Xah Keyboard Blog Archive 2024-01

• Trackball Roller Plus

updates

• French Keyboard Layouts
• French Letter Frequency
• French AZERTY Layout
• AZERTY Layout
• 🆕 Canadian French Layout
• New AZERTY French Keyboard Layout (2019)
• Canadian Multilingual Layout
• French Ergonomic Layouts: dvorak-fr, bvofrak
• Bepo Layout (French)
• 🆕 How Do French People Type Accented Characters?

• Keyboard Glossary

• SafeType keyboard
• Ergodex DX1 Input System (2004)

• Keyboard Fun
• Steno and Chording Keyboards

• Keyboards with Wheel n Knobs

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

• Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts
• Workman Keyboard Layout (2010)
• 🆕 Colemak Layout (2005)
• Dvorak vs Colemak
• Pinyin Letter Frequency 拼音字母頻率

• Jashe_Speed_Typing_Guide.txt

major updates.

• Typing Tutorial, Speed Test, Typing Games
• 🆕 World's Fastest Speed Typers
• 🆕 Word Per Minute in Speed Typing
• 🆕 Keyboard and Typing Speed

• added bepo, adnw
• Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts

• German Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts: de-ergo, ADNW
• Bepo Layout (French)
• Russian Keyboard Layout

• Fat Enter Key (ISO)

• Xah Talk Show 2024-04-26 Ep548 Speed Typing, Sean Wrona's Crackpot Theory, Best Emacs Lisp Book

Ok, monkey type [monkeytype.com] speed typing website is a disease. It uses the top 200 or so most used English words, no captical letters, no punctuation, and not even valid sentences. So that, your typing score is the highest possible. A pleasure drug.

The result is, your score means nothing in practical typing, and you got hundreds of videos on websites saying how they achieved 200 or 250 word per minute crap.

• Crackpot Theory of Speed Typer Sean Wrona
• Speed Typing, Barbara Blackburn and Zoomer Grifters

• now can output json
• Character Frequency Plot

• 🆕 L-Trac Trackball CST1350-RC, 2014

• Xah Talk Show 2024-04-24 Ep547, Keyboard Layouts, Dvorak vs Colemak, on French German Spanish Pinyin (Chinese)

added frequency for Spanish, French, German, Pinyin, Russian. also added neo layout, and russian layout.

• Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts

new heatmap for russian layout.

• Russian Keyboard Layout
• Russian Keyboard Layout and Programing
• Russian Keyboards

• Why Not Blank Keycaps

• Microsoft Natural Keyboard

• Design of Keybinding, Key Shortcut, Input System

• International Keyboard Layouts
• 🆕 Multilingual Layouts
• Mac Keyboard Viewer

• German Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts: de-ergo, ADNW
• French Ergonomic Layouts: dvorak-fr, bvofrak

• Japanese Input Method
• Japanese Keyboard Layouts

• Chinese Input Methods
• Chinese Keyboard in James Bond
• Pinyin Letter Frequency 拼音字母頻率

• Apple Keyboard Problems
• Mac: Create Custom Keyboard Layout

• List of Dvorak Keyboards

• 🆕 Flat Maltron Keyboard
• Maltron Keyboard

• major update. added beakl, halmak, engram, minimak, qwpr.
• Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts

updates.

• Programable Keypad
• Why Programable Keyboards Are Better Than Software Key Remap
• Why Programable Keypad

• Trackball Ball Replacement
• Logitech G502 Mouse

• USB Hub and Cables

• History of Keyboard Mechanical Switches

Keyboard Innovations 2024

• so so many keyboard today
• and cheap.
• it's kinda amazing
• because, we r witnessing tech progress
• and lots innovation, in past 5 years.

• amazing
• explosion of keyswitches
• and many other new tech
• front roller bar for sound level and screen brightness
• hot-swappable
• mini display, became common.
• gasket-mount (a sound dampling technique)
• south-facing led
• south-facing with diffusor
• knob with LED display and push-button in-one.
• lots great alice layout

• EPOMAKER Aula F75
• EPOMAKER RT100 97
• EPOMAKER Brick 87 Keyboard
• EPOMAKER CIDOO ABM066 Alice Keyboard

• AlphaGrip

• EPOMAKER CIDOO V21 keypad

• Programable Keypad

some old article and some update

• EPOMAKER Feker Alice80 keyboard
• Mistel Barocco Split Keyboard

• Misc Keyboards

• HHKB Japanese Layout
• HHKB Type-S

• Happy Hacking Keyboard (HHKB)

• Japanese Keyboard Layouts

• Keyboard Key Switch Mechanisms
• Gateron Switches

• https://www.gateron.co/collections/gateron-switches/products/gateron-box-ink-v2-switch-set

• Xah Talk Show 2024-04-13 Ep544 Did Richard Stallman Create Emacs? Happy Hacking Keyboard, Lexical vs Dynamic Scope

• Kinesis Savant Elite2 Foot Pedal

• Xah Talk Show 2024-04-07 Ep543 Wolfram Mathematica, fsharp go vs rust, keyboard layouts, dvorak, colemak, beakl

• Maltron Keyboard

• Trackball Controller 🖲

much update

• Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts

• Keyboard Layout Design 🔠
• Thumb Keyboard Layouts

• Hands Down Layout (2020)
• 40 percent Keyboard Layout and Lobotomized Input System

• Kinesis Advantage Keyboard Layouts

updates

• Programer's Dvorak
• Computer Languages Characters Frequency
• Efficient Layout for Numbers
• Keyboard Layout, Is Inverted Number Row Better?

