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Fatih Arslan

arslan.io

I’m an Engineer with a passion for Design. I enjoy writing about everyday occurrences, especially the inspirations that drive me, and my journey.

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Posts
97 from 8 Oct 2015 to 5 Oct 2026
Posting
monthly (11 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 7

  1. The lamps in my house
  2. How I manage my agents
  3. Joining Cursor
  4. Kubernetes runs on feedback loops
  5. Review of the MoErgo Go60 Keyboard
  6. Typeface Specimens of Houston Mono™
  7. Nakaya Aka-Tame Fountain Pen

2025 17

  1. Books I Read in 2025
  2. A Look at My Fountain Pens
  3. Midori MD Notebooks
  4. My two-part desk setup
  5. Thoughts on the Leica M EV1
  6. Bambu Lab H2S vs X1C
  7. A Week in Billund: LEGO House, LEGOLAND, and Lalandia
  8. Hyper Case: Designing my own keyboard case
  9. Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera ?
  10. Automatic dark mode for Terminal Apps, Revisited
  11. The Barbican
  12. Managing friction
  13. I was wrong about AI Coding
  14. Plotter Notebook System
  15. The Zettelkasten note taking methodology
  16. My first lighting design: Block Lamp
  17. Four years at PlanetScale

2024 14

  1. New homepage design
  2. How I Designed a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone Dock
  3. My Homelab Setup
  4. A month in Munich
  5. Automating my gate door
  6. Vitsoe vs USM shelving
  7. A morning in Nymphenburg Palace Park
  8. A comparison between the M2 and M4 iPad Pro
  9. Why I prefer the iPad over a MacBook
  10. Braun Börse 2024
  11. Calendar types in Watches
  12. Review of the MoErgo Glove80 keyboard
  13. Faculty of Architecture, METU Ankara
  14. Tesla Model Y: My 6 months impressions

2023 11

  1. A review of the Nomos Metro neomatik 41 Update
  2. The ups and downs with my Apple Watch
  3. Ulus, the old town of Ankara
  4. Braun AW 50
  5. Tesla Model Y: First Impressions
  6. The benefits of using a single configuration file
  7. Die Notizen No. 2
  8. How I backup my Photos
  9. Die Notizen No. 1
  10. A review of My Mind (a second brain tool)
  11. From Fujifilm to Leica: My Experience with the M11

2022 11

  1. Recap Year 2022
  2. Functional table-driven tests in Go
  3. Keyboards I’ve used in the past two decades
  4. Coffee in Seoul
  5. Reflections on my relationship with social media
  6. Review of the Kinesis Advantage360 Professional
  7. Teenage Engineering POM-400
  8. A new home for my blog
  9. Coffee in Tokyo
  10. Designing a wireless charging pad
  11. How I got into 3D printing

2021 3

  1. My review of the Moonlander MK1 keyboard
  2. Automatic dark mode for terminal applications
  3. Joining PlanetScale

2020 2

  1. Why I left the U.S.
  2. Using go/analysis to fix your source code

2019 5

  1. Why you should use a Go module proxy
  2. How to write idempotent Bash scripts
  3. Using go/analysis to write a custom linter
  4. Tom Bihn Nik's Minimalist Wallet Review
  5. Using the iPad Pro as my development machine

2018 9

  1. Recap Year 2018
  2. Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects
  3. Tom Bihn Aeronaut 30 Review
  4. Using Go modules with vendor support on Travis CI
  5. How to write a Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin
  6. Tips & tricks to batch edit EXIF metadata of photos
  7. Alacritty integration with Tmux
  8. Why I turned off comments
  9. Recap: Year 2017

2017 11

  1. Tom Bihn Guide's Edition Synapse 25 Review
  2. Configure Arq to backup to DigitalOcean Spaces
  3. Notes about migrating to Hugo
  4. Blue Bottle in Japan
  5. Tom Bihn Tri-Star Bag Review
  6. Tom Bihn Daylight Briefcase Review
  7. The ultimate guide to writing a Go tool
  8. Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
  9. Minaal Daily Bag review
  10. Goruck GR1 (26L) Backpack Review
  11. Starting your Coffee journey

2016 2

  1. Navigation between functions and types in vim-go
  2. Treating Go types as objects in Vim

2015 5

  1. My journey about implementing an HCL parser in pure Go
  2. A look at Go lexer/scanner packages
  3. Drift: A coffee geek’s dream magazine
  4. Receiving Kindle books as donation for my open source project
  5. Ten Useful Techniques in Go