Robert has a lot of stuff up his sleeve for connecting bloggers around the smallweb. After an amazing Junited 2026, now it’s time for JulyReply 2026!
I really enjoyed participating in Junited. Thanks to that, I connected with a few bloggers, one of whom was Imperfect. Imperfect inspired me to write reply posts, but I was reluctant until now. What’s a better excuse than JulyReply to start doing…
Read & enjoyed:
Also see the blog posts I saved in my Junited…
We drink a LOT of tea in Turkey. Happy? Let's drink tea. Sad? Drink tea. Tired? Tea. Relaxed? TEA. I also enjoy brewing tea in the evenings, especially when we have guests. But I was very frustrated with the inconsistency of my tea brewing. One day I decided to apply what I'd learned from brewing coffee to brewing tea.
This is for brewing Turkish-style black tea. I've never applied it to other…
Happy Summer Solstice and Father's Day!
Yesterday we saw the new play by our comrades in Antrakt7: Fairfly. It's a play written by the Catalan author Joan Yago which tells the story of four white-collar workers who, upon getting the news of their potential layoff, decide to "change the world."
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Let me briefly summarize the story here. If you don't want to get spoilers, skip…
I created a group in the Critical Theory space on DFOS for people who want to talk about the philosophy of Slavoj Žižek. I don't know if this will turn into something. I would love it if this place became somewhere Žižekians, Lacanians, Hegelians and Marxists could connect with each other and exchange ideas.
If you're reading this, consider yourself invited.
The appeal of living in a small town is being surrounded by the right number of people whom you can care about. On the other hand, living in a big city might make you feel lonely in huge crowds.
Being a blogger in smallweb (or IndieWeb) is akin to living in a small town with one big exception: there’s no square in the middle of town, no town hall to gather around. In this sense maybe the proper…
I do strength training with a personal trainer 3-4 times a week. Almost every time I'm a few minutes late and I always inform him that I'll be late. He says I'm so traditionally late that I don't even need to mention it. I guess the same applies to my weekly updates.
i registered my blog to AT proto as a standard.site. why doesn't leaflet.pub automatically publish my standard.site.document?
update: aah apparently i am blind. the post is actually published here. thanks leaflet.pub!
If you are part of indieweb, you probably noticed people talking about standard.site. It's a recent addition to AT Protocol to publish long form content. You might think of it as POSSE on steroids.
I spent hours today figuring out how to integrate my blog with standard.site. It was not as hard as I thought thanks to David Bushell and Mat Marquis.
The first thing you need to do is sign in and…
I wrote five different paragraphs to start this post and couldn't stitch any of them together. So here are all five fragments.
My ability to do good is limited by my ability to work with others.
Three years ago multiple earthquakes devastated the southeastern region of Turkey. The things we saw were unimaginably bad. Within a few days people started organizing to collect food, clothes,…
i'm writing this in amsterdam. i'll be in the city for kubecon till friday.
let me know if you want to meet!
it's been almost a month since i wrote that i'm yearning for a digital
community that runs preferably on
irc. guess what, there's now the dealgorithmed irc
server. if you
want to believe in the magic, voice your intentions more.
halloy.chat might be the prettiest software i've…
Weekends feel busier than weekdays lately. Time flew, and I just noticed that I didn't manage to finish this week's post. This was bound to happen. It's okay. Shhh... it's okay. IT'S OKAY! Discipline is not punching yourself into the mold of a wireheaded soldier. Discipline is the ability to flow around, between, and through various slip-ups. Discipline is persistently looking at the horizon.…
Sunday reflection on the passing week.
I charged my car battery! This might sound unimportant to you, but it was a
big deal for me. My father was a handyman and I helped him a lot on different
projects throughout my childhood. So in theory I have a good grasp of how to use
tools. But it was not enough. One also needs to be willing to do this kind of
stuff, which I was not. My experiences of…
Random thoughts on the passing week.
_Another Sunday, another weekly reflection._
This was a really busy week. I worked more than 8 full-focus hours every
single weekday. This means I probably spent more than 10 hours in front of the
computer. It's a lot! Thankfully this week was a 4-day week so I had time to
rest.
On Friday I spent the whole day working on my sculpture. The bust is coming
along. I decided to do something strange…
if you find yourself wondering “what does ege listen to on repeat these days” i got you fam:
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Pluribus
We were watching _Pluribus_ for the last 10 days and finished the first season
today. I have mixed feelings about the show. I especially found the first few
episodes hard to watch because I couldn't stand Carol. It got easier towards
the end of the season but I can't say that I loved the show. Nevertheless, it
was an interesting watch. I especially liked the depiction of the…
I'm writing this in haste before packing my laptop for travel. This will be a short one.
"Normie" is a volatile term. Depending on the context, it might refer to atheists, New Agers, people who watch Netflix, people who don't do drugs, conservatives, liberals, people who care about politics, people who don't care about politics, people who are optimistic about the future, people who are pessimistic about the future, people who read only fiction, people who don't read at all, people…
_Another Sunday, another weekly reflection post._
This is the 8th week since I created hypersubject.net. The effects of this experiment are already tangible. Compared to last year, I have already spent twice as many hours working on my blog(s) and nearly half that time writing even though we are only two months into 2026. I have already published 12 posts this year, which is far more than my…
Richard Stallman had a Marxian effect on technology in the 1980s. He started
the Free Software movement. His ideas mobilized a vast number of programmers
and the ideology he initiated still has a great gravity in the software
ecosystem. Since the year 2000, thousands of developers travel to Brussels
every February like pilgrims for Free and Open Source Software Developers'
European Meeting…
Daily blogging is definitely not easy. I couldn't write a post today :(
I am writing this from the drafts.app and will publish it via an action. I hope I don't turn this site into twitter. Although, since it's my site, I can do whatever I want. This is my home; I can behave however I want here. Twitter, on the contrary, feels like a town hall. Yeah it's crowded, so no one really pays attention…
In the spirit of the previous post, you're invited to Base. Why Base? It's the 25th anniversary of _"All Your Base Are Belong To Us"_.
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_One day late reflection on the previous week._
Last weekend was so busy that I couldn't find an hour to sit and write a few
paragraphs. Yesterday, we had a Mother's Day dinner with my in-laws (where
did the morning go? who knows!). On Saturday, I watched my first ever American
football game. My hometown team, the Halcyons, was playing against the ITU
Hornets. Unfortunately we got our asses…
group chat is silent. no one responds to your invitation. it’s okay. it’s been months since you walked aimlessly in the streets. didn’t you miss being a flaneur?
aren’t you entertained?
you bump into Spinoza. HELLO MR. SPINOZA! such a great philosopher. you take a selfie with him. suddenly, the anxiety of an imaginary scene where someone asks you “what’s the gist of spinoza?” clenches your…
Just finished another session of psychoanalysis. Analysis is by far the thing I least enjoy every week. I mean, it works, at least for me, but it's definitely not something I look forward to. Because it demands me to say the Thing.
What's the Thing? No one knows. Is there even a Thing? Probably not. But its non-existence doesn't mean that it has no effects. Structurally, the analyst occupies the…
Why are vibes so bad when economic metrics don't look that bad? Scott Alexander tries to find an answer to this question. Zvi too.
I have a great respect for Scott and Zvi. Their rationality and ability to deduce answers from the empirical data are important. However, I am not as rational as they are, so I can only talk about the "vibe" side of things.
Analyzing the "vibecession" —or the Great…
