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farslan

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Design addict. Photographer. I love Vim and Tools.

I write about Design, Photography, Programming, and many other things on my blog: https://arslan.io

@fatih on x.com

look for my open-source projects at https://github.com/fatih/

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planetscale.com 1mo ago

The feedback loops behind Kubernetes

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arslan.io 1mo ago

Review of the MoErgo Go60 Keyboard

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arslan.io 1mo ago

Typeface Specimens of Houston Mono

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arslan.io 6mo ago

Books I Read in 2025

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arslan.io 7mo ago

Midori MD Notebooks

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arslan.io 8mo ago

My two-part desk setup

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arslan.io 9mo ago

Thoughts on the new Leica M EV1

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arslan.io 1y ago

The Hyper Case: Designing my own keyboard case

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arslan.io 1y ago

Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera?

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arslan.io 1y ago

The Barbican

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arslan.io 1y ago

Managing Friction

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arslan.io 1y ago

I was wrong about AI Coding

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arslan.io 1y ago

My thoughts about the Zettelkasten note taking methodology

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ia.net 1y ago

Our Android App Is Frozen in Carbonite

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arslan.io 1y ago

I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock

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arslan.io 2y ago

Automating my gate door via a smart relay

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arslan.io 2y ago

A comparison between the M2 and M4 iPad Pro

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arslan.io 2y ago

Why I prefer the iPad over a MacBook

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twitter.com 2y ago

M4 is 25% faster in multi-core compared to M3

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arslan.io 2y ago

Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair

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arslan.io 2y ago

Calendar types in watches

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arslan.io 2y ago

My feelings about X (formerly Twitter)

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go.dev 2y ago

Go team is considering adding range-over function iterators

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arslan.io 2y ago

The ups and downs with my Apple Watch

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arslan.io 2y ago

Braun AW 50

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arslan.io 3y ago

Tesla Model Y: First impressions

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arslan.io 3y ago

The benefits of using a single configuration file

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arslan.io 3y ago

A review of My Mind (a second brain tool)

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arslan.io 3y ago

From Fujifilm to Leica: My Experience with the M11

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arslan.io 3y ago

Functional table-driven tests in Go

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Lol. I just love things man. What a rude comment. You even don’t know me :) Check my x.com/fatih account for more. I don’t withhold the things that bring me joy.

Exe.dev 7 months ago

Both are also early Go engineers and developers who hacked on the Go stdlib for years. Most people in the Go community know them. Great people, and the idea speaks for it. I wish them best of luck.

The Barbican 1 year ago

Funny because I always thought of `nit` as something like `btw`. It never occured to me it's actually an abbrevation of nitpick :) Learnt something new today. I'll fix it, thank you!

(English is my second language, so stuff like this can happen sometimes)

The Barbican 1 year ago

People always ask which camera or lens I use, hence I added it upfront. Leica's are expensive I agree. It was a dream of mine to use it though for almost two decades. I finally was in a position to get it three years ago.

To your question, the RAW's, unprocessed files are not like this from a Leica. You need to color grade (photographers say "post processing"). Color grading is used mostly for Video. In Photography, there are a lot of other things, it's mostly about light, not color. Highlights, Shadows, Contrast, Blacks/Whites etc.. Of course colors are also very important.

If you want good colors straight out of the camera, you could look into FujiFilm.

The Barbican 1 year ago

You’re right. I submitted it as The Barbican here, because that felt more natural for me. I just updated the title of my blog post to The Barbican as well

The Barbican 1 year ago

All good, thanks for mentioning it. I really want to visit it. The tour guide said it's open on certain days/hours.

The Barbican 1 year ago

Op. The greenhouse was closed, hence I hadn't a chance to photograph the place. There are too many details about that place, and I only shared the pieces that I've had chance to thoroughly visit.

The Barbican 1 year ago

OP here. I hadn't a chance to visit it. Because of that, I also don't have any photos from there. But good point. I actually just received one of the books I recommend at the end of the blog post, which actually goes into the Barbican Event centre in more detail.

Interesting you said that, but I used G2 almost everywhere, except in the inner holes of the phone part. If you share a picture, I can happily show the Sharp3D equivalent. Maybe the G2 curvature wasn't as aggressive as it should be?

It's not a lot, because I printed it with an infill of 10%. You can increase it, and make it around 40% or 50%. Some people also use sands to make it heavy. For now it doesn't bother me and I think because I'm putting other things on top of the tray, it doesn't move around easily.

OP Here.

1. In the blog post I actually worked on that for a few days. But I didn't like it as much I liked this one.

2. Unfortunately the default Apple MagSafe charger that I can use as a customer isn't easily bendable like that. TwelveSouth and other companies use custom parts, so it's possible to integrate them in a better way.

I did all my CAD work via https://www.shapr3d.com/. It runs on multiple platforms, but I use it on my iPad Pro. There are many other options, such as OnShape, Fusion, FreeCad etc.. However most of them have their own quirks

Onshape: It's public domain on Hobbyist plan, so anything I create has to be by default Public. The next plan they have is $1500 yearl

Fusion: This is the most recommended one, however it's macOS and Windows only. Their Hobbyist plan is pretty generous, but the UI is very slow on macOS and it doesn't have an iPad app.

For me, the iPad Pro is a huge enabler. I don't want to sit down in front of my MacBook because I already work the whole day. Second, with the Apple Pencil it's so much easier and intuitive compared to anything else.

The only ceveat with Shapr3D is the cost. I paid for the yearly subscription, which was around $299. And it's the cheapest of all of them btw.