{"id":33965,"date":"2021-01-26T19:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=9a0e5e6291d47cc4ea4694c0da9bd4a7"},"modified":"2021-01-26T19:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:23:57","slug":"split-keyboards-and-how-to-build-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=33965","title":{"rendered":"Split keyboards and how to build them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/diimdeep\/awesome-split-keyboards\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: I can't encourage people who spend a lot of time at a computer (...which is everyone these days) to be mindful, try things, and customize their computing environment enough. \r\n\r\nI have a rather large (...and kind of expensive) collection of input devices I've bought or built over the years, and while I don't regularly use many of them, I've learned things about how to interact with computers and use my hands from every single one, and do use a couple essentially every day. \r\n\r\nI _personally_ don't generally like modal (layered) keyboards for the same reasons I don't like modality in software (hidden state = cognitive load), and I don't love alternative layouts on standard keyboards for the same reasons I don't do super-botique software environments (you'll have to deal with qwerty and WIMP enough to keep it in your fingers anyway)... but I know people who are so settled in that I don't think another human being could operate their computers without extended instructions because they've built something that is so much an extension of themselves. \r\n\r\n...but I do really like my split keyboards (lately an UltraErgo Wireless and trackball (usually an Logitech M570) for not constantly re-contorting my wrists. Likewise, I have a VESA-arm mounted to the hutch of my desk to get a monitor positioned exactly where I want it without giving up any desk space.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25922698\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=33965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}