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2 "id": "https://ryan.freumh.org/keyboard.html",
3 "title": "Keyboard",
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5 "updated": "2025-02-03T00:00:00",
6 "published": "2025-02-03T00:00:00",
7 "summary": "<div>\n \n <span>Published 3 Feb 2025.</span>\n \n \n </div>\n \n <div> Tags: <a href=\"/technology.html\" title=\"All pages tagged 'technology'.\">technology</a>. </div>\n \n \n\n <p><span>I developed RSI symptom’s at the tail of writing my\n<a href=\"papers.html#spatial-name-system\">masters project</a> and\nstarted looking for ways to work more ergonomically. As someone who’s\noften typing in one form or anther 8+ hours a day one obvious aspect to\nlook at was my keyboard. I’m using the <a href=\"https://www.zsa.io/moonlander\">ZSA Moonlander</a> as my daily\ndriver which I purchased with my PhD stipend machine budget. It’s an <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomic_keyboard\">ergonomic</a> <a href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ortholinear\">ortholinear</a> split\nmechanical keyboard.</span></p>\n<p><img src=\"images/moonlander.png\"></p>\n<p><span>The ortholinear layout has allowed me to learn how\nto <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing\">touch type</a>\n(I could just never get the hang of it on a normal keyboard). Using\nkeyboard-centric editors like <a href=\"vim.html\">Vim</a> and <a href=\"emacs.html\">Emacs</a>, as well as <a href=\"./firefox.html#tridactyl\">Firefox Tridactyl</a>, has helped my\nreduce mouse usage which had also proved aggravating.</span></p>\n<p><span>I was briefly looking at 3D-printing a custom\nkeyboard, like the <a href=\"https://github.com/joshreve/dactyl-keyboard\">Dactyl-ManuForm</a>,\nbut decided an off-the-shelf solution would give me most of the same\nbenefit for a lot less work. Another input method that looks interesting\nis the modern incarnation of the 90s <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand\">DataHand</a>, the <a href=\"https://svalboard.com/\">Svalboard</a>. This is a bit of a rabbit\nhole though, and I’ve got a setup I’m pretty happy with the\nmoonlander.</span></p>\n<p><span>The Moonlander uses the open-source <a href=\"https://qmk.fm/\">QMK Firmware</a>, and you can find my\nconfiguration <a href=\"https://github.com/RyanGibb/qmk_userspace/blob/main/keyboards/zsa/moonlander/keymaps/ryangibb/keymap.c\">here</a>.</span></p>",
8 "content": "<div>\n \n <span>Published 3 Feb 2025.</span>\n \n \n </div>\n \n <div> Tags: <a href=\"/technology.html\" title=\"All pages tagged 'technology'.\">technology</a>. </div>\n \n \n\n <p><span>I developed RSI symptom’s at the tail of writing my\n<a href=\"papers.html#spatial-name-system\">masters project</a> and\nstarted looking for ways to work more ergonomically. As someone who’s\noften typing in one form or anther 8+ hours a day one obvious aspect to\nlook at was my keyboard. I’m using the <a href=\"https://www.zsa.io/moonlander\">ZSA Moonlander</a> as my daily\ndriver which I purchased with my PhD stipend machine budget. It’s an <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomic_keyboard\">ergonomic</a> <a href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ortholinear\">ortholinear</a> split\nmechanical keyboard.</span></p>\n<p><img src=\"images/moonlander.png\"></p>\n<p><span>The ortholinear layout has allowed me to learn how\nto <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing\">touch type</a>\n(I could just never get the hang of it on a normal keyboard). Using\nkeyboard-centric editors like <a href=\"vim.html\">Vim</a> and <a href=\"emacs.html\">Emacs</a>, as well as <a href=\"./firefox.html#tridactyl\">Firefox Tridactyl</a>, has helped my\nreduce mouse usage which had also proved aggravating.</span></p>\n<p><span>I was briefly looking at 3D-printing a custom\nkeyboard, like the <a href=\"https://github.com/joshreve/dactyl-keyboard\">Dactyl-ManuForm</a>,\nbut decided an off-the-shelf solution would give me most of the same\nbenefit for a lot less work. Another input method that looks interesting\nis the modern incarnation of the 90s <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand\">DataHand</a>, the <a href=\"https://svalboard.com/\">Svalboard</a>. This is a bit of a rabbit\nhole though, and I’ve got a setup I’m pretty happy with the\nmoonlander.</span></p>\n<p><span>The Moonlander uses the open-source <a href=\"https://qmk.fm/\">QMK Firmware</a>, and you can find my\nconfiguration <a href=\"https://github.com/RyanGibb/qmk_userspace/blob/main/keyboards/zsa/moonlander/keymaps/ryangibb/keymap.c\">here</a>.</span></p>",
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