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  • USians Gone Rouge

    I do not envy anyone currently doing business in the USA or with US businesses.

    How do you cope with risk, knowing that the laws that should protect you do not apply?

  • Type better, not faster

    If you are learning to type, I would encourage you to focus on accuracy above speed.

    From my experience, in journey from measly 10WPM when touch typing to a very comfortable 92WPM, focusing on typing well, thinking – at first at least, about using correct finger, reaps the most benefit.

    Speed follows accuracy.

  • RGB is Lame 👎🏻

    Repeat after me:

    I do not need RGB in my keyboard. I am no longer 10y old.

    Ok, now that’s settled, please tell this to every keyboard manufacturer out there!

    Please.

  • Visual Studio Code – Sans AI

    Recent conversation on #HackerNews [1] make be aware of an interesting setting in the Visual Studio Code. Namely the chat.disableAIFeatures which allows to disable all AI features [2] of the editor.

    Not opposed to using AI assistance. I personally do use it as well. But I like to keep VSCode lighter and snappier for ad hoc editing as it is not my main IDE.

    [1] I switched from VSCode to Zed
    [2] Hide and disable GitHub Copilot AI features

  • Beyond Deploy: Episode 2

  • WordPress Federated posts formatting

    First snag with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress: It appears that even simple formatting, such as new lines, is being trimmed when viewed from #Mastodon.

    mastodon post

    Not sure if this is WordPress or Mastodon doing.

    Any advice?

    That was fast. Thanks to helpful community support of ActivityPub plugin, I got quick reply and solution to my formatting problem.

    TL;DR: Posts have to be published in Status format.

  • Tiny Keyboards Layout

    I was a huge fan of #Miryoku. It feels so ergonomic and logical that I “mastered” it in a matter of minutes.

    But Miryoku has a fatal flaw. Using Modifier + Letter/Number + Nav button is impossible without very custom mappings.

    I am trialling a slightly modified RSTA layout on a 3w6 #ergokeyboard starting. It does everything but feels less ergonomic.

    https://github.com/rstacruz/my_qmk_keymaps

    Pros:

    • No home-row mods;
      • fewer misfires.
    • So far every combination is reachable.

    Cons:

    • No Home Row Mods;
      • once you master Home Row Mods and learn to respect the delay, they become like pure magic, and you wonder how you could have lived without them.
    • Position of Ctrl, Enter and Backspace makes it a pinky heavy layout
      • this I will have to tweak as an appeal of smaller ergonomic keyboards is focus on thumbs, rather than on the pinky.

    The ergo-journey continues.