• Semicolon vs Apostrophe Frequency in Programing Languages

• Dvorak vs Colemak

• 🆕 Beakl Keyboard Layout

major updates.

• AutoHotkey Tutorial
• AutoHotkey Key Syntax

• AutoHotkey: Launch or Switch App
• 🆕 AutoHotkey: Find ahk_class
• Windows: Set Key to Launch or Switch App
• 🆕 Microsoft Windows Taskbar
• Windows: Create Custom Key Shortcut to Launch App

• 🆕 Windows: Key to Switch Language Input System

• How to Add Dvorak Keyboard Layout

• Delete Key

• Topre Switch

• Difference Between Apple and Microsoft keyboards

• Create Math APL Keyboard Layout

• Bad Keyboard Advice from Programers
• 🆕 Subtle Differences in Keyboard Have Major Impact on Hand-Health and How You Press Keys

• Xah Favorite Key Switch
• Tactile vs Clicky vs Linear
• Key Switch Activation Force vs Resistance Feel
• Mechanical Keyboard and Repetitive Strain Injury

• Keyboard Key Switch Mechanisms

• Keyboard Health Guide

• Azeron Keypad
• Epson Business Full Keyboard, 2004

• SpaceNavigator 3D Mouse

• Xah Guide on Programing the Kinesis 360 USB

• Ergonomic Kneeling Chair

• Electric Shaver

The ultimate hacking keyboard (uhk), most quality and dedication went into. And best keyboard software ever.

• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard V2
• 🆕 Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, Addon Modules

• Xah Talk Show 2024-02-26 Ep539 Svalboard Datahand, First Impression

• Xah Lee, Typing Experience and Repetitive Strain Injury

• Svalboard (Datahand)

not sure where this came from. maybe computer generated photo.

orbital trackpad

orbital trackpad 2023, by Lev Popov https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/113rfhm/orbital_tiny_trackpad_batch_one_has_shipped/

minor updates

• Lisp Machine Keyboards ⌨

• LMI Lambda Keyboard
• Symbolics Space Cadet Keyboard
• Space Cadet Keyboard
• Space Cadet Keycaps
• Hyper 7 Keyboard
• Keymacs, Lisp Machine Keyboard

• Keyboard Fun

• Keyboard Light, Light Color by Functional Category

• Programable Keypad
• Max Falcon-8 Macro Keypad
• Xah Lee Keyboards ⌨

Svalboard on Sale

datahand, svalboard, on sale. it's on svalboard discord at svalboard channel https://discord.gg/Wq8XD63rgM , you can also email support@svalboard.com if you want it.

new link. get it at https://svalboard.com/products/refurb-svalboard-alpha-black-and-yellow

• Svalboard (Datahand)

new photo featuring kinesis 360.

• Xah Lee Keyboards ⌨

• Best Ergonomic Keyboards, Xah Pick

new.

• EPOMAKER CIDOO ABM066 Alice Keyboard

lowline vs hyphen

• Computer Languages Characters Frequency
• Character Frequency Plot

• Print Screen Key for Screen Capture
• Design of Keybinding, Key Shortcut, Input System

This livestream webcam, bought by svalboard creator. Good for livestream macro shots on keyboards. We will see how he likes it.

• MOKOSE HD Webcam USB 3840 x 2160 Digital Industrial Camera with CS-Mount 5-50mm Telephoto Zoom Manual Lens UVC Free Drive. Buy at amazon

• Capturing Ultra high definition live images up to 3840x2160/30FPS Per Second, Full Hd Video 1080P/30FPS Per Second For High Quality Live Streaming, Video Calling On Windows / OS X / Linux / Android
• CS-Mount Lenses can be change, Solid aluminum shell material, With 3 meters USB cable. Double 1/4 Inch Screw Thread placement easier for multi-angels placement needs for laptop, desktop, desk and even other flat surfaces.
• Manual focusing helps for Precise focusing and get the clear image accurately
• Features 1/2.5″ 8MP CMOS image sensor for exceptional noise reduction,color reproduction and image low latency
• UVC free driver, Wide Compatibility for Third-party software and Operation Systems: Compatible with Skype, MSN, Facebook, Youtube Live Streaming etc instant messaging applications. Fits for multi-operations including Windows xp / 7/8/10, OS X and Linux or Android

my random notes on buying a cam Best Video Camera for Livestream

• Svalboard (Datahand)

• Xah Talk Show 2024-01-17 Ep531, Datahand, Svalboard, Emacs Xah Dired Mode

misc minor updates

• Mouse Reviews 🖱

• Logitech MX Master 3 Mouse (2019)
• Logitech MX Master Mouse (2015)
• Logitech G604 Mouse
• Logitech G502 Mouse

misc minor updates. need more work.

• Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts
• What is the Most Efficient Keyboard Layout?
• QWERTY Layout
• Is QWERTY Better Than Dvorak?
• Dvorak Keyboard Layout
• Programer's Dvorak
• Dvorak vs Colemak
• Keyboard Layout, Is Inverted Number Row Better?
• AZERTY Layout

• French Letter Frequency
• Pinyin Letter Frequency 拼音字母頻率

• Honeycomb Keyboard

• Red Light Bulb, JLAB Bluetooth Headphone

• Nulea M505 Trackball

• Kensington Expert Mouse
• Slimblade Trackball
• Adesso Trackball iMouse T40

• Trackballs Review 🖲

• Trackball Size Comparison

• Trackball Controller Xbox 360
• Elecom Bitra Finger Trackball

minor updates

• Dual-Function Keys and Home Row Mods
• Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

now Glove80 comes with with carrying case. Updated.

• Glove80 Keyboard
• Glove80 Carrying Case
• Glove80 vs Kinesis 360