Ask HN: What are some good keyboards?

Re:Ask HN: What are some good keyboards? by qudat on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:45PM (#30550012)

I’ve been using corne (40% ortho split) for software development for over a year now. It is most definitely the way to go. Having common symbols ()<>{} be on a layer on the home row is so fantastic for typing speed.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good keyboards? by jokab on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:00PM (#30564115)

3 months on Corne and Colemak. Dont attempt if you just started a new job, dont ask me how I know.

The only benefit for me is I started to appreciate keyboard macros (built in/QMK, or AHK), IDE custom snippets, and gaming mouse macros (navigation mainly eg: goto implementation/definition, booarks, etc).

It made me a slightly better dev because I now take advantage of these features

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good keyboards? by alanbernstein on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:35PM (#30550750)

That makes sense. I recently got a keyboard with configurable layers, but I'm using mostly standard qwerty to start out, adding custom bindings one at a time. I think I'll try out your suggestion, would you mind sharing more details of your configuration?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good keyboards? by onetimertwo on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:08PM (#30557397)

Same, the corne (and generally 40s with layers) are great for programming.

I had to learn touch typing, but it was well invested time.

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