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My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup

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Re: My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup

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I work with the author at Nuon. He initially used a Kinesis like some coworkers, but refined it to a minimalist setup with an open-source Korne keyboard, that sits on top of his Macbook keyboard.

When I first saw it, he initially had rubber bands holding it down. Now it's on a secure plate with even a company-coordinated color scheme for the keys.

Interesting how his gaming experience led to a custom layer setup.

Re: My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup

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I work with the author at Nuon. He initially used a Kinesis like some coworkers, but refined it to a minimalist setup with an open-source Korne keyboard, that sits on top of his Macbook keyboard. When I first saw it, he initially had rubber bands holding it down. Now it's on a secure plate with even a company-coordinated color scheme for the keys. Interesting how his gaming experience led to a custom layer setup.

Your product might actually relevant for me, but browsing your website I gotta say it's quite the turnoff that there is nothing there on your company. I could not find out, within reasonable time, where you are incorporated.

Re: My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup

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disclaimer: I'm the ceo of this company.

What started as a joke a few years ago has actually turned into really good signal. I've found that the engineers who care enough to invest in keyboards like this spend a lot of time investing in their tooling and are extremely productive.

Causation or correlation?

Re: My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup

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post #5

For anyone looking into this who doesn't want to design their own layout from scratch, a well maintained layout for small keyboards is Miryoku. Worked very well for me (in qwerty base + vim directional keys mode) on a keyboardio atreus

I'm building a toucan (piantor style layout) and was thinking about using seniply layout, but this looks much better.

Re: My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup

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post #5

For anyone looking into this who doesn't want to design their own layout from scratch, a well maintained layout for small keyboards is Miryoku. Worked very well for me (in qwerty base + vim directional keys mode) on a keyboardio atreus

Miryoku is a solid layout. Designing your own layout is definitely time consuming, and not something most should try diving into if they are new to small form factor keyboards.

Re: My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup

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post #6

I work with the author at Nuon. He initially used a Kinesis like some coworkers, but refined it to a minimalist setup with an open-source Korne keyboard, that sits on top of his Macbook keyboard. When I first saw it, he initially had rubber bands holding it down. Now it's on a secure plate with even a company-coordinated color scheme for the keys. Interesting how his gaming experience led to a custom layer setup.

Your product might actually relevant for me, but browsing your website I gotta say it's quite the turnoff that there is nothing there on your company. I could not find out, within reasonable time, where you are incorporated.

That is quite good feedback, and I will make sure we get that addressed asap. Thank you.

FWIW, we're incorporated in delaware, and based in the US.

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