you want to develop something for twitter, then you go to [dev.twitter.com](https://dev.twitter.com) but this is the Enterprise development website, you need to register and add your creditcard, ... So this is not really what you want if you just want to test or make some little integrations.

So there is another site, [apps.twitter.com](https://apps.twitter.com), here you can also just login with your twitter account. And you can create an application, this will give you your tokens, endpoints, ... which is needed for the integration part.

But the thing is, if you have created a new account on Twitter and you just entered your username, email and password. You can't create an application. Twitter will ask(demand) you to enter your mobile phone number, and validate it by sending a text message to that number. If you don't want to add your phone number, you can't go further.

So this is the big drawback from Twitter. If there is another way to do it, just let me know.

I found this really annoying, because currently I'm writing a blogpost and publishing it on my blog, once published I'll have to go to Twitter, then copy and paste the title and the url of the blogpost, then tweet. With the integration, it was going to send a tweet automatically, once I publish a blogpost...

## Facebook

In the past I created couple of times a Facebook account, then deleted again, forgot that I had one, then reactivated, ... But after the last time I deleted my Facebook account, I didn't create one and I don't have any intentions of doing it for my own. The previous creations was because of family, friends, ... who at the end convinced me to rejoin, but now I decided not to create an account at all. I will only create one if I need to do my job(integrate some features), but those accounts will only be for that project, and when I finish it, I will delete or never use that account, and while creating, I'll not enter any personal information. But last week I even decided not to do that, Let me explain why...

I created an account because I wanted to create a chatbot and use Messenger for that. I did, then I change from project, so I didn't login on facebook for a couple of days. Meanwhile, I was receiving to many emails from Facebook("Suggestions", "Long time no see, come and log back in", ...), so it was filling in my inbox with that kind of spam. I wanted to disable all notifications. After I logged in, Facebook was forcing me to enter my mobile phone number "for security purposes", and there wasn't any skip button, and there wasn't any "go to settings" link neighter... So I was stuck, I didn't enter my phonenumber, so I couldn't do anything at all.

Luckely I used an email account I created for that project only.

And so I decided to not use it at all.

Even if most of the people I know is using it, I won't go back to use it...

## Amazon

For another project, colleagues build an Alexa skill, my part was to build the backend that Alexa is using, so I can just mock the requests Alexa is sending my backend and respond it with the npm package that Alexa provides. So I don't need to create an account for that. It was just the first part...

So I builded the features and tested it using the mock data I created. But when I was asked to test it on the system itself, they asked me if I had an Amazon account.

Amazon has still the most populated website in my view, but you can easily create an account as well, and don't provide your real info. Of course, if you are going to buy something from them, at least your delivery address needs to be correct, but that's not the point of this post.

Then I wanted to change it to a developer account and browse to this site [developer.amazon.com/](https://developer.amazon.com/). It asked me to enter a whole form, asking for my real name, address, phone, credit card, ..., I asked my colleague, if there is another way.

Luckely there is, he sends me an invitation for the skill, so I don't need to fill the form, so I can just go to the admin page of that skill. I was happy, but not for long...

When I went to the page, Amazon asked to connect to a device or companion app. When I wanted to install the companion app, it asked me lot of permissions. I was like "Hell no", I'm not giving you those permissions.

Again, Luckely, my colleague logged out and logged in with my Amazon account on his smartphone and I have connected an Echo device with my account, then he logged of from his smartphone, but now I was able to skip the "connect device page", and proceed on the admin page of the skill. I was able to change the endpoints, and pointed to my dev machine and developed for a while and tested directly on Amazon Echo.

Then they have resetted the Echo device for a demo with their account, the day after I wanted to change the endpoints back to my dev machine, but again I was blocked by the "connect a device" page... Then I also found a test device in the material room at my work, and this is how I connected back the Echo device.

I wanted to create another skill, but without success. To create a new application, first you need to finish the form, filling all information...

## Google

The client also wanted to add Google Assistant as a channel next to Alexa, so I created a gmail account. One thing I like with Google is, if you create an account, you can use it on every service, and you don't need to update or upgrade your account for some services.

I just went to [console.actions.google.com](https://console.actions.google.com) and I was able to create a skill/application. I created a skill, modified my backend so it also accepts Google Assistant calls, refactored it, so both skills use the same logic.

And it never asked me for credit card or phone number or any other privacy information. So why are the other not be able to do it...

Google has a nice feature on the console too, you can directly use the simulator to test your skill, and it also replies like it should on a real device.

## Other services

Those were the only third parties I tried to integrate. When I try some new things I'll try to make a post on that as well.

Most of those services ask you for your personal data, so they can create a profile on your behave and advertise based on your data and even sell it. That's the reason why I stopped using most of the services and try to create my own.

