Holiday Reminder to Change Your Keyboard Layout and Self-Improve [video]

Holiday Reminder to Change Your Keyboard Layout and Self-Improve [video](youtube.com)

4 points by CanaryLayout 2 years ago | 3 comments

Some links (and more alt keyboard layout propaganda)

*Discord Servers* Alt Keyboard Layouts- <https://discord.gg/2qq8qmDtFf> Same but on matrix - <https://matrix.to/#/!iZdsjIZXWPXnohYGdD:matrix.org> Dvorak - <https://discord.gg/yHydf7FWTp> Colemak - <https://discord.gg/3VsHDG86hM> Monkeytype - <https://discord.gg/FcjrA7pBpG> Rus Keyboard Layouts - <https://discord.gg/QmAbR3tGpz> Babymak (not a joke) - <https://discord.gg/frtQHGrNwm>

CanaryLayout 2 years ago |

Oldie but a goodie. More people should check out Ben Vallack, who takes working ergonomics hacking to an extreme degree. He inspires lots of modifications that I make to my own work+keyboarding habits.

The extended vacation periods that people tend to take at the end of the year (and the start of New Years Resolutions) is a good reminder as any that you can take advantage of this time to improve your personal productivity by switching away from QWERTY to a new keyboard layout, as well as changing your keyboard switch type and physical board.

Is it time to learn how to use layers (and put those programming symbols under your faster fingers)? QMK/ZMK firmware perhaps? What about programming your keyboard for combos+macros to speed up your work?

A big reward in doing all this is, of course why else: comfort and the promotion of lazyness. Maybe a combo to pop up a terminal and reattach to a tmux sesh, or a digital dashboard or to tail -f a log that you have to stare at often?

Switching layouts to better ones that lower your hand stress allow you to type for far longer before feeling tension. There's also many more layouts than just Dvorak and Colemak. Canary is a very good high-rolling layout that feels butter-smooth and flowy when typing at high speeds.

eimrine 2 years ago | |

Dvorak and/or Dvorak for programmers is everything what you need if talking about keyboard layouts. Better to do it from childhood for not even exposing your muscle memory to the qwerty. If you do it not from your childhood then you are going to consider such shitty layouts as Colemak/Workman as something reasonable because of being a slave of your habits.