adamchalmers.com
Rust at Zoo (prev Cloudflare). Texan (prev Australian). Pynchon fan (prev illiterate).
Building a new programming language for CAD at zoo.dev. Love reading sci-fi, pre-20th century history. Blogging at adamchalmers.com
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bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Ear earbuds
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I really thought I would want more thumbkeys, but I tried home row mods, and I surprisingly really like them. I think if you use HRM you don't need many thumb keys. I have a thumbkey for space/tab/enter/bksp. Hold enter for layer 1. That's all I need. Esc and caps word are mapped to combos.
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I wish I could buy a trackpad that has a rotary encoder (dial to turn)
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Easily disabled or tweaked, it's fully programmable and addressable
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The other option I hear is good is the Glove 80, a lot of youtube reviewers really really love it. It has a lot more keys than I would use (I never use the F keys above the numbers for example) but apparently it's very comfortable.
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Sorry for the wall of text lol. You could also see if there's a keyboard meetup near you and try out several different ones there.
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There are cheaper options than ZSA's, e.g. keyboardhoarders.com. But imo, the extra $100 is worth it to get a much more solid typing experience. $100 for something you use all day every day is pretty good, and you can always resell ZSA's stuff, they will hold their value nicely.
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My layout was inspired by this article oppi.li/posts/progra..., but having both a number row above QWERTY, and an extra column on the far right/left of keyboard means my layout is much simpler.
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Anything smaller than a Voyager will IMO force you to go crazy with layers and take a looooooong time to get used to. I was surprised by how quickly I got used to home row mods, they both speed up typing and mean you don't need as many keys as you think.
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I've been surprised by how little I use the extra keys on the sofle. I think the Voyager has just enough keys. I use the sofle with just one extra layer (where I put symbols like {[\ that aren't on the number row), so it's relatively easy and fits easily into the Voyager with its fewer keys.
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OK! My suggestion would be either a moonlander (72 keys) or voyager (52 keys) from ZSA. I've been trying a cheaper Sofle split keyboard from Keyboard Hoarders and while it's fun, the Voyager is a _massive_ upgrade over it. I can type much faster and better on it. Many friends love their moonlanders.
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Roughly how fast do you currently type? And are you looking for a single-slab keyboard with a split/curve like the first img, or one with two separate halves like the second? Do you have a strong preference between tall keycaps (second img) or short (third img)?
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literally just finished setting up a new split keyboard and then read this. Haha. What are your priorities, what are your motivations?
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Sounds super interesting!
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interface design is my passion
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Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide 14 asm instructions and immediately leak all my private keys, its not clear what kind of program I was trying to compile]
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wait, GothamChess's real name is "Levy Rozman" -- I don't want to stereotype anyone but I suspect that Jewish GothamChess is just GothamChess.
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i'm telling the anarchists on you
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Tres chic or whatever they say there
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probably right
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OK you convinced me.
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Fucking lol
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Former
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He's doing even better now. Back to his normal self.
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yes home row mods are going well, why do you ask
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isn't "we" the landed gentry property-owning class, not the actual majority?