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😁 I jumped into the unknown and bought a 36-key (Temper) split mechanical keyboard ⌨️

A dude from Poland builds them and ships them across Europe. I should get it soon 📦️

I'm doing some research on how to map the keys, the rabbit hole goes deep 🐇

🤩 This post is awesome: https://peterxjang.com/blog/designing-a-36-key-custom-keyboard-layout.html

This photo is from the seller, who sent me this before shipping 📸

#MechanicalKeyboards

😁 I jumped into the unknown and bought a 36-key (Temper) split mechanical keyboard ⌨️

A dude from Poland builds them and ships them across Europe. I should get it soon 📦️

I'm doing some research on how to map the keys, the rabbit hole goes deep 🐇

🤩 This post is awesome: https://peterxjang.com/blog/designing-a-36-key-custom-keyboard-layout.html

This photo is from the seller, who sent me this before shipping 📸

#MechanicalKeyboards

Cool concept, the $230 #OpenAI #Codex Micro. Couldn't resist giving #PolyKybd the same powers in under an hour. 😅
You can even read the agent status, no color guessing 😉
Cost: $0. No extra hardware, just firmware. #MechanicalKeyboards

Cool concept, the $230 #OpenAI #Codex Micro. Couldn't resist giving #PolyKybd the same powers in under an hour. 😅
You can even read the agent status, no color guessing 😉
Cost: $0. No extra hardware, just firmware. #MechanicalKeyboards

Forget “standard layout.” UHK doesn’t really do standard.

You can run it split or not split, fine-tune ergonomics with risers, swap modules, and redesign your thumb clusters around how you actually work—typing, gaming, or living inside macros and shortcuts.

Layer systems on top of that, and the keyboard turns into a fully programmable control surface instead of a fixed input device.

#UHK #mechanicalkeyboards #ergonomicsetup #customkeyboard #productivity

👋🏼 now it's easier to see what's left: https://mintlodica.com/collections/whats-left-closing-shop

i'd say it's bittersweet, but that would be a lie. super ready to be done. lmao

help me clear it out. 🙏🏻 esp if you know folks who'd like the light blue magic girl set.

#mechanicalkeyboards #artistsonmastodon

👋🏼 now it's easier to see what's left: https://mintlodica.com/collections/whats-left-closing-shop

i'd say it's bittersweet, but that would be a lie. super ready to be done. lmao

help me clear it out. 🙏🏻 esp if you know folks who'd like the light blue magic girl set.

#mechanicalkeyboards #artistsonmastodon

9 Best Keyboards (2025), Tested and Reviewed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-keyboards/

9 Best Keyboards (2025), Tested and Reviewed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-keyboards/

My one IRL #mechanicalkeyboards buddy went ahead and designed a truly custom keyboard. It's got gerber files and everything. Respect.

I can't go less than 6x4 keys per hand, but I do love the trackball under the thumb.

https://github.com/danbowles/klorball35

My one IRL #mechanicalkeyboards buddy went ahead and designed a truly custom keyboard. It's got gerber files and everything. Respect.

I can't go less than 6x4 keys per hand, but I do love the trackball under the thumb.

https://github.com/danbowles/klorball35

RE: https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/116790342839514246

Does anyone on here recognise these keycaps? They're very cute and I would be interested in getting some

#MechanicalKeyboards #FediHelp #boost4help

RE: https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/116790342839514246

Does anyone on here recognise these keycaps? They're very cute and I would be interested in getting some

#MechanicalKeyboards #FediHelp #boost4help

One of our favorite budget gaming keyboards drops back down to its lowest-ever price of $45 at Amazon — RK R65 packs lubed switches, metallic knob, and gasket mount for excellent sound and feel

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/mechanical-keyboards/one-of-our-favorite-budget-gaming-keyboards-drops-back-down-to-its-lowest-ever-price-of-usd45-at-amazon-rk-r65-packs-lubed-switches-metallic-knob-and-gasket-mount-for-excellent-sound-and-feel

I learned touch typing with the website monkeytype.¹

It's a nice website, but it's full of surveillance-capitalism crap, like Google's Firebase. Its developer is a twenty-something five years out of college. He started monkeytype in 2020 while still being in college, so I presume he doesn't know how to achieve his idea in a different way and maybe isn't even aware of the problems that using Google's technology entails.

Users can already be uniquely identified by their typing patterns.²

I am thus sceptic of storing extremely detailed information about my keystroke dynamics (like which letters I misspell the most, which of my fingers are strong and which are weak, how many milliseconds lie between certain bi-grams such as 'th', 'ng', 'he', 'lo', et cetera) in a database on Google's infrastructure.

Knowing Google, they might someday use that information to track me. So I don't want to give it to them in the first place.³ I don't think I'm overly paranoid here.

Has anyone already thought about this?

¹ https://monkeytype.com
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
³ I use monkeytype only while being logged out and blocking all Firebase-related network traffic.

#moneytype #TouchTyping #MechanicalKeyboards

I learned touch typing with the website monkeytype.¹

It's a nice website, but it's full of surveillance-capitalism crap, like Google's Firebase. Its developer is a twenty-something five years out of college. He started monkeytype in 2020 while still being in college, so I presume he doesn't know how to achieve his idea in a different way and maybe isn't even aware of the problems that using Google's technology entails.

