Wisdom And Wonder

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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 F keys so use them and see what happens
Get rid of right side of board in the process

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Emacs Keyboard Design 29: More Standard

The right side keys should remain in ANSI layout
- Complies with POLA
- Returned them
Put CapsLock above Backspace
SpaceFn makes you want to use TMK’s awesome firmware
- Remind my self that POLA is still an important goal
How are people carrying their keyboards?
A good keyboard body negates needs for a case
- Dell keyboards are a perfect example
How similar is this to an ANSI layout
- Background color legend
  - Green: Identical
  - Yellow: Moved
  - Turquoise: New
  - Red: Removed
    - Only the number pad was removed

Thoughts
- Every Emacs user who has reconfigured their modifier keys on a Windows or Mac laptop will be OK with this
- Every user who has used an ANSI layout will be OK with this
- Users who value the number pad will not be OK with this
- The modifier clusters make sense