Fatih Arslan

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• Blog arslan.io His personal blog: Go tooling, PlanetScale, industrial design, and a yearly books post.

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  • The lamps in my house 5 Oct 2026 I have a thing for lamps. Especially designer lamps from the past. I occasionally share them on X and Instagram, and people always ask me about the brands and models. I love lamps so much that I designed one myself. So…
  • How I manage my agents 11 Sept 2026 There are probably hundreds of posts like this. But I wanted to share my workflow about how I create and manage a fleet of agents. I've had huge success with it over the past few months. I rely on some sort of index, wh…
  • Joining Cursor 10 Aug 2026 I’m joining Cursor (soon to be part of SpaceX) to work on Cloud Agents. I’ll still be managing state, only agents this time instead of databases.

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  • Kubernetes runs on feedback loops 16 Jun 2026 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 fram…
  • Review of the MoErgo Go60 Keyboard 2 Jun 2026 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 tr…
  • Typeface Specimens of Houston Mono™ 31 May 2026 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 compa…
  • Nakaya Aka-Tame Fountain Pen 19 Mar 2026 I recently acquired a new Fountain Pen: The Aka-tame from Nakaya. It is my first Japanese fountain pen, and also my first urushi pen (more on this later). After writing a few pages with it, I wanted to write down a few…
  • Books I Read in 2025 26 Dec 2025 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 v…
  • A Look at My Fountain Pens 19 Dec 2025 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…
  • Midori MD Notebooks 4 Dec 2025 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…
  • My two-part desk setup 18 Nov 2025 How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
  • Thoughts on the Leica M EV1 25 Oct 2025 As a Leica M11 owner with three lenses (21 SEM, 35 LUX, and 50 LUX), here are some of my opinions regarding the newly released Leica M EV1.
  • Bambu Lab H2S vs X1C 1 Oct 2025 I upgraded my three year old 3d Printer, the Bambu Lab X1C with the newly released H2S. There are multiple reasons I choose to upgrade and wanted to scribble down my thoughts here for others. X1C vs H2S Bigger build pla…
  • A Week in Billund: LEGO House, LEGOLAND, and Lalandia 30 Aug 2025 We spent a week in Billund, Denmark. The home of LEGO. LEGO fans know that Billund has a special place. Not only is it the hometown of LEGO, but it also has the famous LEGO House (a museum + experience center), LEGOLAND…
  • Hyper Case: Designing my own keyboard case 5 Jul 2025 The Hyper case is my latest design project. It's a custom-made case for the Halcyon Elora Split keyboard made by the company splitkb.com. I already published it on my website under the "Design & Works" page. But subscri…

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• x.com @fatih His X account.

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  • This is a good idea. For example I have a skill that reviews some of our Kubernetes code for best practices/correctness based on my blog post 16 Oct 2026 planetscale.com
  • Not sure what to do with this book anymore. 16 Oct 2026
  • This is how I feel writing Rust lately. 15 Oct 2026

