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was originally part of the supposedly last write-up on this site’s particular Planck keyboard layout.

is the ongoing evolution of the Planck layers.

integrating XMPP instant messaging with WeeChat is available through community plugins, notably the jabber.py plugin.

where Colemak emphasizes finger rolls, AdNW models keyboard layouts to emphasize hand alternation, a la Dvorak.

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production SOFT/HRUF keyboard layout.. comprised of layers.. legend base layer blue layer orange layer green layer numlock layer stenography layer dvorak layout base layer.. blue layer..

defining the PERMISSIVE_HOLD and IGNORE_MOD_TAP_INTERRUPT config.h options enables applying responsive modifiers to the home row, for vastly improved accessibility.

my new daily driver applying the Planck BEAKL layout to the SOFT/HRUF Splitography keyboard— though, this design should be effective with any keyboard layout. legend splitography beakl I have since reverted to the BEAKL 8+10 mashup layout to favour the fi…

mashes up the BEAKL mu layout further by applying the HIEA home row of BEAKL EZ to the left hand, thus, resolving the UAI same finger issue of BEAKL 8 in favour of finger rolls.

symbols in layout BEAKL mu are accessed via the index, middle and ring fingers of the thumb shift side hand.

layouts with home row modifiers, latency issues aside, confirmed one thing: thumbs shift and switch layers with the least effort and pour moi, at least, feel more natural doing so.

the HIEA home row of the split thumbs up layout featured nice finger rolls and low same finger usage.

exploring thumb keys further, by applying thumb I (swapping thumb H with ring finger I).. shaves 1% to 4% off the +Effort scale across the board— despite the HY same finger bump—against the Thumb H layout on klatest for English prose.

the Thumb I or BEAKL Ti (titanium :-) layout advances BEAKL Mu’s left hand fingering by replacing the universal thumb key Space assignment with the alphabetic character I to lower same finger usage and improve finger roll combinations for the left hand.

restores the Enter key to the base layer with a swap of the Backspace key from the Shift Layer of the BEAKL Ti layout, resulting in simplified Enter chords throughout the keyboard design.

it didn’t take long.

the keyboard layouts for the Splitography and the Planck on this site, applied certain personal thumb conventions—noticeably, the Shift modifier, the Space Enter Backspace Delete Tab Escape keys, and raising the various Symbol Number Fn Cursor layers.

foregoing steno, a dedicated BEAKL Si layout can be applied to an ergo keyboard design with non-linear rows.

from concept to implementation.. with Cherry Silent Reds and SA Profile R2, R3, R4 keycaps, and SA R1 thumb keys. impressions as expected, the ergonomic key placement (versus straight rows) actually felt unnatural at first.

many convenient modifier macros for redefining keys as dual function key values and modifiers, notably the SFT_T, CTL_T, ALT_T and GUI_T toggle macros are part of the standard QMK firmware library.

Split keyboards have been my daily driver for awhile now so the Planck hasn’t seen a whole lot of love on this site of late.

the original implementation of rolling QMK modifiers only allowed proper case words with leading capitalization during rapid finger rolls.

until now, Punctuation chords providing leader (Space / Enter) capitalization shortcuts, lengthened the hold of the punctuation key which adds a subtle disruption to the typing rhythm— much like traditional shifting.

the statement design of QClockTwo was popularized on Linux desktops with mowgli-writes conky port. i adapted this as a screensaver with an opaque black background (and the much better looking Noto Sans Mono font which produces a squared presentation), cen…

over the course of time, two rolling key corner cases surfaced from the QMK rabbit hole descended in the (highly personal) tuning of the BEAKL Pi keyboard behaviour.. rolling thumb keys rolling sequences leading with the I or Space may not register as des…

is a subtle variant of the BEAKL Zi configuration.. shift punctuation providing alternate fingering by moving the Question and Exclamation marks from the thumb Symbol Layer to the Base Layer Shift Dot and Comma key positions..

contrary to most vim (editor) colorschemes which emphasize syntax highlighting, vim-colors-duochrome is a minimalistic dual monochromatic vim colorscheme born out a distraction free writing preference.

after the most recent fixes to the BEAKL Pi layout, the new navigation layer.. stood out for its natural thumb Enter (select) position after navigating menus—a common workflow activity on a keyboard driven desktop configuration.

my distraction free colorscheme search ended with vim-colors-duochrome and had become the only vim colorscheme i use for coding and writing.

with the unavailability of the Chimera Ergo 42 the past several months, i came across the Corne keyboard in the hunt to build another keyboard.

the Coronavirus had just been a serious news event that erupted shortly before i completed my first Corne keyboard build.

covid-19 has seen a lot of our time on computers increase substantially in place of personal social contact.

with Covid-19 time on my hands, i thought i would revisit rolling modifiers. since implementing my own mod_roll() library to handle rolling modifiers in place of the QMK mod_T() macros (SFT_T, ALT_T, CTL_T, GUI_T) due to issues arising from rapid finger r…

i stumbled upon a keyboard analyzer app which took an interesting approach to testing layouts via a bigram corpus.

i am a massive consumer of syndicated web feeds.

there are a number of keyboard layout analysers, some web based, some desktop applications.

it didn’t take long!

or shortie pinkie Wi. i came across this keyboard design some time ago which had a distinctively heavier pinkie finger stagger than is commonly found.

BEAKL Wi saw the first changes to the Number Layer after a long history of BEAKL iterations, with the placement of the numbers in their order of frequency—by finger row and column priority.

the current keyboard layout daily driver is BEAKL Wi**.

it has just been a couple days since completing a facelift to the Number Layer to facilitate upper and lower case hexadecimal and Square, Round and Curly Bracket input.

the main BEAKL development test bed platform for the past two years has been the Chimera Ergo 42 and Corne 42 key keyboards.

in the time of Covid-19, there has been a lot of time for contemplation and reading.

iosevka is hands down my favourite monospaced font for programming, writing, desktop.. everything in my day to day computer workflow.

keyboard and how i have become a chording engine convert.

and how i have been won over by a 30% keyboard.

in case anyone else gets the chording engine bug, this is another example of the M() macro for DennyTom’s chording engine adding some dynamic features to the left hand hexpad of the.. number layer toggle action Postfix G -> “ “ Caps Upper case HEX (retogg…

waiting on 15g springs for the Splitography, porting the chorded home row layout to it was inevitable as i further explore this minimal finger travel layout approach and the power of DennyTom’s chording engine.

for this site was originally inspired by a wiki based web app called Nanoki written in Lua, a scripting language I had been investigating at the time.

smartphones have become ubiquitous, penetrating the lives of everyone within the reach of cell towers.