Sep 26, 2017Tom Bihn Daylight Briefcase ReviewLet me introduce the newest member of my bag collection, the Tom Bihn Daylight Briefcase: classic, ultralight, minimalist briefcase for the urban dwellers. I purchased this briefcase because I wanted to have something that is lightweight yet durable — something I could carry with me in the city. Even though…Travel11 min readTravel11 min read
Sep 14, 2017The ultimate guide to writing a Go toolA while ago I’ve started to build a tool to make my life easier. It’s called: gomodifytags. It automatically fills the struct tag fields based on the field names. Let me show you an example: Having a tool like this makes it easy to manage multiple fields of a struct…Golang22 min readGolang22 min read
Jul 29, 2017A new homeI moved back to my own domain (arslan.io) with a clean and minimalist new design (it might change in the future, so don’t be surprised if you see something else than the screenshot above!). Some of you might ask why I’ve stopped writing on Medium? I wrote it on my new blog. I’ll be posting occasionally updates to my blog from here though. In meanwhile, see you all there 👋Blog1 min readBlog1 min read
Jul 23, 2017Minaal Daily Bag reviewIt’s time for another backpack review! This time I want to share my experiences and thoughts about using the Minaal Daily Bag. As some of you know, I use a bag extensively before writing down my thoughts on it. …Travel11 min readTravel11 min read
Mar 17, 2017Goruck GR1 (26L) Backpack ReviewI had many messenger bags in the past. When I started to travel more than I’ve imagined, I’ve realized messenger bags were not useful anymore. It was painful to carry all your stuff on a single shoulder with a single strap. I had to start carry something more comfortable and…Travel7 min readTravel7 min read
Jan 4, 2017Starting your Coffee journeyI’m a coffee geek. I really love coffee. Every single morning I have the same routine at home. The smell of good coffee is everywhere in our home. I frequently get a lot of questions about how to drink fresh and quality coffee. …Coffee6 min readCoffee6 min read
Mar 16, 2016Navigation between functions and types in vim-goI’ve introduced a new tool called motion in my previous post (I recommend to read it before you continue) and explained new features (such as text-objects) that are implemented on top of it. Text-objects are great to modify and change the function. But we also might want to move around…Vim4 min readVim4 min read
Mar 14, 2016Treating Go types as objects in VimVim users know that they can edit text in a very different way, with what we call as “text objects” or “text motions”. For example words are defined with the character “w” or paragraphs with “p”. Instead of selecting words manually and change them (or delete) you select “words” and…Vim4 min readVim4 min read
Nov 12, 2015My journey about implementing an HCL parser in pure GoOne of my new side projects was about a scanner/parser family written in pure Go for the Hashicorp Configuration Language. I had two reasons for it, the first one was to have fun and learn the internals of Go’s own parser family (go/{ast,token,scanner,parser}) and the second one was to have…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Oct 12, 2015A look at Go lexer/scanner packagesI’ve decided to create a lexer (a.k.a scanner) for an upcoming hobby project. Before creating the lexer, I wanted to see how a lexer can be implemented in Go. Also important for me was how to implement it with an idiomatic Go usage. …Golang9 min readGolang9 min read
