Having had a full numpad on one of my layers for the last few years, I hate having to stretch my fingers all weird to hit 6, for instance, when using my laptop’s keyboards with a number row.

Having had a full numpad on one of my layers for the last few years, I hate having to stretch my fingers all weird to hit 6, for instance, when using my laptop’s keyboards with a number row.

They’re the NReal Air.

Yep, those ones!

Yep! And for mouse control I mostly use the keyboard itself, or a trackpad on a lap desk. https://www.lauralangdon.io/blog/

Just the Voyager by itself is 419g.

I opened this bracing for a condescending tech bro, and that couldn’t be further from what the interview was actually like! As a Developer Advocate and documentarian, I especially appreciated this bit:

Finally, because I’m creating keyboards that are going to be built by multiple people with different backgrounds in DIY, I need to make sure the process goes smoothly. This means that during the design process, the 3d and electronic parts have to be made in a way where it’s expected there will be mistakes. It can and will happen that the screw inserts are not installed properly, the components are installed in reverse, there are shorts and cut traces and burnt plastic. People will make mistakes, and I need to work on making those mistakes less likely to happen, but also make sure that the keyboard is easy to fix.

This is so important, yet so infrequently prioritized. 👏

I think it depends on what you’re looking for. The Lily58, Iris, Corne, Aurora, and all other 40% boards I can think of have the thumb keys right up under the bottom row, which isn’t comfortable for me. Of course the Moonlander and Voyager aren’t 40% layouts, but I don’t use all the keys. But if thumb key placement isn’t a dealbreaker, those are excellent options!

True! In fact the Pentel pencil saw me through both undergrad and grad school (in math, so quite a lot of hand-writing of stuff). It’s basically family now.

Pretty sure Extremely Special Office Supplies are a gateway drug, and one of the places that can lead you to is… here. 😁

I’ve heard great things about the Glove80! I like a 40% layout, though, so it has way too many keys for me.

Thank you! 😊

Aha! Yes, the stickers are working very well for that so far. Sorry you couldn’t find anything to work for your keycaps! Oh, you could also try looking for nail art crystals. They’re often pretty tiny, so maybe more likely to fit a wider variety of keycaps.

Ooh, true. But maybe there’s hope?

While ZSA won’t be selling these keycaps on their own, the work we did to help Tai-Hao refine this new keycap profile is not proprietary. We wanted to push forward Choc keycaps as a whole, not just for us.

I adore the Moonlander, and absolutely think it’s worth the cost. I plan to keep using both boards in different contexts.

You can only purchase it pre-built. 😊 https://www.zsa.io/voyager/

Just the stock unlabelled ones! https://www.zsa.io/voyager/our-keycaps

Thank you!

What Impossibility Box said is 100% true. But also I only got into keyboards because I had wrist pain, and the Moonlander took my pain away. And then I got swept up into the hobby. 😁

Nothing exciting, I’m afraid! The orange pen is a Pilot from the Retro Pop collection, and the silver pencil is a Pentel Graph Gear 1000.