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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I use fish because I have better things to do than tweak my shell configuration and debug shell plugins.

    When I tried oh-my-zsh and prezto (I think?) they came with tons of plugins that performed badly and made it hard to get things done (specifically, they ran git status synchronously on every new prompt, which does not work well in a moderately large repo). Fish had similar features but wasn’t horribly slow, so I use it.



  • I have 2 ergodox EZs, a homemade redox that uses Bluetooth, and a homemade dactyl manuform.

    For ergonomics, I’d say these are my priorities:

    1. Split
    2. Ortholinear with staggered columns
    3. Tented
    4. Mechanical switches

    The arrangement of keys on the ergodox got me to start typing correctly, and I think the split helped a lot with my posture.

    I had some bad luck with my dactyl manuform, the tenting was too aggressive, and the thumb cluster was angled in such a way that it put lots of strain on my thumb. I’m currently looking at replacing that with a Ferris Sweep.

    Bluetooth was a mistake, the latency was unbearable. It led to one half of the keyboard being consistently slower than the other half, so I’d constantly make mistakes. I used nice!nanos fwiw.