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farslan

2,431 karma · joined November 28, 2010

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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farslan··on Making 768 servers look like 1
That's not true! We have demand for bigger machines and we also sell them. You can go checkout the PlanetScale website. See: https://x.com/samlambert/status/2077197049129587150

There are truly customers that bigger machine no longer cuts.

Disclaimer: I'm an Engineer at PS.

farslan··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
I wrote it in the blog post, it's 200x75cm
farslan··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
Before the Vitsoe, I had an Elvarli from IKEA.
farslan··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
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.
farslan··on Exe.dev
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.
farslan··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
Yeah same, I'm curious about this. I would guess it's by default enabled with Claude Code.
farslan··on The Barbican
TIL about this, thanks so much.
farslan··on The Barbican
Thank you! I've fixed it.
farslan··on The Barbican
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)

farslan··on The Barbican
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.

farslan··on The Barbican
Thank you!
farslan··on The Barbican
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
farslan··on The Barbican
All good, thanks for mentioning it. I really want to visit it. The tour guide said it's open on certain days/hours.
farslan··on The Barbican
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.
farslan··on The Barbican
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.
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
I used Apple's Silicon Case as a base for my design.
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Thank you for the comment. I learned a lot from you and will look into these. Are there any resources I could use to learn more about these, especially sculpting smooth models?
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
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?
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Thank you!
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
I tried, but then the look completely changes.
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Can you expand by what you mean by `top heavy`? The center of mass is actually not at the top.
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Product designers are mostly on Instagram and YouTube unfortunately. It's rare for people to write like me. But /r/IndustrialDesign(er) and /r/Design are good places for written communication.
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
You should be fine, go for it :)
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
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.
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
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.

farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
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.

farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
I didn't say that, but that's ok :)
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Yes! We don't have AppleCare Plus here, hence I have to use with a case. I designed it with a case in mind.
farslan··on I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock
Thanks a lot.
farslan··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Thank you, I'll look into it.
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