Cool, I almost got the same one but went with a leopold 660m, also 60%. I just have caps lock mapped to backspace and use vim for everything I can (checkout cVim for chrome) tried colmak out today but will stick with qwerty since I'm 100% at 100 wpm touch typing.
I just looked at cVim and it’s definitely interesting. I’m currently a user of Vimium. Have you tried both, by chance? Curious about a comparison
Vimium didn't work consistently when I tried it, where cVim did. I used to use VimFx on Firefox but it was abandoned. I like the way cVim does its follow tooltips.
I just looked at cVim and it’s definitely interesting. I’m currently a user of Vimium. Have you tried both, by chance? Curious about a comparison
Vimium didn't work consistently when I tried it, where cVim did. I used to use VimFx on Firefox but it was abandoned. I like the way cVim does its follow tooltips.
Thanks! On FF Tridactyl is maintained. Vimium search bar dies in my FF because of number of tabs, so I have to use the native. Went to tridactyl recently and seems to be working better.
Before I switched to Dvorak, I had RSI problems. I still have RSI problems, but they are much less severe and much less frequent. The difference is stark. It makes a huge difference in quality of life for me. I have also tried alternative keyboards, like the Kinesis and the Ergodox, but switching to Dvorak seems to have had the largest impact. > Learning a new layout is one of the most frustrating experiences that I’…
What's your take on the Kinesis Advantage vs Ergodox EZ? I'm currently debating between the two.
I prefer the Ergodox because it takes less space than the Kinesis. Never used the EZ in particular. I spend most of my time with regular 80% keyboards or laptops.
As someone else who learned and still uses Colemak... it's just not worth it in the long-term unless you're using it to address something specific like chronic RSI. QWERTY does return to you, sort of, but only if you still actively use it in some other contexts. If you don't use it regularly, you'll lose proficiency in it and not really be able to easily switch between the two (though in my own experience I did retai…
I sort of agree, but I think it's better to prevent RSI than to manage it.
yeah my goal is to live a long and happy life of hacking and coding. My health is more important than being able to type a search into bob's computer without looking at the keyboard. But I was having a LOT of wrist pain.
This is exactly the reason I don't have a heavily personalized environment anymore. Copying it around to every machine was more hassle than it was worth. This is also why I get so mad when the defaults are bad, especially when they're changed to be bad. A good example is how ls now adds fake quote characters if your file listing has spaces in it. As someone who mastered the Tab key ages ago those quotes are useless v…
If you're mostly on Linux/Mac I can strongly recommend using a dotfiles repository containing all of your config files and a script that you can run to create symlinks to all of these files in the correct places. With small tweaks like a non-symlinked file that contains only machine local variables (I call mine .bashrc.local and source it from the main bashrc), you can evem make the configs vary across machines on th…
This kind of scheme goes to hell once you're bouncing between networks unfortunately. Especially when you're on completely disconnected machines half of the time.
If you're considering learning Dvorak, I'd strongly recommend considering Colemak instead. I tried Dvorak with the hope that it would mitigate RSI, but it spreads the work among fingers pretty unevenly -- I really ended up just moving the problem rather than fixing it (mostly to my right pinky). Colemak is (relatively) easy to learn if you know QWERTY, and it's been life-changing for me: I can work for more hours of…
I second this - as someone who learned Qwerty as most Americans do, then learned about alternative keyboard layouts and ended up learning Dvorak, then finally settled on Colemak. In each of them I was able to type 120+wpm, and 140wpm+ in Qwerty and Colemak, so I consider myself a proficient typist. Dvorak offered no benefit to me. I firmly believe that any differences or gain that people attribute to Dvorak is attrib…
Really interesting. It's much less difference, but I use QWERTZ at home and QWERTY on my laptops, and I don't have context switching period, but it's tied to the laptop. I don't even have to think about it - when I use my Logitech keyboard I write with the German layout and on Lenovo keyboards I write with us-intl. It's not a problem - unless someone gives me a Lenovo with QWERTZ - then I mistype everything.
I can only imagine how much worse it would be with dvorak or colemak...
I second this - as someone who learned Qwerty as most Americans do, then learned about alternative keyboard layouts and ended up learning Dvorak, then finally settled on Colemak. In each of them I was able to type 120+wpm, and 140wpm+ in Qwerty and Colemak, so I consider myself a proficient typist. Dvorak offered no benefit to me. I firmly believe that any differences or gain that people attribute to Dvorak is attrib…
Really interesting. It's much less difference, but I use QWERTZ at home and QWERTY on my laptops, and I don't have context switching period, but it's tied to the laptop. I don't even have to think about it - when I use my Logitech keyboard I write with the German layout and on Lenovo keyboards I write with us-intl. It's not a problem - unless someone gives me a Lenovo with QWERTZ - then I mistype everything . I can o…
I use the same keyboard at work and at home - a DAS Model S with unmarked keycaps. Maybe that contributes to the brain confusion - but I like the keyboard too much to try and type using two different keyboards.
QWERTY is just bad design -- it's not something you'd ever design today. You'd never put ";" right under your finger, and relegate "e" from the home row. I switched to Dvorak in graduate school and it was super-worth it. It took less than 2 months to get comfortable (and I can still switch between the two layouts in 15-ish seconds of conscious attention). Here's a nice way to think of it -- will you be alive for long…
QWERTY is not badly designed. It's design goals were to minimise the likelihood of the keys of manual typewriters from jamming when typing in English, thus maximising the typist's productivity.
At worst, you can say QWERTY is antiquated. The conditions it was designed for no longer exist.
If you worry about RSI, use speech recognition whenever you write emails or comments. There is even a trick to use it on Linux if you're interested (not the crappy sphinx/kaldi).
> there is even a trick to use it on Linux (not the crappy sphinx/kaldi) What do you mean? What are you using?