The blog
Essays on aviation, entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and the habits of the world around us. Written from Istanbul, between flights and side projects.
BlogIn 2018 my friends and I founded inovanadolu, a non-profit for anyone in Türkiye with an idea. Channels, projects, mentors, a 7,000-entry dictionary, tests and free tools.
Read the storyA full-screen world map drawn like an old engraved chart. Click any country and a song from there starts playing.
Airport Quiz is a small game for people who read departure boards for fun. 1,185 airports, five game modes, a split-flap board, and a map to explore,…
I turned my PhD on innovation and personality into a free, 15-minute test. 94 questions, 10 dimensions, 8 archetypes, and a report that tells you…
Follow one A321neo through six flights and 24 hours in an interactive story: night maintenance, fuel, load control, the turnaround and a delay's…
Flight Route Mapper draws the great-circle route between any airports on a 3D globe, with distance, flight time and countries crossed.
A free, colourful world map game I built for my son: 197 countries, capitals and flags, six quiz modes, and a memory that brings back the ones he…
Aircraft Spotter is a free aircraft recognition quiz: 26 airliners, 129 real photos, three game modes and a spotter's guide to the winglets, noses…
A free browser game based on the legend of Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi: leap from Galata Tower, ride rising air across the Bosphorus and land in Üsküdar.
Snowy Day is a free 3D browser driving game I build after the kids are asleep: a snowy mountain road, Kurt the dog in the pickup, chess, tavla and…
Play a shift as an airline load controller: compute EZFW, plan the hold, issue the final loadsheet and handle LMCs across eight flights, plus a…
A street musician is playing. There is a microphone and a small amp. But the sound is far too loud for the size of the space.
DigitalOcean has always been the quiet kid in the corner of the cloud playground. While Amazon Web Services (AWS) throws endless features, acronyms…
Freelancing once felt like a promise. Freedom, creativity, and a chance to live on your own terms.
When you turn forty, something interesting happens. You start wanting to put a word next to your name, maybe a title.
In 1998, at fourteen, I opened Microsoft FrontPage and built maglud.com. It ended up on national TV, ranked on the first page of AltaVista for 'web…
Most ideas don't die because they fail. They die because someone got scared they might work.
What if a startup could pitch to an investor in the middle of a long-haul flight? At Turkish Airlines we built Invest on Board, a channel on the…
In 2013 I turned my own agency's website into a gloriously terrible 90s parody, with chick-painting services, an English page written in Turkish and…
Before the startups, the agency and the airline, I wanted to make clothes. I spent a year and a half learning the trade, built a brand called VICAHEN…
