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That's really interesting. Hmm... it's too bad that there's no easy way to try out the keyboard and its unique switches before committing. But it's intriguing nonetheless. Can you …

I've built about 10 mechanical keyboards so far, including a bunch of split ergo ones and low profile variants too. From that, I know the layout matters a lot, as well as the switc…

That is a silly amount of detail that in many ways is what Apple design is known for.

Yeah, it's about how Windows has .msi installers, whereas for MacOS it's a .dmg where you copy the exec binary (which itself is a folder) into the /Applications folder.

Well, it's trying to emulate the now-deprecated Arc Browser, with a bunch of built-in functionality that's hard to get natively in Chrome. Arc's been degrading slowly over time, th…

I've been messing around with this as well, and there are a few good options now, if you're willing to self-host services: - calibre-web, as a pure web front end to the calibre db …

Some thoughts I had about how the ease of computing, along with the complexity of online accounts and setups are making it really difficult for the next generation to understand wh…

Careful consideration is losing out to parabolic progress.

Migrating my blog from WordPress → Ghost, made easier with a bit of Claude-assisted vibe scripting.

https://allenc.com/ -- My blog, mostly on eng. management topics plus other personal interests, occasionally submitted on HN.