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1st METU Undergraduate Students Philosophy Congress – Day 1 Observation

I've been waiting for this philosophy congress for a while, and today, with great curiosity, I went to METU to attend. Normally, some of my friends (like Ege) thought my presence at the philosophy congress was unusual and were surprised. They knew my stance on philosophy, but since I aim to learn all kinds of information, there's nothing unusual about it. When I arrived, I was 70 […]

Prevent Right-Clicking on a Site

I noticed some people are asking about preventing right-click access on their sites. I'll share a simple code snippet, but I want to provide some information. If you're doing this out of fear of content theft, someone with little knowledge in these matters will be able to access all your content. Page source files are eventually accessible. Let's move on to our code. Add the following script to your site: document.addEventListener(“contextmenu”, function(e){ e.preventDefault(); }, false);

Php Lesson 5 – Conditions

In programming, conditions are used to determine which code will run if the specified conditions are true or false. If/Else/ElseIf is a construct that performs the specified action if the condition within the parentheses is true, and if it is false if it is specified again. Its syntax is as follows; if( Condition ) { operation } elseif ( Another Condition ) { operation } else { […]

What is an explorer's greatest fear?

What's an explorer's greatest fear? There are only two I can see. The first is the exhaustion of what the universe can discover. For an explorer, a curious person, this is like dying. Goals, purposes, everything runs out. But when it comes to the vastness of the universe, it's the fear that never crosses an explorer's mind. The second is the endless questions, the never-ending curiosity and desire to learn […]

Alfred Noyes, The Torchbearers

We glorified wars. Blind and bloodthirsty kings marched to their thrones with epic music. Why have you not glorified this noblest of wars? The war of those who fought to find the light, yet could not even dream of the victory they helped win, the silent explorers, the lonely pioneers, the prisoners and exiles, the martyrs of truth who passed the torch [of science] from generation to generation… Alfred Noyes, Torchbearers, The Observatory