Keymap wizardry: Typing out the Harry Potter saga
Typing out all the Harry Potter books would be crazy, right? What would be the point? Seems like a weird flex even by keyboard enthusiast standards. Yep, that's right. Typing it out once makes no sense. That's why I'm going to type out the books a few million times! For the benefit of humanity and especially of you, fellow keymap wizards. This demonstration of the power of alternative/custom layouts is a shortened version of the original article at kbd.news. Given the huge extent of this topic, we can barely scratch the surface here so consider this write-up a mere teaser. Imagine you are an aspiring writer with a brilliant idea, just about to start typing out your magnum opus, staring at a yet empty document on your screen. Cursor blinking, annoying orphan relatives locked up in the cupboard under the stairs. Your story, about a young boy who ends up saving the world, is quite complete. You "just" have to type out heaps of your manuscripts and notes: about 6.5 million...
Jun 4, 2024
While I could probably go on for pages and pages more about all of the particular minutiae that help separate a single linear switch from the next one, this will have to stand as a pretty reasonable starting point for you to jump into your own explorations about linear switches. Regardless of what I tell you on paper, the best way to see all of these things for yourself (and to figure out if I’m actually crazy or not) is to test out a bunch of linear switches and see for yourself if you can see these differences. Can you tell linear switches apart based on their bottoming out feeling? What about their steepness and how their force changes under your fingers? Well, if you need any help looking into some switches of your own to test this out for yourself, consider some of my other articles here on Drop such as ‘Switch Marketing Terms: What to Know and What to Ignore’ or ‘Switch Myths That Aren’t Actually True!’.