Thank you! I think convex keycaps are very nice to have - even if just for the thumb cluster.

Thank you!

People and companies occasionally come back to the idea - there’s the recent Flux, Elgato’s macropad (and its numerous imitators), and who was it that was showing off a keyboard with mini-screens while using Dota 2 skill icons as an example

Another way to tackle this problem would be to have a little projector (maybe laser, ideally not) next to the keyboard to shine the labels onto the keys

I think that did materialize, but was rather underwhelming?

Thank you for your advice, and also Sofle looks neat - for a 58-key keyboard it doesn’t feel like it has sacrificed too much.

Ximi looks amusing - I guess this is the point where you need 3-4 layers to make proper use of it, but two trackballs are quite a treat. I do occasionally use a trackball as a scroll wheel ball in my existing setup.

That’s a neat keyboard - doesn’t have arrow keys, but their upcoming Defy keyboard has a rather impressive number of side keys and thumb keys. I’ll keep this in mind.

So what do people do with thumb clusters?

In my current setup, I have a little tool to have remapped RAlt act as a faux mod layer (so that I can quickly enter symbols like · — ➜ or have two-key shortcuts that don’t conflict with anything), but most of the objective improvement comes from good auto-completion, snippets, and editor features (e.g. multi-cursors can be a blessing to both edit a bunch of lines at once and to create N constructs out of a list of names/signatures).

I’ve seen this one, but I’d need to find a local sample to verify that I can use it - per post, I have non-too-strict typing habits and I’m afraid that an ortholinear[-ish] layout will be weeks-long despair with me missing keys.

For example, I already had a habit of holding my hands at an angle prior to using split keyboards, but this also meant that I was usually pressing Y key with my left index finger, which, on Sculpt, meant that I was now either typing a T or hitting my finger on the edge of the keyboard.

Thank you - I’ve been eyeing the various keeb.io models (Cepstrum / Quefrency / Sinc / KBO-5000), and is there more to be aware of beyond layout? Off-hand I can only tell that switches are hotswappable on all of these except KBO-5000, and that Quefrency / Sinc have an option for 3x1.25u / 2.25u / 1.25u on the bottom left row, which is nice.

And as for the squishies, that’s a delight