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A friend handed me a 2 TB drive last month: 4,300 tracks, mostly FLAC, a few hundred ALAC, all ripped or downloaded over about eight years. He'd noticed that a handful of his "lossless" files sounded
Last spring I finally ripped my entire CD collection to FLAC — 4,800 tracks, roughly 320 GB, spread across 210 albums. When I shuffled the whole library for the first time, the volume jumps were bruta
Last spring a friend handed me a 12-track mixtape she'd assembled in a DAW she barely knew, and asked why it sounded quiet on her phone but loud in her car. All 12 WAVs, 24-bit/48 kHz, rendered from t
A friend handed me a 900-track folder last month: mostly 2000s electronic singles, tagged inconsistently, bitrates ranging from 128 to 320 kbps. He wanted a playlist for a long drive and complained se
Last winter I ran a small board off a USB port for eleven weeks, logging arrival predictions from the LRT signs near my flat in Kadıköy. The data volume was unremarkable: roughly 40k rows, one line pe
A guesthouse in Ürgüp runs a small reservation script on a €5 VPS. Every ten minutes, cron fires a PHP script that polls the booking inbox over IMAP, parses room requests, and writes them into a MySQL
Two winters ago I started noticing that the power in our flat on the Asian side dropped most Saturday mornings, usually between 09:10 and 09:40, and almost never on Sundays. The fridge clock and the r
The minibus office in Göreme runs a 32-inch screen on the wall showing the next three departures. It was a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with a cheap HDMI panel, LibreOffice Impress in slideshow mode, and a USB st
Last spring I inherited a 6,200-track library from a friend who had ripped it over fifteen years across three laptops. Most of it was FLAC, some 320 kbps MP3, and the metadata was a mess in one specif
A relative's laptop came back from a Göreme trip in September with a swollen battery and a 480 GB SSD that would mount read-only. The drive held roughly 61,000 CR2 files and 14,000 JPEGs from eight ye
A small tour-booking backend I help maintain runs on a 2 vCPU / 4 GB VM in a Turkish datacenter, Postgres 15, and a Go API that handles about 40 requests per second at peak. Last spring, right before
Last March I was planning a week between Göreme and Derinkuyu with almost no signal, so I pre-downloaded map tiles for the whole route onto an old Android phone. I used a small self-hosted tile proxy,
Last spring I helped a small guesthouse in Göreme keep its booking calendar straight. They take reservations through two channels: a web form that writes to a SQLite file, and walk-in bookings typed i
A friend handed me a 6-hour recording of a festival set, exported from a DJ app that shall remain unnamed, plus a CSV of cue points. Version matters here: the app's export wrote times as `mm:ss:ff` wh
I keep a folder of live recordings, mostly audience tapes, about 4,200 FLAC files across 900 shows. They came from trades over the years, so the tagging is whatever the taper's software wrote in 2007
I keep a listening log. Not scrobbles — those live on someone else's server. This is a local file I started in 2019, now at roughly 12,400 rows, one row per track I actually sat through. Until last mo
Last spring I tried to answer a boring question: how late are the intercity buses actually leaving Esenler? Not the posted schedule, the real thing. I had a Pi Zero 2 W, a USB-serial adapter I'd used
In March I helped two friends plan four days in Göreme. The plan was built around one balloon flight on the second morning. The operator cancelled it at 05:10 the same day, citing wind at 1,800 ft. Th