On designing finger-friendly interactions

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A lean, mean, split typing machine. The Voyager is everything you’d want in a serious ergonomic keyboard, and nothing more. The essentials, refined.

Almost what I need: 4 main rows, low-profile, attachable trackball or trackpad. Too few thumbs though...

Фестиваль эргономичных девайсов

Maltron has a better thumbcluster

Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.

I don't like this article, but the device itself is intersting.

A key remapping daemon for linux. Contribute to rvaiya/keyd development by creating an account on GitHub.

Not only that, but a good introduction to this device in general and the context around it. A good read!

Старый концепт Ильи про ультимативное решение фирасок и орасок.

TL;DR: yes but not much

Sophisticated Linux key remapper. Supports per-device and per-application settings. Wayland and X. I should look into this.

P.S. oh how poorly raindrop behaves! Titles, links, descriptions — all trimmed, for reader's inconvenience. They should've used Betula.

Static keyboard layouts are boring and predictable. Let's spice up the whole idea of keyboard layouts by having the layout CHANGE WHILE YOU ARE TYPING!

Оказывается, у некоторых мембранных клавиатур на мембране есть секретные клавиши для других регионов! То есть, у них есть скрытый потенциал. Дополнительные клавиши!! Обалдеть.

cute pixtures

cute pixtures

What are home row mods? What is a mod-tap? What settings do you need to use? What are the alternatives? And more in this article...

I should get back into keyboards. Did you know I used to make ergokeebs from foam/cardboard and the cheapest components? Regarding the article, I don't think home row mods are a good idea.

A funky keyboard with literal knobs and whistles. Comes with whopping 16 MB of on-board memory, which is thousand times more than on a Pro Micro.

hk allows temporary X11 hotkeys to be set

Minimizing your keyboard layout is a slippery slope.
34-keys has been reasonably comfortable to use, for both prose and program. My palms do not move across the desk at all, as I reach for keys. I mostly write Rust and Bash, and my layout has evolved to accomodate special characters from their grammars (angled brackets and hyphens, specifically). If you are on a similar journey, I would suggest focusing on accuracy and comfort over speed. Speed comes with time.

the #conlang nerd in me is so tickled that more than one person has designed and/or build #tokiPona keyboards 🤓

There is a non-zero chance that I may try to make a pi zero terminal or something to use with the discord and toiki.social at some point

The keyboard is cute! A symmetrical layout. 3 keys for fingers, except for the index, which has 6; 3 thumbs. Low profile.

Ortho33 is a constrained input system designed to work with a 3x3 ortholinear keypad, such as the one found on a standard numberpad.

however, after having access to all three for more than two months now, i've really struggled to find situations where having those phones (or some similar hardware with modern internals) was actually useful. i regularly found myself reaching for my smartphone after being tired of typing out a long message on the tiny hardware keys, my thumbs hurting from the amount of force i had to apply to press them. i typed slower (even though i was touch-typing), i had more typos, and the typing experience in general was just worse. not to mention that all of the 3 phones had very different keyboards with different key sizes, different actuation forces, and different layouts. they all sucked.

i think that trying to converge the laptop/desktop and the smartphone into one device is a bad idea. the two have very different use-cases, different ergonomics, and different security models. i think that the best way to go is to have a smartphone and a laptop, and use them both for what they're good at. i also think that more people should learn to write mobile apps, as most of my discussions on this topic have boiled down to "i want a linux phone because i can only write desktop apps", which is kinda sad in my opinion.

It took me a bit to figure this out, partly due to the fact of no really good explanation of it. So, I'm going to have a crack at it. Basically, I wanted to understand how keyboard matrices work. Specifically, I wanted to know why keyboard "ghosting" and "masking" happen, and how to prevent them.

All you need to know. That's a relic of the past century!

Something about configuring your puter with JavaScript.

Эргогавань — какая-то российская организация про клавиатуры. Надо разобраться

Transform ⇪CapsLock into a powerful modifier ✱ Hyper that miraculously increases your work productivity!

An arpeggio keyboard. Reminds me of Octodon.