Users can already be uniquely identified by their typing patterns.²

I am thus sceptic of storing extremely detailed information about my keystroke dynamics (like which letters I misspell the most, which of my fingers are strong and which are weak, how many milliseconds lie between certain bi-grams such as 'th', 'ng', 'he', 'lo', et cetera) in a database on Google's infrastructure.

Knowing Google, they might someday use that information to track me. So I don't want to give it to them in the first place.³ I don't think I'm overly paranoid here.

Has anyone already thought about this?

¹ https://monkeytype.com
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
³ I use monkeytype only while being logged out and blocking all Firebase-related network traffic.

#moneytype #TouchTyping #MechanicalKeyboards

I have genuine questions about mechanical keyboards

Would anyone be okay to answer them patiently?

🔁 boosts appreciated

#mechanicalKeyboard #mechanicalKeyboards #AskFedi

RE: https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/114670121574607975

What's the point of these #MechanicalKeyboards if I make an LLM write all my code? Typing on these is such a pleasure. I'm gonna stick to typing by myself, thank you. #AI

RE: https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/114670121574607975

What's the point of these #MechanicalKeyboards if I make an LLM write all my code? Typing on these is such a pleasure. I'm gonna stick to typing by myself, thank you. #AI

Logitech G512 X 98 Review: A Hybrid Mish-Mash

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/review/logitech-g512-x-98/

This is completely silly but it works #MechanicalKeyboards

New Beam Spring Keyboards

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/beam-spring-b104-keyboard/

#HackerNews #BeamSpringKeyboards #MechanicalKeyboards #TechGadgets #KeyboardEnthusiasts #ModelFKeyboards

New Beam Spring Keyboards

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/beam-spring-b104-keyboard/

#HackerNews #BeamSpringKeyboards #MechanicalKeyboards #TechGadgets #KeyboardEnthusiasts #ModelFKeyboards

Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition Review: Rock-Solid Typing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/review/keychron-k2-he-concrete-edition/

Been using the Flow Lite 100 for about a day now, coming from a full mechanical keyboard, and apart from the layout being a bit different to what I'm used to, typing on this thing is just insanely nice.

It's this really nice midpoint between a mechanical keyboard and laptop keyboard (both experiences I like in different ways).

One thing I didn't realise I'd appreciate this much is that it's got more of a "creamy" click, which is really nice!

#Keyboards #MechanicalKeyboards

Been using the Flow Lite 100 for about a day now, coming from a full mechanical keyboard, and apart from the layout being a bit different to what I'm used to, typing on this thing is just insanely nice.

It's this really nice midpoint between a mechanical keyboard and laptop keyboard (both experiences I like in different ways).

One thing I didn't realise I'd appreciate this much is that it's got more of a "creamy" click, which is really nice!

#Keyboards #MechanicalKeyboards

Switching to a split keyboard isn’t instant for most people.

But when it does click… it really clicks, and there's no going back. ⌨️✨

What was your experience like? Was it instant comfort or a slow transition?

#UHK #splitkeyboard #ergonomics #mechanicalkeyboards #typingexperience

Switching to a split keyboard isn’t instant for most people.

But when it does click… it really clicks, and there's no going back. ⌨️✨

What was your experience like? Was it instant comfort or a slow transition?

#UHK #splitkeyboard #ergonomics #mechanicalkeyboards #typingexperience

ordered a #corne keyboard from mechboards. will update on arrival and the barebones assembly.
#ErgomechKeyboards #mechanicalkeyboards

#Question for all you #MechanicalKeyboards aficionados out there: #QWERTY or #Colemak Mod-DH?

Situation: my 10yo kid will begin mid-school in September and wants my #ErgoDash (see picture) for his own computer (that I still have to buy!).
ErgoDash is currently configured with a QWERTY layout, customized with Italian accented letters as per picture.
Should I reconfigure it to Colemak Mod-DH, instead, before giving him the keeb?

#Question for all you #MechanicalKeyboards aficionados out there: #QWERTY or #Colemak Mod-DH?

Situation: my 10yo kid will begin mid-school in September and wants my #ErgoDash (see picture) for his own computer (that I still have to buy!).
ErgoDash is currently configured with a QWERTY layout, customized with Italian accented letters as per picture.
Should I reconfigure it to Colemak Mod-DH, instead, before giving him the keeb?

The first picture shows my daily keyboard. It was done as temporary and serves me for over a year. But slowly dies.

The second picture is a WIP layout for the new one. Still will be cheap, but with PCB, hotswap switches and case. There will be encoder in top right corner.

Have to think what else to change in it. Suggestions anyone?

#HrwKeys #mechanicalkeyboards

The first picture shows my daily keyboard. It was done as temporary and serves me for over a year. But slowly dies.

The second picture is a WIP layout for the new one. Still will be cheap, but with PCB, hotswap switches and case. There will be encoder in top right corner.

Have to think what else to change in it. Suggestions anyone?

#HrwKeys #mechanicalkeyboards

I should curtail looking at this website before I drink my ☕️ in the AM.

https://www.asymplex.xyz/category/low-profile-artisans

#MechanicalKeyboards #Keycaps

I should curtail looking at this website before I drink my ☕️ in the AM.

https://www.asymplex.xyz/category/low-profile-artisans

#MechanicalKeyboards #Keycaps