Have I mentioned that I love mechanical keyboards? I have? Well, I've just finished up another little project, and I'm typing on it right now. It's considerably smaller than the Nimitz, but just as satisfyingly clicky.
I don't remember exactly what prompted me to visit this picture, but …
In response to my recent keyboard posts, Alpha Chen posed a really good question:
@zacbir Re: http://t.co/AmXWBktHHe Why not remap caps lock to control directly in the
firmware instead of doing it in OS X?
— Alpha Chen (@kejadlen) January 18, 2015The answer to which is: *headslap …
I realized that in my first post about my new keyboard, I didn’t really explain the process to build the firmware for the Teensy 2.0 microcontroller. Since then, I’ve modified my keymap to swap caps lock with control, and now I’ve added back in most of …
So, one of the first things I wanted to do with my newly resurrected Apple Extended Keyboard II was to return to the “proper” behavior with respect to the horribly misplaced Caps Lock key.
As a developer, I make extensive use of OS X’s built-in text editing features, many …
Mechanical keyboards. I love mechanical keyboards. I’ve owned several in the past, but between moves and an admitted amount of fickleness, I haven’t had one for about a decade. Now, that’s changed. I’m writing this on an Apple Extended Keyboard II. It’s stock, and is …
“Surely,” I thought, “there already exists an App.net sidebar for Octopress.”
[Edit: Well, there is, officially.]
Well, there is, sorta. But She’s a
Girl posted
about her work at getting it integrated with her site, but its artifacts are
mostly bound up in the commit messages for her …
It’s that time again. Time for you to buy my bag. I’ve got a 2011 Tom Bihn Ristretto for 13" MacBook Pro (same structure as their Original Style Ristretto, but larger). It’s Cocoa with Cayenne interior, and it has the Absolute Shoulder Strap. It’s in fabulous …
Long ago, Casey Duncan wrote a Zope 2 product called ExternalEditor. It let users of Linux and Windows designate local apps to edit Zope-hosted content. As a budding OS X developer, and a user of Zope, I ported it to OS …
It started innocuously enough. It started with a tweet:
Since some of you have asked, I love these wallpapers: simoncpage.co.uk/blog/
— Craig Hockenberry (@chockenberry) February 14, 2013
I followed the link and Simon’s art made an immediate impression on me. In an instant, I knew …