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Posts about custom mechanical keyboards and custom keyboard layouts.

cocot46plus keyboard with MT3 keycaps

cocot46plus: A Corne-like unibody keyboard with trackball and encoder

My split, ergonomic Corne keyboard is great. I love pairing with a trackball in-between the halves: But what if you took the two halves of this split keyboard, jammed them together with a built-in trackball and threw in some extra features? That's the cocot46plus. I prefer the ergonomics

Tips for organizing Sway keybindings

Tips for organizing Sway keybindings

Here's how I set up my keybindings for the Sway window manager for Linux. Most of the tips here would apply to any keyboard, but let's get one detail out of the way first that's specific to 40% keyboards like the Corne. It doesn&

Corne keyboard with trackball

markstos Corne 42-key layout

🔥If you are looking to buy a Corne, beware of the 4.0 and 4.1 PCB designs. They have a hardware bug that can result the keyboard connection cutting out sometimes due electromagnetic interference with certain phones placed nearby. Tracking issue is #265💡Update Feb, 2025: I've

Towards a better keyboard design

Towards a better keyboard design

Keyboard design has real-world consequences. Yesterday, I worked with half a dozen people across the country to locate and retrieve a misdelivered package. The issue traces back to keyboard design. A FedEx store employee had been handed a hand-written note with the delivery address: 1125 Main Street The employee quickly