Prefers concrete examples over frameworks of the week.
Last spring I was prepping a 74-minute ambient set for a small room with a borrowed CDJ setup. I had ripped the tracks myself from FLAC, converted to 320 kbps MP3 for the USB stick (the club's players
The guesthouse has eight rooms in a Kapadokya village, and the owner takes bookings on a phone over Wi-Fi that drops every time the wind picks up. The original form was a single POST to a PHP script:
A friend handed me a 2 TB drive last spring: 312 WAV files from six years of field recording, names like `ZOOM0007.WAV`, plus a spreadsheet with dates and locations that had drifted out of sync with t
The 01:30 Istanbul–Göreme night bus, a Mercedes Tourismo, was advertising a Wi-Fi network with no password. My phone connected, got a DHCP lease, and then nothing: no DNS, no gateway, five bars of lie
Last spring I helped a guesthouse in Göreme move its booking page off a shared PHP host onto a single 4 GB VPS. The site is tiny: about 40 bookings a day in season, a handful of room-photo requests, a
Last spring I played a four-hour closing set from a 2,300-track library split across two USB drives and a laptop running Traktor 3.8 on macOS 13.6. Somewhere around hour three, the laptop's USB bus hi
Last April I spent six days walking the valleys between Göreme and Çavuşin with a phone that had no data plan and a 2016-era 32 GB microSD card. The usual offline map apps wanted 1.2–2 GB for the regi
Rekordbox 6.6.4 on macOS 13.4, library of 912 tracks, all analyzed with the same settings. After a batch re-analysis, 37 tracks showed keys that were a semitone off from what Mixed In Key had reported
The guesthouse in Ürgüp has stone walls about 70 cm thick, six rooms, and a router that lived on a shelf in the breakfast room. In January 2023 the owner sent me a photo of the router's lights and a m
Last spring I inherited a 5-hour, 44.1 kHz/16-bit stereo recording of a warehouse party — one WAV, 1.6 GB, no tracklist, and a promoter who wanted per-track files for a digital release. The DJ never s
A small esnaf café in Ürgüp asked me to fix the laminated bus timetable they kept taped to the window. Their problem wasn't the schedule; it was the sun. By August the print had faded to pale yellow,
A friend sent me a 2h14m live set as a single 320 kbps MP3, ripped from a radio broadcast. It sounded fine on speakers, but through headphones at every track boundary there was a tiny click, and the t
Two winters ago I was in Göreme for nine days, mostly waiting out snow and taking notes on a beat-up ThinkPad running Debian 12. I kept a plain folder of Markdown files — one per day, plus a `places.m
A friend handed me a 3-hour 24-bit/48kHz recording of a live DJ set — 2.9 GB, one continuous file, transitions that ride for 60–90 seconds each. He wanted it split for streaming and "made the quiet pa
Two winters ago I ran a bulk tag rewrite across my library: 9,142 files, mostly FLAC with a few hundred 320k MP3s, sitting on a 4TB external drive formatted exFAT because I share it with a Windows mac
Last April I started scraping the public arrival boards for the T1 tram line in Istanbul. Not for a dashboard, just to answer a personal question: how often is the displayed "2 min" actually true? I p