keyboard

Almost two years ago, I listened to a podcast episode about custom keyboard layouts, such as Colemak, and building a custom keyboard with only 22 keys. It hit me at just the right time, and caused me to shortly afterward switch to Colemak (which I've happily been using since then, and wrote a post about here). Since then, I have been meaning to also build my own custom keyboard, and now I finally finished! This is a short recap on how I went about building the keyboard, as well as I configured it.

Although spending way too much time in front of the computer, I have always been bad at typing, being both slow and having to constantly look at the keyboard. When confronted about being slow, my response was always that it did not really matter, as most time spent programming is thinking about what to write, not the actual writing. But last year I started to waver.