keyboards
As you probably also do if you are reading this, I spend a lot of time typing. This means that a good keyboard (and layout) is important to me! I currently use the Dvorak left-hand keyboard layout (as I also did for a few years in my late teens and early twenties), which is much more comfortable for me as a one-handed typist than QWERTY. I also own a Keychron mechanical board, although honestly I do most of my typing on my MacBook Air.
Wiki
- : 🪴 keycaps: This page is talking specifically about keycaps for mechanical keyboards, because, well… there’s not much point …
- : 🪴 mechanical keyboards: Mechanical keyboards are a type of keyboard that uses “mechanical” switches (as opposed to, like, rubber …
- : 🪴 keyboard layouts: There are a multitude of different keyboard layouts in use today. The one that is by far most frequently encountered in …
- : 🪴 Dvorak: Dvorak is a keyboard layout designed to be much more efficient for typing than the traditional QWERTY. It was invented …
- : 🪴 Colemak: Colemak is a keyboard layout based heavily on QWERTY, but designed to improve upon it by moving the most-used letters to …
Posts
- : 🎹 Using Ukulele to Make Custom Keyboard Layouts: “So Jess,” you might say, “last week you procrastinated on your novel by recreating half your …
- : 🎹 Keybuild: An (Almost) One-Year Update: Almost a year ago, I wrote about how I used the iOS app Keybuild to make my own keyboard layout (or implement Dvorak …
- : 🎹 I configured Karabiner to better type curly quotes: As a follow-up to my last post, I can happily say that I fixed my Mac’s key combinations for curly quotes by …
- : 🎹 Curly Quotes on Mac Keyboards: I’m seriously kind of bugged by the positions of the curly quotes symbols on the Mac keyboard. Their positions …
- : 🎹 Micro post: It’s been about three months since I switched back to the Dvorak left-hand keyboard layout and this morning I went …
- : 🎹 Photo post: A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was waiting on new keycaps that would align properly even when I arranged them …
- : 🎹 Progress Update: Switching Back to Dvorak LH: A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how I used Keybuild to set my phone’s keyboard layout to Dvorak left-hand. I …
- : 🎹 Using the Dvorak LH Keyboard on iOS: Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I said sometimes I get an idea in my head and just cannot let it go? Well, my post …
- : 🎹 The Dvorak Left-Hand Keyboard Layout: As you may or may not know, I was born with a disability that gives me only limited use of my right hand. As such, I do …
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Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.