Launching Kaan's Lab

If you are reading this, the blog is officially online. Before anything else, you should probably check the About page if you have not already. It explains the purpose of this space and the mindset behind it. This blog is not a portfolio or a corporate write up. It is closer to a notebook, a lab, a place to document curiosity in motion.

Now for the story behind getting this setup online.

It started pretty simply. I wanted a personal space that did not feel tied to social media or a commercial platform. The idea evolved into hosting a blog on my own domain rather than relying on Medium or similar places. So I picked blog.kaan.org and decided it would live outside the main site to give it its own identity.

From there it turned into a small infrastructure journey. DNS routing in GoDaddy, A and AAAA records, checking propagation, making sure blog.kaan.org pointed to the right place. Then onto Hetzner. I could have gone with a shared option or a hosted blog service, but running the stack myself was the only choice that made sense for the tone of this site. So I spun up a machine, configured the basics, wired HTTPS, tuned a few performance and security settings, and made sure everything behaved without surprises.

There is something oddly satisfying about seeing a new subdomain resolve for the first time after the records kick in. The whole thing became a reminder that small projects still deserve thoughtful engineering. Even a single blog can become a tiny ecosystem of its own, and I enjoy that.

This setup will probably evolve. Maybe I will move it to a bigger machine later, maybe containerize it, maybe deploy CI, maybe rewrite the whole thing in a moment of questionable decision making. That is the point of a lab. Nothing here is frozen. Everything here can change.

What matters for now is that the site is live and the space is created. The rest will happen through experimenting, documenting, and learning in public.

Welcome to Kaan’s Lab.
Curiosity applied.