Who am I?
Hello! I'm Barış or you might know me by my online name shinysquirrel. I'm really interesed in origami and a teeny tiny bit in Japanese Culture. I'm currently a mathematics student at METU. Topology and geometry currently interest me the most but we'll see what I end up doing as I'm a first year student as of 2026. I'm also one of the coordinators of the Japanese Culture Club at METU. I'm mostly responsible for the origami workshop there, but I try to take responsibility outside of the origami workshop aswell. I try to listen to all kinds of music. From all the different genre's of metal to the very niche jazz bands, I try to give all of them a chance. I'm a firm believer in open-source software. I use debian with kde on my laptop.
Why make a website?
I was inspired by a youtube video I saw a while back to get into making my own website. Basically this whole "a few big corporation's controlling all of the internet" bullshit was frustrating me. Because nearly every single aspect of today's internet (rather what most people consider as "the internet") is designed to generate profit for these corporations. We are used as some form of money generation by these fuckers. We are constantly pulled into these money generating apps by them with their addictive and engagement based algorithms. Or we are pulled by the fact that nearly all of our friends are in these apps and that we don't have any better way of communicating with them. I wanted a way out of this loop. I wanted a way to rebel against this corrupt system. That is kind off why I made a website.
