Xah Keyboard Blog

Update Highlights

• Svalboard (Datahand)
• UHK 80

• Keyboard Key Switch Guide
• Glove80 vs Kinesis 360
• 🆕 Xah Talk Show on Keyboard (videos)

raycast app launcher

• https://www.raycast.com/
• Raycast (software)

2026-06-04 They use the key icon ✦ for Hyper key. Thanks to Mathieu.

• Xah Talk Show 2026-05-26 Ep786. x chord keyboard, lisp keyboard, c vs cpp vs rust

• AI Xah Keyboard (2026)
• Xah's X No Chord Keyboard

• Logitech keyboards stopped using the Microsoft Windows logo

• Atlas56 Keyboard

• Mac: How to Input Math Symbols or Emoji

• Apple Keyboard Key Symbols ⌘ ⌥

• Design of Input System for Math Symbols

• Print Screen Key on Microsoft Windows (2018)
• Print Screen, SysRq, ScrLk, Pause, Break Keys

• Keyboard Shortcut Tutorial

• Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts

• Dual-Function Keys and Home Row Mods

• Keyboard Shortcut Design: Ban Key Combination
• Function Key vs Modifier Key Combination, Which is Healthier, Faster?
• On the Terminology of Key Chord vs Key Combo

• Arrow Keys. vim HJKL vs Inverted T

• Keyboard Design Flaws

• MSI Vigor GK30 keyboard

• QWERTZ Layout

• MSI Codex Z ASI-018US Gaming Desktop 2021 (Xah Gaming Machine)

• Water Resistant Keyboard from China (2016)

• Keyboard and Typing Speed

• Typing Habits, Hand Health. Index

• Monkey Type Speed Typing Easy Words (2024)

old articles

• The Happy Hacking Keyboard.
• Most elite keyboard from 1990s to about 2015.
• Happy Hacking Keyboard

• Computer Keyboards (2006)

• Apple Keyboard Problems (2006)

• Keyboard: Alice Layout

• Speed Typing on Multiple Layouts (QWERTY, Dvorak, Colemak)

• Nulea M512 Trackball
• now there's a purple one.
• amazing china cheapo, they are really taking over.
• half the price of premium brands.
• works well.

• AutoHotkey: Toggle Maximize Window

• User Interface Design: Ban Mouse Drag
• Keyboard Shortcut Design: Ban Key Combination
• Keyboard Design: Ban Shift Key

old. history. put some into a new page.

• Logitech Gaming Keyboards
• 🆕 Logitech G510 (2013)
• 🆕 Logitech G110 (2009)

• Windows: Keyboard Shortcut to Launch as Admin in Windows Start Menu
• Windows: Keyboard Shortcuts Tutorial

• Set Microsoft Windows Chinese Pinyin to Use Dvorak Layout

• Worn Keyboards

• L-Trac Trackball

• Best Ergonomic Keyboards, Xah Pick

• Programable Keyboards with Onboard Memory

• Corsair K60 Keyboard (2011)

major update, the v2

• AutoHotkey Tutorial

• Keyboard Fun

• Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts

• Huion H640P Drawing Tablet
• Huion HS611 Drawing Tablet

• Efficiency: Mouse vs Trackpad vs Touchpad vs Joystick vs Pen Input

• Mouse vs Keyboard: Is Mouse Bad for Programer?

• Microsoft Surface Pro 4, 2015

• Drawing Tablet
• Pen Input Devices

• Xah Battle Station ⌨
• Xah. My Keyboard and Mouse Usage History

• Best Ergonomic Keyboards, Xah Pick

• Hot-Swappable Key-Switch Socket

• Key Label Printing Tech
• Why Not Blank Keycaps

• UHK 80

• Worn Keyboards

• Xah Talk Show 2025-10-20 Ep704 Ultimate Hacking Keyboard UHK 80 unboxing
• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard 80 (UHK 80)

• Keycap Material: ABS, PBT, PVC, POM
• Key Label Printing Tech
• Cute Keycaps

• Windows: Keyboard Shortcuts

• History of Meta Key

• LINC keyboard. 1962

• Emacs Keyboard History

• RSTLNE layout

• Xah Talk Show 2025-09-21 Ep703 Wolfram Language, Cantor Dust, Sierpinski Triangle, Menger Sponge, Voronoi Diagram (and Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, Glove80, Kinesis 360, Xbows)

• Xah Talk Show 2024-09-05 Ep583, Svalboard Datahand Exploration

• Beats Solo3 Wireless On-Ear Headphones

• Apple Extended Keyboard M0115, 1987

• Keyboard Technology, It's Hack All the Way

• Scientology Incomm Keyboard

• Canon Keypad Mouse. (2009)

• Ploopy Trackball

• Apple Macintosh Keyboard M0110, Year 1984
• Macintosh Plus Keyboard M0110A, 1986
• Brick Heavy Modern M0110 Keyboard

• Linux vs Mac vs Windows, Which is Best for Keybinding?

