Protesilaos: Mechanical keyboards and ergonomics

Mechanical keyboards give you the power to be maximally opinionated about your keyboard configuration.

I have a new tenting setup for my split mechanical keyboard that works with magnetism.

Mechanical keyboards are tools that can improve the comfort of computer work: to have a setup that allows for sustainable long-term use.

This is a caricature of how I feel mechanical keyboard switches are being marketed these days.

[ I am not affiliated with any of the companies I mention and I am not providing any links just to be sure. ] I have been using the titular switches full time for the past ~3 weeks.

Anyone who has put some time in learning about mechanical keyboards understands how deep the rabbit hole is.

In almost one year of using mechanical keyboards, I have spent about half my time with tactile switches and the remainder with linear ones.

In the previous entry, I shared my first impressions of the cute MOA profile keycaps.

[ I am not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned herein and am not posting any links just to be sure. ] For a long time now, I have been meaning to try a uniform shaped profile keycap set.

In this ~25-minute video I explain the more subtle design choices that go into my split mechanical keyboard.

In this video I talk about how the split ergonomic keyboard I got earlier this year helped me partially recover from RSI.

I have been using tactile switches for most of my time with a mechanical keyboard.

[ I am not affiliated with any of the entities mentioned herein, so I am not providing any links to them.

As part of the research I did on ways to alleviate my keyboard-induced repetitive stress injury, I read about alternatives to the de facto standard Qwerty layout.

I spent the past two weeks using the MT3 profile by Drop+Matt3o on my Iris keyboard.

In a recent video, I talked about my RSI and keyboard ergonomics.

The keycap is the material that covers the mechanical switch.

The switch is the part of the keyboard hardware that sends the key press.