What I wish Apple had is a Magic Keyboard that works as a folio. That way I could use a Pencil to write on a flat surface, and still have the ability to use a keyboard.
I finally did it and moved to a more appropriate "home realm" for a #FreeBSD enthusiast. Thanks @stefano for offering this!
Moving followers worked flawlessly, restoring all my settings was pretty quick, but of course all my old toots are left on https://techhub.social/@zirias 🙈
So I guess I'll introduce myself here by writing a little thread, adding a few of my works that someone might find interesting. But first a bit of "who am I":
I'm a "professional" software architect/developer (mostly #dotnet platform in the day job), FreeBSD hobby-admin and ports committer, #C64 fan (and occassionally coder and even musician), and apart from computers also interested in music (playing a few instruments myself), traveling, cooking, sometimes sports, sometimes politics ... but probably won't toot about any non-technical stuff (or, very very rarely).
Let's start with my most recent opensource dev-project:
#qXmoji is an #X11#emoji#keyboard. Although it uses #Qt for its GUI, the mechanism to "type" emojis is pure X11. This means any X11 client can receive them (whether that client can correctly display them is an entirely different issue 🙈) ... not even #XIM awarenesss is needed.
The mechanism to inject fake "emoji keyboard events" is quite hacky and dirty, but it works!
Thinking about making a split keyboard. I don't really have the skills to design one so I'll just get something from online, but I think they're really cool nonetheless.
What fuckin' #sadist designs #laptop#keyboard layouts? #Stop shuffling around keys. Shift goes in a certain place. And its a certain length. :pepe_ree:
The new RedragonShop Eisa K686 Pro SE keyboard just arrived at my front door a few minutes ago.
This was sent to me as a review unit, so I'll be using it, checking it out and testing it over the next couple of weeks and then posting my review on the #AllThingsTech blog that you can view here:
Know why you can’t clean the greasy spots off your compute keyboard? Because that isn’t grease. Lots of computer keys are made from ABS plastic, which is soft and cheaper than PBT plastic. Those shiny spots are where you polished the keys by typing. #keyboard#computer#cheaphttps://instagr.am/p/C6ICqacrSLW/
I did it ... 😊 I could not leave it be...
I ordered custom printed #keycaps from WASD for my customized #chrumm#keyboard showing the full #NeoQWERTZ layout. 😅 Plus the keyboards first FN-layer.
They arrived .. today 😀 and they are beautiful. Came out much nicer and less chaotic than I feared. Even though #chaos, chaosknot and fairydust-rocket are part of the design 😁
On top of that, I added o-rings for a softer key-press bottom-out.
Tinha desde há tempo pendente a tarefa de mudar para um teclado Android de código libre e hoje mudei para o Heliboard em dois minutos graças ao @pancho e ao @villares ⌨️ Obrigado! 😊
I got a new keytar as a gift yesterday. It's a MIDI controller only. I want to play this thing in band, but don't know what to connect it to. What's your favorite softsynth for playing live? Name presets, if you use them. Mostly classic rock. I prefer poly -- I can't keep myself from playing chords, even in lead lines. MacOS or maybe iPad.
This brings several improvements, mainly in the build system, but the major change is support for localization, with translated Emoji names imported from #Unicode#CLDR. I added a German translation, see screenshot. Once again, I'd appreciate more translations, the process to translate is documented here: https://github.com/Zirias/qxmoji/blob/master/TRANSLATE.md