• Fifine K669B USB Microphone

• Buying Microphone

• Keybinding Design is a Linear Programing Problem
• Emacs vs vim, Compute Keybinding Efficiency

• Nulea M512 Trackball
• Slimblade Trackball
• Nulea M505 Trackball

• Heartbeat Watch

• Typing Braille

• Windows: Windows Logo Key Shortcuts
• Windows: Keyboard Shortcuts

• Set Microsoft Windows Chinese Pinyin to Use Dvorak Layout

• Datadesk Smartboard Keyboard

• Key layout with lower case parens and backspace on left
• 2025-03-22
• By Jeremy Bryant.
• https://onlisp.co.uk/Key-layout-with-lower-case-parens-and-backspace-on-left.html

• Lisp Machine Keyboards ⌨

• Gamepads for Computer

• Glove80 vs Kinesis 360

• Naya keyboard

• Typing Habits, Hand Health. Index
• 🆕 Speed Typing. Index
• 🆕 Mousing Tips
• How to Avoid Mouse Hand Pain
• User Interface Design: Ban Mouse Drag
• Mouse Reviews 🖱
• Keyboard Layout Design 🔠
• Design of Keybinding, Key Shortcut, Input System

• Xah Shorthand System (Abbrev Input)

• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, comes with the best keyboard software.
• the software is also regularly updated.
• topmost quality software i've seen.

• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (UHK 60 V2)

• For coders working in Microsoft Windows, learn AutoHotkey.
• saves you hand pain, make shortcut keys easier.
• AutoHotkey Tutorial

• TA SE 1041 Ergonomie-Studie keyboard

• Ergonomic Keyboard History ⌨

• Kensington Orbit Trackball with Scroll Ring

Diktor Keyboard Layout. Efficient Russian Keyboard Layout

• https://olegp.name/software/diktor-keyboard-layout/

• Keyboard Layout Design 🔠

• Xah Lee Keyboard Key Log 2017 to 2018
• How Many Keystrokes Do You Type a Day?

• Computer Keyboards (2006)

• Dual-Function Keys and Home Row Mods

• Nulea M512 Trackball

• Kinesis mWave Keyboard

• Set Microsoft Windows Chinese Pinyin to Use Dvorak Layout

• TeleVideo 950 terminal (1980)

• Keyboard History ⌨

• Mac: Create Custom Keyboard Layout

• Semicolon vs Apostrophe Frequency in Computer Languages

• Onikuma Gaming Vertical Mouse

• Ergonomic Mouse 🖱

• iPhone 13

• bought car jump starter, ipad case, laptop stand, usb drive lanyard (2024-11-10)

set up Hover Mouse Auto Click. hand pain saver.

• Mac: Hover Mouse Auto Click

• on Microsoft Windows
• Windows: Mouse Hover to Activate Window

• on linux
• Linux: Mouse Dwell, Hover Auto-Click
• Linux: Mouse Hover to Raise Window

• Kinesis Keyboard Patent 1993
• IBM Ergonomic Keyboard Patent 1963

• macOS keybinding, Karabiner-Elements

• on Microsoft Windows, AutoHotkey is best tool to setup key shortcuts.
• saves hand stress pain.
• AutoHotkey: Launch App
• i started to use it to launch emacs.
• everytime i press the key, it launches a new instance, instead of switch. (this is desired)

• this is desired, since i switch by mouse hover.
• new instance lets you do things while old is running some script.

some random minor updates

• Why Alt Tab is Bad for Switching Windows

• Apple MacBook Touch Bar 2016

• Varmilo EC Switch
• Optical Key Switch

• Teletype 5620 DMD, Blit (1984)

• Gergo Keyboard

• Mouse with 2 Scroll Wheels and Thumb Wheel

• one has to be careful with apple stuff.
• icloud.
• when u buy a new apple comp, icloud is on by default.
• so, magically, everything u do is sent to apple.
• worse, all your other devices that has icloud off, now sync with ur current, thus sent to apple.
• and magically, i found i have 1 giga bytes of backup at icloud even, i was already careful, turned icloud off.

• QuicKeys

• iPad 9th Gen (2021)

• macOS keybinding, Karabiner-Elements

• Mac: Keyboard Software Guide

• bad designs

updated

• iPad 9th Gen vs SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab 2024