Back to Articles Welcome to My Blog! July 27, 2026 • Welcome Personal Tech # Hello and Welcome! Welcome to my brand-new personal blog, hosted right here on my virtual private server! My name is **Mehmet Güngör**, and I am a software engineer passionate about web technologies, backend systems, system administration, and open-source software. This blog is a custom-built, lightweight flat-file platform running on a **LEMP stack** (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP). It doesn't rely on heavy databases or complex content management systems. Instead, posts are written in standard **Markdown** files, parsed securely, and styled with high-performance CSS. ## What to Expect Here On this blog, I plan to write about: - **Web Development**: Backend APIs, modern frontend architectures, and performance optimization. - **System Operations**: Linux server administration, Nginx tuning, and deployment workflows. - **Personal Projects**: Showcases of what I'm building, design patterns I'm testing, and lessons learned along the way. - **Tech Thoughts**: Discussions on new technologies and industry trends. ## A Quick Peek Under the Hood The architecture of this blog is designed to be as simple and performant as possible: 1. **Nginx**: Serves pages with minimal overhead, using clean URL rewrites (e.g., `/post/hello-world` internally maps to `/post.php?id=hello-world`). 2. **PHP**: Scans a directory of Markdown files, extracts the header front matter (Title, Date, Description, Tags), and displays them on the homepage. 3. **Vanilla CSS & JS**: Styled with raw CSS featuring full responsiveness and native Dark/Light mode, with instant browser rendering. Here is a quick code example of how simple our clean routing is: ```nginx # Clean URL routing for posts: /post/some-post -> /post.php?id=some-post location /post/ { rewrite ^/post/([^/]+)/?$ /post.php?id=$1 last; } ``` Stay tuned for more technical articles and guides! If you want to connect, feel free to reach out to me via my social profiles. Thank you for visiting! Loading article...