Fatih Arslan

After 5 years and 7 months of working for PlanetScale, this past Friday was my last day. PlanetScale was my longest tenure ever. I never thought I would stay for such a long time. But it was a place where I could shine, and it had an amazing engineering c

For the past few years I've spent most of my time building database operators on top of Kubernetes. Along the way I kept coming back to the same idea: under all the YAML and the moving parts, Kubernetes is really a framework for feedback controllers. It's

It's time for another keyboard review.Last year, I reviewed the MoErgo Glove80. It was and is still one of my most visited blog posts.In that review, I compared it to the Kinesis Advantage360 Pro and wrote about the travel case, design, switches, tenting,

Neil Panchal, the creator of soon-to-released Typeface Houston Mono, recently sent me a complimentary set of the TX-24 Houston Mono typeface specimens. Some of you know this probably, but U.S Graphics is also the company that created the famous Berkeley M

I've read quite a few books in 2025, and this time, instead of using Goodreads, I decided to keep a list in my personal notebook. I also wrote down the date I finished them.Books are a big part of my life. When I was very young, I had a membership to our

The first time I used a fountain pen was in Grundschule, the German primary school system. I believe I was 7 or 8 years old, though it might have been a few years later. Back then my father bought me a Lamy Safari, and I only used cartridges. I had tons o

Over the past months, I gathered all sorts of notebooks. Not all notebooks are meant to be used for the same task. Some are for scratching random bits, some are good for journaling, and some are nice for sketching. For example, I use the Plotter system ex

After designing a few gadget-related projects, I decided to take on a new challenge: designing a lighting from scratch. Lighting is an area of fascination for me. I have an ongoing draft post about the various designer lamps in my home that I plan to publ

For years, my desk was pushed against the wall. I would sit in front of it, look at the wall, and work. It was fine, and I never really questioned it.After a recent trip to Hamburg, visiting various museums and exhibitions, something struck me. I hadn't s

Leica has just introduced the new Leica M EV1 - the first M-system camera to swap its traditional optical rangefinder for a built-in electronic viewfinder. As someone who owns an M11 (with three lenses (21 SEM, 35 LUX, and 50 LUX) and uses it daily, I wan