Last week, I embarked on a quest to make my life more difficult—learning the Dvorak keyboard layout for the purposes of comfort and, possibly, even speed gains. The exercise could pay long-term ...

I’ve always been a full-keyboard kind of guy. Not to the point of using macros, but I’ve been religious about the full 104-key layout with a numpad, in hindsight, out of a purist’s mentality. But I’ve ...

The world of mechanical keyboards is a wonderfully deep rabbit hole, filled with a myriad of switches, keycaps, and an ever-evolving landscape of experimental layouts created by hobbyists chasing the ...

My Dvorak keyboard layout experiment has come to an end. I received hundreds of comments across the three-part series and many more e-mails and tweets from interested or concerned readers. As promised ...

After giving it some thought, I decided to ditch my number pad computer keyboard for good (and I don't regret my decision in ...

Ever since my RSI surgery, I’ve had to resort to using what I call my compromise keyboard — a wireless rubber dome affair with a gentle curvature to the keys. It’s far from perfect, but it has allowed ...

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