That’s actually a good point. I’ve read Optimot’s design goals and I’m working on a new revision where é and à are moved to the base layer since they are more common than a lot of consonants.

LibreOffice Calc and a lot of free time 😅

That was actually very similar to my first prototype but I went another direction.

FX300 Angular. Basically the WipeOut Pure typeface.

I always program my arrow keys to have PgUp/PgDn/Home/End, so technically they do two things 😅. I’m working on the layout and all of the layers are crammed already. I may have to abandon features tho, the way I see it I would need to free 8 keys on the function layer to make things work.

Yeah but I really like having physical arrow keys 😅

I’ve never been a fan of the vi-style keys.

Yeah yeah, AOSP and all that. Despite, Android is made primarily by Google to push Google products and most apps depend on Google services. For all intents and purposes, Android is a first party OS for Google.

Google literally owns Android tho.

if Linux/Mac/Windows all have the same deadkey combination for ë and ê on their built-in AZERTY, use a macro that types that.

They do actually. Macro it is then.

For the ligatures, I might actually map AltGr-O and AltGr-A to some keys and Alt+0156 and Alt+0230 to adjacent keys, so there is no need to maintain layer spaghetti just for two (useful but relatively uncommon) characters.

A whole new can of worms can be opened too with accented, uppercase letters.

I’m gonna scale my ambitions down. Let’s not be more royalist than the king as we say in French, I will aim for parity with the AZERTY keyboard and we’ll see from there.

Ergogen

No, good old TikerCAD and a lot of free time :D

I have very large hands so it’s mostly fine. Thanks for the standard spacing tho, I used 20mm because it was convenient 😅

Funnily enough, they are. Some tech millionnaire invested in them just after I (and 90% of the IT staff) left.

We all thought he was going to be another whale that they would bleed dry. But he actually took over and changed a lot of things.

So, for now, they still exist. I don’t know how or at what cost, but they still exist. I wouldn’t go back there for all the money in the world tho, I’m pretty sure the corporate culture is still toxic af.

I used to work IT at a company that leased electronic stuff to the general public. Oh boy were they shitty. Keep in mind, this is in a Western European country where employees and customers have actual rights.

There was a general policy of harassment and intimidation. Sexual harassment obviously. The female staff was constantly “ranked”, outfits were loudly commented. By management.

Sometimes you manager came next to you at 6:25PM. You’ve already been doing free overtime by then but utterly stupid management means sudden, unpredictable and hard deadlines. He would lit up a cigarette in your face and keep you until 10PM. Sometimes the deadline was so short and “important” people had to work until 5AM. For free (well, pizzas). And show up the next morning at 10 (instead of 9, woo).

Managers kept threatening you to cancel your holidays the day before leaving if you didn’t do this and that. Sometimes people had to connect from their vacations to do stuff because they were “critical” for something.

Money was a funny thing. We were constantly paid late. Sometimes more than 2 weeks late. Everyone who wasn’t an employee wasn’t paid at all. Not the rent, not the building staff (the toilets were FILTHY), not the contractors who remodeled the floor when we moved in, not the suppliers and especially not the IT contractors. I came in on day and found that I lost my entire team because their employers has never been paid.

One day, they lost a major investor because they lent money to purchase stuff to lease, not burning it in massive management salaries. As a collateral, the investor left with the customer database. So they were back to square one. So, as a get-new-customers-quick tactic, they created dozens of too-good-to-be-true promotions, like giving out electric scooters for new subscriptions and the like. With of course zero intention of honoring them out, since there was no money.

I could go on and on. Everyday there was new, shitty, borderline illegal stuff going on.

Oh thanks, I’ll check it out.