There are a bunch of complete build logs available for the Dactyl Manuform and similar mechanical keyboards, so I wanted to focus on the specific design choices I made and why. Huge hat-tip to Zack Freedman, in particular with this video, which served as inspiration that I could pull this off. Why a mechanical keyboard?…
Tag: design
When their hand was forced by hard evidence, Apple admitted what many people had suspected: they deliberately slow down older phones, in as little as a year. Their apology letter is a masterpiece of copywriting. But let’s have a closer look, shall we? A chemically aged battery also becomes less capable of delivering peak energy…
Building a power supply is a rite of passage for electronics experimenters. I grew up in an age where all power supplies, even “wall warts,” had heavy iron transformers. In the last decade or two, better power transistors have become available, making possible switching power supplies, which are much lighter. (Think of your laptop power…
This epic posting on MVC helped me better understand the pattern, and all the variants that have flowed outward from the original design. One interesting observation is that the earlier designs used Views primarily as output-only, and Controllers primarily as input-only, and as a consequence the Controller was the one true path for getting data…
This came from a comment on the prior post, and it’s worth a shout of its own. Don Norman on the importance of command lines, including the ubiquitous search box, in modern UI. -m
Here’s the scenario: The night before a long flight, I upload my personal files into a freshly charged Kindle 2. To preserve the battery, I switch off wireless and in the bag it goes. The next day, on the plane, I open the Kindle…and it’s showing an entirely depleted battery, exclamation point and all. Can…
It is not the size of the codebase which makes it hard to grok, but the poorness of the design. More collected Geek Thoughts at http://geekthoughts.info.