s/keyboards
A space to talk about keyboards, layouts, etc.
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Kenkyo 1.0.0-rc.2 is out with significant improvements — I have made significant changes to my layered, alpha-agnostic keyboard layout. The highlights are: The extend layer is now bound to holding the spacebar, making it more prominent, reducing pinky strain by not having to hold the caps-lock key anymore and the normalization of home and bottom row modifiers across layers. The fumbol layer can now be anchored to the spacebar via a layer switch within the extend layer and, more importantly, it...
💬 4 comments · 2025-03-11 · 1 year ago
Chordal Hold for better Home Row Modifiers in QMK — I have been following a pull request that seems to significantly improve the reliability of home row modifiers for QMK users. I hope it's available in VIAL's port of QMK soon too. I thought I'd share in case there are some QMK users around.
💬 2 comments · 2025-01-28 · 1 year ago
The keyboards rabbit hole — Many of us went down new rabbit holes during and after the pandemic (Gemini, cough, cough...). For me one of them was keyboards. I just wanted to share how, after almost 30 years, I significantly changed how I use them and what I expect from them. I believe it was the agressive influencer marketing around mechanical keyboards that got me thinking first. Thinking why they were unnecessary that is. I had been using membrane keyboard forever and I was doing just fine...
💬 11 comments · 2 likes · 2025-01-21 · 1 year ago · #keyboards
Note that there is also: /s/mechanical-keyboards
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2025-01-16 · 1 year ago
Kenkyo: a layered keyboard layout for the rest of us. — I would like to share with the Geminispace a small project that has kept me excited over the last year: [https link] Thanks to software customisation software like keyd and kanata, we can have custom layers on any keyboard as well as other interesting tools to augment the capabilities of our keyboards.
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2025-01-07 · 1 year ago