I have two longtime friends—twin brothers from Hyderabad—who’d urged my wife and me to visit India for years. We finally went for their weddings a few weeks ago, and it was beautiful and fascinating. We had an amazing time and felt honored by how warmly people shared their culture and lives with us.

The last month has been a whirlwind.

We came back from a week in Chicago. I started a new job, and four days later my 3-year-old, 9,800-mile Ioniq 5 was T-boned.

We managed to get it repaired and replaced in that short time. Now we’re driving an Ioniq 5 N and a Dodge Charger Daytona.

I'm pretty happy with my selection of #mechanicalkeyboards, switches, and keycap profiles, but I can't help but feel like there's an ortholinear, alice, or another ergo #mechanicalkeyboard calling my name!

It would appear my dogs have found the fiber. Again.

Got my hands on the Drop + Matt3o /dev/tty Triumph MT3 keycaps for my Drop CTRL—love at first type! Also grabbed a cream-colored Womier SK65 for a retro build and found the perfect Drop MT3 Jukebox keycaps to complete the vibe. Like siblings!

After tinkering around with the switches on the Womier SK87 for a bit, I think the Glorious Mako tactiles for the alphas + some Gateron G Pro 3.0 Blues for the modifiers & actions is my favorite configuration on this board so far. I hadn't tried mixing different styles of switches. I like it.

So... Probably don't do Windows updates on your scheduled deployment day. Whoops! Still got it sorted, but that was a close one.

My wife picked me up a set of Vim-themed novelty keys in an SA profile, but unfortunately I didn't have any SA profile keycap sets. So, I ended up snagged the Drop+MITO Laser Custom Keycap set!

Absolutely beautiful set, with a nice weight to them. Going to take me a bit to get used to the height!

The existing repository from Epomaker only had a few issues. 1. The matrices were off and RGB effects were rendered on the incorrect keys. 2. The encoder resolution differs from the default. 3. The RGB byte ordering needed to be swapped. The LED layout threw me off a bit with its Interesting origin!

It only took me most of the day, but I managed to get full QMK/Vial support working on my Epomaker Tide75. All the features seem to be working perfectly! The Epomaker GitHub repo is close, but its RGB Matrices and some other configurations are a bit off. Had to take it apart to confirm things!

Did you know you can just 3D print a keyboard? It's true! No one can stop you.

#3DPrinting #MechanicalKeyboards

I love when my hobbies collide. I've spent the last few days 3D printing out a ton of different mechanical keyboard related things. From keyswitch bins, to keyswitch testers, a macropad dock, keyboard hangers, cable holders, and so much more!

Anyone have some cool #MechanicalKeyboard #3DPrints?

I haven't found a favorite yet, but I've determined that 60% and 96% aren't quite my style. Definitely digging the 87-key form factor as the current daily driver.

Started tinkering with some mechanical keyboards over the last couple weeks and having a blast. Granted, the UI/UX of the various custom firmware offerings has been a bit lack-luster, at least when it comes to the RGB department. Had to write my own effect to get my standard 2-tone color scheme.

Here is a quick example with the default console template with nullable reference types enabled.