Hi there! I'm Deniz (he/him/they). Welcome to my website!

On here, I share my programming projects, but also a couple of other creative works. Here you can find out a little more about me!

Who are you?

I'm a {age}-year-old living in the north of Germany. I like video games, electronic music, and programming, though I am no pro (languages I know, in descending order of proficiency: GDScript, Kotlin, Java, Python, TypeScript, and a little bit of C# & C). I generally enjoy creative tasks such as CAD modelling (formerly in Fusion 360, now learning FreeCAD); I am currently learning 3D modelling in Blender, and I also used to make music in FL Studio (which I want to do again in the near future). I am also currently studying to become a middle school teacher.

What is this space?

(inspired by this page on blog.avas.space)

At first, my website, formerly under the GitHub Pages domain djd4rkn355.github.io, served to supply data in HTML format for an app I developed for my school – back then, I did not know how to code an API endpoint. Sometime later I figured, why not develop a page of my own?

I then proceeded to do pretty much nothing for a few years, until I started developing a Godot game in 2023. I wanted to share my progress with someone, but I didn't want to bother my friends by constantly bombarding them with tiny little updates, so I figured I could write update posts in the form of a devlog. From this point forward, I continued writing updates, but I also started expanding the website to create my own little space on the web.

I like having this space, because it exposes a part of me I don't/cannot show to people in-person. I can share my interests, but also my projects and anything I work on here. Only thing I'm limited by is my own creativity!

How did you make this?

i'm techy so i'll dump some tech details here

Hardware

I am using either my laptop or my PC, which I built myself in mid-2023 – key specs are: AMD Ryzen 5700X, ASUS RTX 3070, 32 GB memory, 2 TB NVMe storage, 1 TB HDD. Both my computers are currently running Fedora with the KDE Plasma desktop environment. It's a really solid distro that allowed me to free myself from Micro$lop's Windows once and for all. There's a bit of setup required right after installing (for which I used a guide) but once that's done, using the operating system is just as simple as using Windows, except it's far less bloated and much more customisable. Look, I set my application launcher icon to Clank in his backpack form:

As for the server infrastructure: the website is hosted on a Hetzner server instance I am renting. It's a relatively cheap CPX22 node that costs me 7,72€ a month, and besides my website, it's also hosting things such as a Nextcloud instance and a Minecraft server. In order to host and update the website, I pull the changes from the Git repository, build the website as a Node server, then expose it via Nginx.

Tools & Software

My main IDE for writing this website is VSCodium, and the website itself is developed using SvelteKit. I perceive SvelteKit as a relatively light web dev framework: it allows me to create easily-reusable components (like the header, footer, title banner, etc.) and I can also configure it to create HTML from markdown files (which is how I write posts for the Blog and the Project N5 devlog). For this, I use mdsvex by pngwn. After setting it up, it's easier to add content than if I were to rawdog HTML – and it's a lot easier to change something if the need arises (which I do more often than I'd like to admit). A lot of the actual page creation is still done with almost entirely vanilla HTML/CSS though, so there's not too much to re-learn.

This website uses two fonts: body text uses Bai Jamjuree by Cadson Demak (G Fonts | GitHub), headers and monospaced text use Kode Mono by Isa Ozler (G Fonts | GitHub).

Contact

If you want to contact me, please write an e-mail to: denizk0461@mailbox.org

Anything else?

hmm... this website and everything else I make comes straight from my own hands and brain. No generative AI is used, ever.

Last updated: 2026-02-01