- Going too far from the mainstream pushes the cost up too high
- Let key do things that Emacs knows how to do well to leverage keyboard firmware
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Hello, Screenflow and Youtube
Tonight I set up a jingle for this blog on YouTube.
Fun and personal project.
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Looped the jingle to 5 minutes.
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Emacs Keyboard Design 34: Grid Layout Revisited
The latest iteration places space and return well and the modifiers are all present and easily reached. How would it look in a grid layout?
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Emacs Keyboard Design 33: What If Emacs Pinky Isn't Real
Emacs Pinky might be real.
What does a good Emacs keyboard look like if it isn’t, though?
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Potential Keyboard Builders Need a Switch Sampler
An Open Tenkeyless Keyboard
The K-TYPE Keyboard purports to be a truly open keyboard at the software and hardware level. Can’t wait for this to come out because I want a tenkeyless with an extra row on the top and an extra row on the bottom.
Chez Scheme Now Open Source
The other night I was daydreaming about buying a Chez Scheme license so I checked up on their license costs.
They are now Apache Licensed OSS.
Funny timing as they opened up only days prior.
The issue board is already active.
#chez on Freenode is blessed though the channel doesn’t seem to be up yet.
This is all delightful.
Emacs Keyboard Design 31 and 32: Give Emacs More Logical Modifiers
- Impossible to design and fabricate a custom for a reasonable price in time and money
- Use a XKE-128 instead
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How a Key Matrix Works
Here is a concise introduction to how a keyboard matrix works along with a demonstration of rollover and ghosting.
Emacs Keyboard Design 30: Smaller Modifiers
- After 3 years using single-key modifiers on a MBP and HP laptop I can do the same thing here.
- USB spec defines all
Fkeys so use them and see what happens - Get rid of right side of board in the process
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