can kurttekin

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i am a software engineer and full-time observer and tinkerer. i love all kinds of engineering and development. i love free software and freedom.

can at kurttekin dot com

Writings

Computing

[Lenovo Yoga 7i(i5 1335u 16G) - daily driver, Fedora]
[Lenovo Thinkpad x230(i5 3320M, 8G) - Libre system, GNU Guix]
[Acer Nitro 5(i7 7700hq, 16G) - headless, wake-on-lan, Fedora - I use for compiling, running containers, XForwarding some electron apps etc when im out of resources on my main machine]
[Keyboard: Dactyl Manuform]
[Old Phone as a Server - OEM Unlocked, Debian 12 using as Exit Node on my home network, blocking ads with pi-hole, local A/AAAA DNS records, DHCP and Nextcloud]

dotfiles

Text Editor: neovim
WM: Sway
Terminal: foot + tmux
Agentic Tools: opencode + Supermaven plugin on neovim
Browser: Zen and LibreWolf + Vimium
Search Engine: DuckDuckGo
Mobile
- browser: Fennec from F-Droid
- music: VLC for local FLAC playback and RiMusic for streaming

Hobby Development Projects(mostly useless, but I learn as I build)

termtime

screentime like cli app for your bash or zsh history

terminal portfolio

terminal.can.kurttekin.com is a cli portfolio of mine you can ssh built with go and charm

nnotate

Convert book annotation/highlights to online markdown notes with OCR and AI assistance. Built with TypeScript, Firebase and Gemini

pinit-nvim

blazingly fast project based note taking plugin for neovim

R-TOTP

a tui totp app built with rust and ratatui

free software directory

A website that lists free software alternatives for popular proprietary softwares. Built with Angular

flowpoddy

Combine multiple resource in flowchart ui and generate podcasts, resources can be Github Repo, blog post etc. Used Reactjs and React Flow

ATSFS.COM

Track job applications in one place, visualize your data with graphs, quickly edit and update, generate personalized interview questions with integrated AI/LLM

REPOREAD

Generate README markdown for any Github repository in just seconds

PinIt Gnome Shell Extension

GNOME Shell Extension to send yourself custom notifications

WikiArt Wallpaper Gnome Extension

GNOME Shell Extension that changes your desktop wallpaper to WikiArt's Artwork of the day

TCDD-CLI + Web

A tool on your terminal or browser that helps you to find empty seats at Turkish Railways by making requests to TCDD API

Android Debloater GUI

GUI tool to uninstall any apps including system apps without root

Kindle-ai

Ask AI assistant questions using clippings/highlights from your books on your older Kindle

Linux Handheld - Upcycling Old Android Phones

Handheld linux computer made from old Android phone(chroot/proot linux installed) and 3d printed case with keyboard

Reading

Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman - Richard Stallman
Software Engineering - Ian Sommerville
Design Patterns - Gang Of Four
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - Robert C. Martin
Dive Into Design Patterns - Alexander Shvets
Spring Start Here Learn what you need and learn it well - Laurentiu Spilca
Domain-Driven Design - Eric Evans
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms - Jay Wengrow

Spring Microservices in Action - John Carnell, Illary Huaylupo Sánchez
The Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
Effective Java - Joshua Bloch
Effective TypeScript - Dan Vanderkam
Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler
Test Driven Development - Kent Beck
Algorithms - Robert Sedgewick
Grokking Algorithms - Aditya Bhargava

Bookmarks

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