The only social media I'm using next to my blog is Twitter. My point of view is, I only post or tweet something that I wanted to be public. If I want to share something personal with my family or friends, I don't use any of those services at all, I send it through encrypted channels.

Thanks and take care


Start over


In my previous post, I told that I switched to Parabola GNU/Linux, it is one of the few libre os that exists. But using a libre os comes with a price, you have lesser options when it comes to nice tools, programs, devices. Of course, you have alternatives, but if you're not use to it, or don't find the one feature you want, there is just one option left, assemble some tools yourself and write things yourself. If you're not a developer or interested in writing stuff yourself, then it can give you headache, a lot.

On my previous used os's I was able to scan easily some documents, and save it as pdf, and the scan application, was doing the compression of it by default, but in Parabola GNU/Linux, you need to do it yourself.

Parabola is a stripped version of Arch linux(with stripped, I mean, all non-free stuff is removed), and you can't use AUR(next to the default repository, it contains most of the cool stuff). So I tried some scanning applications from the default repository. The one I use is xsane, you just install it with `sudo pacman -S xsane`, then the installation starts and you can start using it, the default GUI is easy to use, but old fashion design, but that's not a problem, as long as it works.

But when I scan 1 paper, the saved pdf is about 1.2MB, even if the file is just text without any color, or picture on it. And I scan a lot of documents.

So I start searching some compression tool for pdf, I found some online tools, but I don't want to upload my document. So I searched further for application, who runs locally, and if it's on terminal, I'm the happiest :)

I found `gs`. It was beautiful. You can just compress a pdf file using this command

```sh
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="<new file name>" "<file to compress>"
```

I just compressed a file of 1.2MB to 78.9KB, which is awesome. But I need to write the whole command each time, so I first wanted to create an alias, but I created a script file instead.

```sh
#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "${1}" ]; then
  echo "please use it as 'compress-pdf <filename>'"
else
  FILE=$1
  NEW_FILE=${FILE}.new.pdf
  echo compressing $FILE
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="${NEW_FILE}" "${FILE}"
fi
```
You can run this script: `compress-pdf file.pdf`
Then it will create __file.pdf.new.pdf__, then you can compare the size of both, keep the small file, remove the original and rename the new or just remove the new created file.
But doing this for a bunch of files... the script can also handle this part for us.

You can get the size of the file by executing `ls "<file name>" -s | cut -d " " -f 1`, this will get the size of the file.

so I added this also inside the script to compare the size of both files.

```sh
#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "${1}" ]; then
  echo "please use it as 'compress-pdf <filename>'"
else
  FILE=$1
  NEW_FILE=${FILE}.new.pdf
  echo compressing $FILE
  gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="${NEW_FILE}" "${FILE}"
  ORIG_SIZE=$(ls "$FILE" -s | cut -d " " -f 1)
  NEW_SIZE=$(ls "${NEW_FILE}" -s | cut -d " " -f 1)
  if [ $ORIG_SIZE -lt $NEW_SIZE ]; then
    rm "${NEW_FILE}"
  else
    mv "${FILE}" "${FILE}.original"
    mv "${NEW_FILE}" "${FILE}"
  fi
fi
```

Now it will try to compress file, if the new file is bigger than the original, it will remove it, if not it will rename the original file(add ".orignal" at the end of the name), so you can control if the new file is readable enough, before deleting the old one.

As a bonus, you can move this file to `/usr/local/bin`, so it will be accessible from any where :). You can move your script with this command `sudo mv <relative path to your file> /usr/local/bin/compress-pdf`.

You can find the latest version of the file [here](https://gist.github.com/aytacworld/849a3b74009b641e9ad35fc0da2d3ddb "Gist").

Thanks and take care




Finally, I finished my blog, again...

Developing it was the easiest part. So why did it take so long to finish it? There was some obstacles during the way, like most of the development. I will write down my journey on this post :).

Previously, I used Wordpress, Blogger, Scriptogr.am, ... to post, but every tool I used, has it's own ups and downs. And I needed to create an account on this tool, to use that tool and configure it like that to do have this behavior, use this theme, ... you know where it's going.

Some people are using them too, and they put some time and energy in setting the tool on how they want it. And they create a great blog.

Because of that I decided to create my own blogging system, I don't have to configure some settings, I just program it and voila. So my adventure has started.

First I backed up my posts, in [markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) format, then I start thinking on how I would create it, in the past I developed in C#, Js, little PHP and Java, and currently I'm only developing in Js, so technology was not a problem. I used [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/). Then I had to decide the framework/library to build the front and back-end.

Back-end was kind of simple, I used [ExpressJs](https://expressjs.com/), but there was couple of questions, like should I render the page or just create an API server which will be consumed? Should I store md files or save it in a database? Should I integrate with anything(Twitter, Facebook, Google+, ...)? Should I store user info for commenting or not? ... The questions can go on, but you get the point.

