I opened this website sometime in 2018, and have only written 5 blog posts in 7 years. I never imagined I’d be writing frequently, but I gotta admit, I thought I’d hit one blog post per year. I guess the silence in the first six years hasn’t helped with that goal. As a fun fact, this isn’t even my first home. I started blogging all the way back in 2007, when WordPress was…
Smart Cube as it sits on my desk Time tracking software never really worked for me. Manual ones were a pain because I had to remember they existed, and that extra click or two just wasn’t intuitive enough for me to keep coming back. Automatic ones were also a pain because they often miscategorized activities, and in their attempts to be clever, they often introduced more work for me. 1
Almost a year ago, on the last day of 2023, I received my final gift of the year. As someone who uses keyboards over 10 hours a day, I had long wanted to try a better one. One I can use my arms wide open, one that feels better and is customizable to my liking. Not being a huge ergomech hobbyist 1 myself, but more of a trying-to-be-informed customer, I wanted to get that “end game”…
What is it? # It’s a touch-enabled LCD screen that shows me hardware metrics from my main PC, mainly the ones related to utilization and temperature. Currently its features are: Per-core CPU Utilization CPU Temperature (Max, Avg) GPU Utilization and Temperature (NVIDIA only) RAM Usage VRAM Usage Notification bar Date & Time Top three gauges are utilization percentages, and the bottom three…
A little backstory # It’s been 2 years since the last time I’ve written a blog post. In those two years, I have worked two full-time software jobs, learned a TON of new stuff, worked on a few side projects, and got married. 💍 In the meantime, I abandoned the previous blog I maintained since 2007. I couldn’t see the point of keeping a blog in Turkish anymore, and most of…