How good/bad is QWERTY? Seriously.
So in my previous write-up, while highlighting the benefits of alternative and custom layouts, I declared without much evidence that QWERTY is not that bad at all, and also that it is in the top 2% of all the possible layouts. Well, like so many times in life: it depends. I did my original research many years ago - the exact value was in fact 1.82% -, but I forgot to mention that this is only valid in a special case: using my personal corpus and ruleset. It makes sense since back in the day I did this to support the design process of my own custom keymaps. Anyway, it was high time to redo my original experiment, dive in this topic a bit deeper, and reveal the logic and method behind my calculations. Spoiler alert: I was wrong! Or was I? ;) QWERTY Everyone knows QWERTY I guess. Christopher Sholes, Remington 2 typewriter, preventing jamming of type bars, path dependence, whatever. I'm not going to cover it here, check this previous write-up of mine if you are interested...
Jul 1, 2024
Lofi hip hop radio - beats to create keycaps to. Maybe you’ve heard of the ArtKey Universe team but have you seen their creative process? In this video, one of the members shows a demonstration video around casting a medieval artisan set. They also have a popular Instagram page which you can find here. Highmerz
Is Teemo OP? This next video is from Highmerz where he casts a single Teemo artisan keycap. With this one-off keycap, he shows how he handpaints all the details of the keycap to a Teemo-based soundtrack. Talk about patience! His channel also has all sorts of other artisan creations that I might surface in the future. Matthew Han
This is a short and sweet video of Watthew Han creating a mold for a piggy artisan. While Matthew just started in the artisan making world, he just completed his first artisan group buy under the name Cosmo Caps on July 26, 2020! Hopefully we’ll see more from him in the future. All the best luck to Cosmo Caps! Like what you see here? Give these creators your support with a subscribe, follow, or a nice comment. Also, as this is a new series, feel free to provide feedback here. What did you like? What did you not like? And most importantly, if you have creators you want to be featured leave them here too!