About

Ekin Karadeniz with his sister
Me at 4 y.o. (left) and sister

I was born in the mid-1990s in Samsun, a city in northern Türkiye. The happiest moments I remember in my life were from my childhood. As I stepped into adulthood and realized that life wouldn’t always be perfect, I turned to the one thing that brought me the most joy; learning. I became addicted to the happiness that learning something new brings.

My first computer, which I got during my childhood, ran on Windows 98 and didn’t have the hardware to support many games. Instead of playing games, I was more interested in building websites using Microsoft FrontPage. That’s how I learned to create websites with HTML. I think I launched my first website in 2006 using a free hosting service.

A few years later, I watched a tutorial on YouTube about creating a guestbook with PHP. With the knowledge I gained from that, I started experimenting with PHP and databases, building various projects on my own. Looking back, I sometimes wonder—if I had spent my time playing games instead of tinkering with HTML, would I still be as passionate about programming today?

My interests are not limited to programming and software. I also have an amateur interest in philosophy, history, and physics. I could spend hours talking about these topics with others.

And here I am, still searching for the right answers...