https://yildiz.dev/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Ali Oguzhan Yildiz Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 05 Apr 2024 01:20:23 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/packing-custom-fonts-for-nixos/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 01:20:23 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/packing-custom-fonts-for-nixos/ I have been using NixOS for a long time. And I am very happy with it. It is very stable and easy to configure. With NixOS, installing and configuring famous and open-source fonts is already very straightforward. Here is my font configuration in configuration.nix: fonts = { fontDir.enable = true; enableGhostscriptFonts = true; packages = with pkgs; [ cantarell-fonts hack-font inter jetbrains-mono liberation_ttf monaspace noto-fonts ubuntu_font_family (nerdfonts.override { fonts = [ "FiraCode" "DroidSansMono" "JetBrainsMono" ]; }) ]; }; Things get a little bit complicated when you want to use a custom or any commercial font that is not available in Nix packages. https://yildiz.dev/posts/dual-function-keys-on-nixos/ Sat, 05 Nov 2022 12:34:31 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/dual-function-keys-on-nixos/ Dual Function Keys is a plugin for Interception Tools. It is great for modifying keys. It allows you to configure a key for both holding and tapping actions. For example, you can configure the Caps Lock key to act as Escape when tapped and Control when held. I am using this plugin to modify my Shift keys. When tapped, they act as ( and ) respectively. When held, they act as Shift key. https://yildiz.dev/posts/show-missing-users-in-gnome-login-screen/ Sun, 07 Aug 2022 13:42:24 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/show-missing-users-in-gnome-login-screen/ When you install and configure the NixOS with Gnome from minimal image, it is possible that you will not see the existing user(s) in the login screen. It expects you to type your username and password. I know it is not a big deal. But, it is annoying. This is because the user you configured in your configuration.nix file, somehow, is identified as a system user. So, it is not shown in the login screen. https://yildiz.dev/posts/adjusting-chrome-scale-factor-on-ubuntu/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:21 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/adjusting-chrome-scale-factor-on-ubuntu/ If you are a using 4K monitor with your Full HD laptop, it is highly possible that you will end up having scaling problems at some point. Because Fractional Scaling is not a complete solution. Scaling to fractional values causes blurry renderings most of the time. So you have three options: 1 - Setting the external monitor resolution to 1920x1080 which is something I wouldn’t want to look at. Things got blurry most of the time. https://yildiz.dev/posts/a-modern-space-cadet-but-for-linux-md/ Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:20:45 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/a-modern-space-cadet-but-for-linux-md/ Motivation When I was using a Macbook, after reading Modern Space Cadet by Steve Losh in 2014, I decided to apply some of the suggestions from that article. I first tried the Caps Lock mapping. Which is basically caps lock is acting as a Control key when pressed with another key and Escape when pressed alone. I liked that. After one week or so, I tried another suggestion from the same article: Better Shifting which is way more fun and efficient than my previous attempt. https://yildiz.dev/posts/gnome-disable-tap-and-drag/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:55:28 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/gnome-disable-tap-and-drag/ There is a very annoying gesture which is enabled by default in Gnome: Tap and Drag It is being activated when you tap somewhere and move your finger a little on the touchpad. If the tapped unit is draggable, even if you move your finger a few millimeters, you start dragging that unit. This happens very frequently when it comes to browser tabs. Fortunately, it is easy to disable this gesture. https://yildiz.dev/posts/the-ultimate-migration/ Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:09:50 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/the-ultimate-migration/ Preliminary I am a software developer and I have been using Apple computers since 2012. 2012 is also when my professional career had started. It was always Macbook Pro but with different generations (2012, 2014, and 2015). I also have an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and an AirPods. I am saying this in advance so you can have an idea about how deeply coupled I’m into the Apple ecosystem. Once you go deep down that much, It is becoming much harder to break your chains. https://yildiz.dev/posts/a-glossary-for-javascript-world/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/a-glossary-for-javascript-world/ Javascript is growing (also evolving) fast. I mean very fast. There are tons of libraries, frameworks, compilers, bundlers or even several standards. https://yildiz.dev/posts/how-to-use-scrapy-with-django-application/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/how-to-use-scrapy-with-django-application/ There are a couple of articles on how to integrate Scrapy into a Django Application (or vice versa?). But most of them don’t cover a full complete example that includes triggering spiders from Django views. Since this is a web application, that must be our main goal. What do we need? Before we start, it is better to specify what we want and how we want it. Check this diagram: https://yildiz.dev/posts/lxd--assigning-static-ip-to-containers/ Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/lxd--assigning-static-ip-to-containers/ By default, lxd containers get random ip from lxd-bridge system. If you want to assign static IPs (i.e with some logical or arithmetic order), good news: It is quite simple. All we need to do is create a DNS configuration file and tell lxd to use it. There is a configuration file lxd-bridge under /etc/default/ directory. It is created when you first run lxd init command. It is something like this: https://yildiz.dev/posts/react-native-maps-with-google-directions-api/ Sat, 20 May 2017 00:00:00 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/react-native-maps-with-google-directions-api/ We have to use an external service to draw real world directions between two (or more) locations on the Map. For React Native, i ended up using both react native maps and Google Directions Api. We have to use an external service to draw real world directions between two (or more) locations on the Map. For React Native, i ended up using both react native maps and Google Directions Api. https://yildiz.dev/posts/hangi-programlama-dilini-ogrenmeliyim/ Fri, 05 May 2017 00:00:00 +0300 https://yildiz.dev/posts/hangi-programlama-dilini-ogrenmeliyim/ The language of this post is Turkish and the translation of the title is: Which programming language should I learn? Son güncelleme: Ekim 2020 Bir soru. Çevremde bir çok insan tarafından mütemadiyen sorulan bir soru. Soruyu soran şahıs farkında olmasa da, aslında bu soruyu sorarkenki asıl amacı spesifik olarak bir programlama dilini öğrenmek değil. Asıl öğrenmek istediği; Ben bu işi öğrenmek ve bu alanda çalışmak istiyorum. Nereden başlamalıyım? sorusunun cevabı. Evet;