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My keyboard journey and those who help me cope with obsession

keyboard-therapy's Introduction

Staff Engineer: Backend

About Me

My career has focused on building business applications on the web. I've been doing this more than two decades.

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My blog: peterlyons.com
- Nearly 200 articles since 2009!
Direct link to my resume
LinkedIn
Stack Overflow
- Wrote a lot of answers about node.js in the early days
@[email protected] on mastodon
Mostly left twitter behind but for 13 or so years I was @focusaurus

Open to Work!

I'm currently looking for a position. Feel free to reach out if you are highering.

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keyboard-therapy's Issues

Journal of Unorganized Grumps

I think our plastic switches, all of them, are like, crap. The community is obsessed with clickiness or whatever, but these are all still wiggly plastic crap and I don't like the feel of any of them. Typing on my macbook 2019 where I cleanly bottom out against a solid surface just feels way better to me.
My Model 01 is pretty great in terms of the key layout and build quality
I really want much lower travel though
I wonder how difficult it is to do a custom PCB layout. I basically want something like the Iris but with a thumb arc in the correct place

So I have some bookmarks gathered up of good resources, and I'll eventually link them in here, but https://keyboard.university is by far the best resource I've found. I'd like to contribute articles and edits but it seems to be a commercial project. Will ask them if there is a way to contribute.

Are there any low-profile silent switches on the market?

I'm using kailh choc reds at the moment and they make kind of a lot of noise especially on the release.

Help me choose a v4 keyboard

OK so this repo's readme outlines my thinking around what my v4 setup might look like. This issue is here for my keyboard therapist community to share advice.

keyboard size overlays

If you decide to stay with a 2d keyboard:

https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare/

QMK combos for one-shot modifiers

I'd love to be able to do home row combos (example, "eu" or left ring+index) trigger a one-shot modifier like OSM(MOD_LGUI). But according to the QMK docs combos only support simple keycodes.

Keeb Ecosystem Survey

Survey of Keyboard Software Ecosystem

Firmware Projects

QMK (Quantum Mechanical Keyboard)

https://qmk.fm/

Creates customized firmware images to power fancy keyboards with on-board microcontrollers
written in C
The de facto standard and vastly most popular tool in the keeb community
Vast tooling including CLIs, multiple web-based GUIs, docker images, etc