Some of the back-end questions depend on the front-end, so I need to finish that part as well, I wanted to use [Angular](https://angular.io/), for the front-end part, then decided to use React, to build a full application with it. So the back-end was going to be an API server, which will be consumed by my [React](https://reactjs.org/) front-end, but then suddenly I was doing lots of other things, so I put my blog development on the shelf for some time...

Changing my current job, moving to another city, baby is coming, thinking of other projects. It was nearly impossible to find some free time.

During that time I also get more interests in Free Software way of thinking, not that I'm a fully supporter of it, but I bought a Lenovo x200, upgraded it with 8gb RAM, SSD drive, flashed the bios to [libreboot](https://libreboot.org/)(with raspberry instead of a beaglebone), changed the wifi card, installed Trisquel, then changed to Parabola Gnu/Linux(with KDE). And I also use terminal a lot more, my mail client is [mutt](http://www.mutt.org/), calendar app is [khal](https://github.com/pimutils/khal) and rss reader is [newsboat](https://newsboat.org/). I also like to browse using [lynx](https://lynx.browser.org/). So this was a major point on deciding how to build my website, when I was reading some articles using newsboat(rss reader on terminal) and reading a medium article using lynx, I decided to create my blog lynx compatible and I also wanted rss feeds.

Lynx browser is just html, without js or css, so back-end can render those too, I will use pug for that, that's also decided. I created the first pages, but when I open the website on a regular Browser, I decided to add css, as less as possible, but still, it would be minimalist. But without js in the front-end at all.

Next, where to store the data, the options are file storage or database storage, I just decided to use [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/), don't know why, but I also like the idea to store/upload files, and the server will render it, like scriptogr.am does(but it's taken off).

I found a old tutorial about rss page in Jade(old [Pug](https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html)), and changed little bits of the page to fully support Pug. You can find the article [here](https://davidwalsh.name/rss-express).
I also used that article for designing my MongoDB Schema, maybe that was the reason I used Mongo.

To create/edit (and delete, not implemented yet) posts, I need a secure section, for that I used [passportjs](http://www.passportjs.org/), which is the easiest way to create a login mechanism in NodeJs, I just used [passport-local](https://www.npmjs.com/package/passport-local). Then I created my secure edit page, the password is plain text, so I need to make it production friendly, but because the server is my own server, and connecting to server is over ssh, for the moment it's not a big deal. But later, I will hash the password and use the hashed version for comparing. Or add OAuth for not managing the login at all, but that's not really what I want, I want to keep that kind of information for my self. So I will create a SSO in the future, and hopefully post the progress of it here on my blog.

I used [marked](https://www.npmjs.com/package/marked) to render the markdown to html and serve it in pug.

So far I had a working blog. Here is a small summary:
- render blog-list, blog-detail, login, add/edit-post
- login using passportjs
- use mongoosejs for MongoDB connection
- model Schema's are done

My todo list contains those things:
- filter posts by tags
- search by keywords
- allow users to comment(simple comment implementation)
- tweet when publishing a post(twitter integration)

Filtering posts was a handy feature, so I added tags to my posts and made it clickable.
Searching was also great to learn how I can use mongoose to do some querying.
For comments feature, I could have used [Disqus](https://disqus.com/), but it also requires javascript and third party integration and configuration. So I created simple as possible commenting system, the user only have to fill 3 fields name, email and message, only message is mandatory, I will still have to fine-tune it, because it's not bug free, and also add localStorage for remembering the name and email, so you don't have to enter that each time, and of course add a "legal" not that I use cookies for only that purpose...
The last one was more of a integration with twitter, so each time I publish a post, it would automatically tweet from my twitter account the url of that post, for that I went to apps.twitter.com, when I entered the application info and agreed on the terms & conditions, Twitter obliged me to enter my phone number, at that point I didn't go further, and stop the integration process, so that's the reason I don't have a twitter integration.

Now I have some other todo's in my head, that I want to add to my blogging system, those are:
- hash the password.
- thinking a way to vote a comment, how to vote anonymously or not?
- replies to comments? maybe? or not necessary?
- search by date?
- create api, so people can get the posts as json, and I can create Angular/React version of my blog, and consume the api.
- create a terminal app to write down my posts, and publish it from it.

So things will get interesting, at least for me :).

Btw, if you are interested in the source code of my blog you can find it [here](https://github.com/aytacworld/blog "Github url yay").
When I started my blog, I already build some expressjs and passportjs applications, so to make it easy for myself, I created npm packages to handle the boilerplate code, I also used those package in my blog, those are [@aytacworld/express](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aytacworld/express) and [@aytacworld/express-login](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aytacworld/express-login), I will write down an article about those too, in the future.

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