Karbon Based

Inspiration

Flow — Beautifully animated and quite moving, Flow was wonderful. Took the kiddos over the weekend and we loved it. The film is entirely without dialogue and yet succeeds to tell a moving story, and the animal behavior was captured perfectly. This is really a special film and I highly recommend it.
NORCO — “A Southern Gothic point & click narrative adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and verdant industrial swamps of a distorted South Louisiana.” Visually stunning.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — Spent a thoroughly enjoyable several hours muttering “it should be in a museum!” to myself while bashing in the skulls of fascists with brooms and candlesticks and anything else I could find, so, yeah, good game so far.
Pageboy — “Build a static site from plain HTML, no templating or command line required.” Tiny app that lives in your menubar and spins up a static website for you. This is a simple, great little tool.

Writing

We failed
newest

The great American experiment ends in a cloud of hate and fear. 2 minutes

Publishing with iPad
Writing Karbon Based from a portable screen. 12 minutes

Irreplaceable
Our children are the lens through which we watch time escape us. 4 minutes

Of all places
The universe isn't out to get you, and even if it is there isn't anything you can do about it. 8 minutes

A fresh start
Time is a luxury. And yet here I am writing words on a website. 2 minutes

Archived Custom Keyboard Builds on YouTube

Fox Lab Leaf 80%
Healios, SA Oblivion with Git Modifiers. My first custom TKL, and it feels terrific. 4 hours, 5 minutes

Rama Works M60-A
67g Zilents, Pulse SA R3 Rams. Probably the best group-buy hardware I've ever seen. 2 hours

Mekanisk Klippe
S-60X PCB, Holtites, BOX Navies. Don't think I'll ever use Holtites again. 3 hours, 30 minutes

Exent by TARO
67g Zilents. Worth the wait, even if it was a year late. 2 hours, 56 minutes

Koobaczech Pearl 40
67g Zilents. A beautiful little tank. Not the easiest to type on. 4 hours, 14 minutes

TINA-C by KBDfans
DZ60 PCB, Holy Panda switches. These switches have a helluva bump. 4 hours, 14 minutes

Karbon Based is the personal weblog and internet home of Garrett Murray.

Garrett is the Founder & Managing Director of Karbon, a mobile apps design and development agency. His current interests include mechanical keyboards, video games, technology and photography. He lives with his wife, two children, and three pets.

The opinions herein are his own, not an official position of Karbon or its clients. He will always strive to navigate this world ethically and morally, but understands the complexity of separating himself from his company when writing or communicating.