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My keyboard journey

Blog post about my keyboards

Sometimes I think about the long journey I've made with keebs. In childhood, I had decent membrane keyboards, most of which had an ergonomic profile like the MS. Not sure if it somehow affected my taste because I started my career with the simplest, cheapest board and typed countless lines of code on such keebs. Then I heard about clickity-clack mechanical keyboards and decided to try one. It was a simple Chinese keeb with a thick metal body, double-shot caps, and Cherry Brown switches. A decent thing to annoy everyone around you. I think this purchase marked my dive into mech keebs I'm not a geeky aficionado who thinks you can fix everything with a new keyboard, but I built a couple of them. I hope I've finally built the last one for quite some time. …

drafted on 2024-06-05