In 2013 for a brief moment in time you could purchase Clinton Reno's "I Want You To Hit Me As Hard As You Can". It went on sale for $30 and was sold out the same day. According to this Reddit post only 40 were ever made. The poster became a sort of obsession for... Continue Reading →
Poor Man’s Ambient Lightning Made Easy
I have always liked how Philips Ambilight looked but didn't want to replace my carefully selected gaming monitor just yet. The other after market solutions were too expensive and too clunky (a camera pointed at the screen? really?). Last time I checked (back in USA) there wasn't a good solution for this. A week ago,... Continue Reading →
New Domain – Irfmeister.com
When I started with İrfan's Adventures, I wanted to use it as a signal in the job market. IrfanKanat.com was just the right amount of boring for that. Now that I no longer care about professional signals, perhaps it's time to turn the blog into something more fun. Irfmeister.com should do it. Sing it to... Continue Reading →
My Recording Setup
Learning to record lecture videos using open source tools.
Building the Dactyl – Part 3 – Flashing
After the wiring came the software side of things. At first I was not very keen on using QMK. I wanted to just download a hex file and flash it on to the board and be done with it. That is difficult due to a few things. There are so many ways the keyboard can... Continue Reading →
Building the Dactyl – Part 2 – Wiring
After the upper case and key switches were put together I started wiring. I started by following the guide on dactyl git repository but the lack of updates and details quickly drove the project in to the ground. My original intention was to minimize learning and just to blindly follow the guides. That attitude got... Continue Reading →
Building the Dactyl – Part 1 – 3D printing
So my first project for this year is to get a Dactyl. In true open source spirit, the case is on thingiverse and there are already a dozen iterations of it. What I wanted was to have wrist-rests integrated to the main body. So I got the regular dactyl top and a modified bottom case,... Continue Reading →
Digging for Switches on an Old Keyboard
I am preparing to build a dactyl keyboard and for that I would need switches. Denmark being Denmark, it was hard to get mechanical switches for a reasonable price. I had to improvise a bit to get all the parts. Amazon.de had the switches but wouldn't deliver to Denmark, and the ones that did deliver... Continue Reading →
Matebook and Presentation Woes in Ubuntu
I am very happy with my matebook, and the screen resolution is a big part of it. One problem that became glaringly obvious recently was that in Ubuntu, I could not mirror displays. So here I am plugging my beautiful laptop to whatever third rate projector is lying about and I am stuck with extended... Continue Reading →