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  • Ankara’daki ilk Grok @Bot Meetup’i! Emre epeydir uğraşıyor bununla. Aynı zamanda @mustafaakin da geliyor. Kaçmaz. (ben malesef yokum, o haftasonu çoçuklara bir Bolu doğa gezisi sözüm var :)) 15 Oct 2026 English, from TurkishThe first Grok @Bot Meetup in Ankara! Emre has been working on this for a while. @mustafaakin is also coming. Don't miss it. (Unfortunately, I won't be there, I promised the kids a nature trip to Bolu that weekend :))
  • Really loving this book. Glad I picked it up. It’s hilarious. You’re reading everything from an android’s point of view. But the Android is malformed, so it acts on its own. But it likes to be left alone all the time and likes to watch movies. The thought process is just pure fun. Kind of like K-2SO from Star Wars Andor. “My clients are the best clients” 13 Oct 2026
  • Wow nice. Congrats @mdlayher @miller_joe and the team. As someone that had to use Azure at some point, I can assure this wasn't an easy task :) 13 Oct 2026
  • Finally, we’ve brought all our products together under a single subscription! If you’re using Grok @bot, code with @cursor_ai, and spending time on @X, it’s a no-brainer. Check it out: 13 Oct 2026
  • Saint Frank is really good. I would also put Paper Son higher up on the list. BB's Cappuccino is still my favorite though. I was subscribed to Verve when I was living in the Bay Area, so I have fond memories of it. 12 Oct 2026
  • Funny thing: a lot of us hardcore Vim users (Thorsten, myself, and a few others) were among the first to embrace agentic coding. You’d expect us to stick to the old ways, writing everything by hand in the terminal. But the opposite happened. I’ve used Vim since I was 17, for more than two decades. It gave me superpowers. It was hard to learn, but once it clicked, I could do things others couldn’t. I loved it because it made me faster and better at my craft, not because I was attached to writing every line of code myself. And Thorsten was one of the first people I knew who went all in on AI, b… 11 Oct 2026
  • For a long time, my son's desk was rattling because the right part got loosened and I need to ask the manufacturer for a replacement. So I thought, why don't I design it myself? I usually use Fusion for all my CAD projects. But this time I decided to do it differently. Here is how: 11 Oct 2026
  • Yeap. I've also updated my defaults a few weeks ago. I no longer queue messages at all. Every single message I write is steering the agent. The harness + model works excellently and I think it's the future. Give it a try. 11 Oct 2026
  • A lot of people are mentioning my watch. It's the Hamilton Khaki Field in 36mm. Fixed bars, 100m WR and has Crystal Glass. I love it, only con is that I wish it had smaller lugs. 10 Oct 2026
  • Today we went hiking with the kiddos in Aluçdağı National Park, near Ankara. Walked for about three hours, had a lot of fun, and made some coffee along the way. Pretty good day. Not a single token spent. Have kids. Go into debt if you have to. 10 Oct 2026
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  • Grab your custom Grok Bot email! You can use it everywhere, and you can use it to automate your @Bot whenever you receive an e-mail. 9 Oct 2026
  • Working on distributed systems, and the only thing that scares me is naming the first resources. They might outlive you. In a few years you'll either like the names or hate them, but you'll have no way to stop using them 😅 (cc @miller_joe) 9 Oct 2026
  • Do weekly retros with your agents. I started doing them every week, and it really helped me nailing down and adjusting how I work with agents. Create your own workflow, rather than just accepting what's out there. In @cursor_ai, you can ask your agent to download all the Agent Transcripts, connect to Slack and Notion MCPs and then ask this. Here is an example /retro skill. I shortened it for you, but again, it's something you should create: ==================== Look at the last 7 days of my agent transcripts, Slack messages and Notion pages, and tell me what repeats: how I phrase tasks, what… 9 Oct 2026
  • “Spoiler alert: TIN is back to being the fastest” 8 Oct 2026
  • I just saw a new listing for my dream car, and seriously thinking if I should pull the trigger. It’s too good to be true. But, at the same time, I’m not sure if it’s worth it 😅 Decisions decisions. 8 Oct 2026
  • Told you! Some people accused me of shilling just for the sake of it :) First, I have no reason to. Second, you have no idea how hard the team is working to make this happen. It’s genuinely a great product, and almost all my friends have become @bot converts. Give it a try if you haven’t already! 8 Oct 2026

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• GitHub github.com/fatih vim-go, color, structs and other Go tooling.

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  • color — Color package for Go (golang) 12 Oct 2026
  • dotfiles — My personal dotfiles 23 Sept 2026
  • vim-go — Go development plugin for Vim 23 Aug 2026

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  • kfmt — Format Kubernetes byte quantities for humans 5 Dec 2025
  • gomodifytags — Go tool to modify struct field tags 23 Apr 2025
  • errwrap — Go tool to wrap and fix errors with the new %w verb directive 7 Apr 2025
  • faillint — Report unwanted import path and declaration usages 5 Mar 2025
  • semgroup — Like errgroup/waitgroup, but only runs a maximum of tasks at any time. 3 Oct 2024
  • talks — My personal talk slides 17 Feb 2024
  • structtag — Parse and modify Go struct field tags 7 Sept 2023
  • starhook — Manage & Analyze repositories at scale 25 Mar 2023
  • vim-nginx — Nginx runtime files for Vim 23 Mar 2023
  • motion — Navigation and insight in Go 16 Feb 2023
  • kodla-talk-2022 — Code and slides for Kodla 2022 23 May 2022
  • twirpdemo — An example repository of using the Twirp RPC framework with Go 19 Nov 2021

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