I use my keyboard to control my computer as much as possible. By using a keyboard to navigate, launch, and manage your applications and data, you can

My Keyboard Setup

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2023-01-23 21:00:09

I use my keyboard to control my computer as much as possible. By using a keyboard to navigate, launch, and manage your applications and data, you can be faster and more accurate than with just a mouse because you can put combinations and chords into your muscle memory.

I used to remap tons of things on my keyboards, but I've worked it down to two main ones: I need my keyboard to have a CTRL key where Caps Lock normally is (inspired by "Modern Space Cadet" by Steve Losh) and I need an F19 key to fire off a second layer of "Hyper" key chords.

That special Hyper Key goes to some program that can change it into the mega-chord of CMD+SHIFT+OPT+CTRL... which is not used anywhere else in the OS. That way I can be sure when I define a shortcut I'm not overriding anything else!

I use karabiner elements to remap my built in laptop keyboard. I use QMK to rewrite the firmware for all my mechanical keyboards, so they "natively" have an F19. Both configurations put the F19 as the bottom left key on the keyboard, where FN usually goes.

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