About Kaan's Lab
Welcome to Kaan’s Lab; a place where curiosity meets code, experiments meet insights, and journey meets reflection. I’m Kaan: a developer, gamer, tinkerer, and eternal learner. This blog is my public sketchbook; a lab bench for ideas, thoughts, experiments, and discoveries.
What this blog is about
- Software & Systems — I share notes and walkthroughs about real software projects: home labs, cloud vs on-prem comparisons, infrastructure decisions, optimizations, monitoring setups, and more.
- Gaming & Tech Culture — As a gamer and tech enthusiast, I talk about gaming rigs, config tweaks, overlays, performance tuning, and game reviews/ideas/experiments.
- Learning & Experimentation — I believe in “learning by doing.” Whether it’s spinning up a server cluster, testing a new SaaS or CDN, or configuring a complex setup on unusual hardware; I document what worked, what failed, and what I learned.
- Reflections & Mixed Thoughts — Sometimes I step back and write about broader things: software-lifecycle tradeoffs, cost vs benefit for infrastructure decisions, the balance between ambition and pragmatism, and other thoughts that don’t neatly fit into code.
- Creative Tech-adjacent Projects — From synthwave music generators to interactive maps to data-driven prototypes, this blog holds space for the creative, experimental, and playful uses of technology beyond just “production-ready.”
Why “Kaan’s Lab”
Because this is not a polished “expert blog.” It’s a workspace, a lab. A place to sketch out ideas, to treat failures as valuable data, to evolve. Everything here is a prototype: sometimes refining, sometimes breaking, always learning.
What you can expect
- Frequent (maybe not so much...) posts exploring deep dives, practical tutorials, notes from experiments, and occasionally spontaneous thoughts.
- Honest, no-fluff breakdowns: what worked, what backfired, how I tweaked the setup.
- A mix of technical depth and personal perspective because if you run infrastructure, you deal with costs, trade-offs, hacks, and human context.
- Openness to evolve: this site, its structure, and its purpose may change over time just like in a real lab.
Who this blog is for
- Fellow devs, sysadmins, or engineers curious about building things or experimenting with edge setups.
- Gamers and enthusiasts who care about performance, games, config tweaks etc.
- Anyone who likes to see “behind the scenes”: not just polished finished work, but the messy in-between: trials, failures, and learnings.
- People who enjoy thoughtful reflections on technology and life’s trade-offs from a practical, engineer’s perspective.