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saturday, 2 may 2026

chocofi wi – since Covid the diminutive Georgi keyboard had been my daily driver. Not as a steno keyboard for which it had been designed (and upon which i dabbled with Plover) but as a standard keyboard, albeit with my highly ... colophon

chocofi wi hybrid – after time with the Chocofi Beakl Wi and the Chocofi Beakl Wi staggered layouts, the winner is.. beakl wi hybrid Save for the staggered pinkie finger chord—from the top+middle row to the middle+bottom row ... colophon

chocofi wi stagger – hot on the heals of Chocofi Wi layout is the contemplated staggered pinkie version of the layout. The utility of shifting the pinkie cluster down a row is dependent on one’s physical hand proportions. Hands whose ... colophon

friday, 21 october 2022

extreme beakl wi – if BEAKL Wi-v is a variant of BEAKL Wi, then.. beakl wi-x is the logical extension of it to the extreme, moving the Z to the pinkie home row and the X to the ... colophon

sunday, 15 august 2021

chorded bigrams – a recent thread on reddit raised an interesting topic regarding same finger bigrams. While constituting only a small percentage of common bigrams—two letter combinations—the problem is exacerbated when the letter requires a weak finger double tap, notably the pinkie ... colophon

monday, 10 may 2021

split chords – waiting on 15g springs for the Splitography, porting the chorded home row layout to it was inevitable as i further explore this minimal finger travel layout approach and the power of DennyTom’s chording engine. While my own ... colophon

sunday, 18 april 2021

georgi wi – this layout uses the Georgi keyboard and a (firmware) chording engine.. Edit: Added QUIKEY shortcut editing overlay layer Edit: Added Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right keys to Cursor layer Edit: Added Comma Period chord ... colophon

saturday, 17 april 2021

chording engine – and how i have been won over by a 30% keyboard. The Georgi keyboard for steno is flashed with QMK software but with a divergent approach from most supported keyboards. Namely, it uses a “chording” engine ... colophon

georgi'ous – keyboard and how i have become a chording engine convert. A couple years ago, g Heavy Industries introduced the Georgi for steno advocates using Plover. It is one of the few dedicated split steno keyboards and i ... colophon

friday, 29 january 2021

beakl wi'd – the main BEAKL development test bed platform for the past two years has been the Chimera Ergo 42 and Corne 42 key keyboards. They both share the same codebase including all the layers with only a single configuration ... colophon

saturday, 16 january 2021

daily beakl – the current keyboard layout daily driver is BEAKL Wi**. This page consolidates information which may be ommited from the layout write-up, with inherited layers or features described elsewhere. It is presented so one doesn’t have to search ... colophon

friday, 15 january 2021

number pad – BEAKL Wi saw the first changes to the Number Layer after a long history of BEAKL iterations, with the placement of the numbers in their order of frequency—by finger row and column priority. While a radical departure from ... colophon

saturday, 2 january 2021

lazy beakl wi – or shortie pinkie Wi. i came across this keyboard design some time ago which had a distinctively heavier pinkie finger stagger than is commonly found. But as radical as the column stagger appears, i had noticed ... colophon

saturday, 21 november 2020

beakl wi – it didn’t take long! the changes introduced by the BEAKL Bi layout spurred on further explorations—the upper row QU roll, never quite feeling as natural as the familiar home row roll with BEAKL Zi. Returning to the new keyboard ... colophon

friday, 20 november 2020

keyboard layout evaluation – there are a number of keyboard layout analysers, some web based, some desktop applications. The readily accessible web based analysers use a graphical interface to input a new layout for comparison against a predefined library of stock layouts—QWERTY, Dvorak ... colophon