I’m pretty happy with my current desk setup at home as far as ergonomics go. I have a small house and there is a small part of that small house where a small computer desk lives.

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Build details:

• Command 65 by Play Keyboard
• Ice Kachang Tactile Switches
• TX Stabilisers (PCB mount)
• Hammerworks CRP C64 Round 2 keycaps

This is the first in my series of posts about my keyboard collection; not because it’s my favourite, or because it’s the most expensive or the best, but because it’s really easy to photograph.

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Possibly the best new feature Apple has added to its iPhone for a long time is StandBy Mode, where if you put your phone horizontally on a charger (it works best with a MagSafe/Qi, but as long as the phone is charging and horizontal it will work), it shows a special horizontal display. There are various things it will display, but the only one I ever use shows the time in big numbers, like an old clock radio. And that’s exactly how I use it -– as a bedside clock.

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A traditional first (and often only) blog post is “here is how I set up my blog”. You could call this a negative first blog post, because I haven’t actually set one up yet, but this will be posted to it when I have.

On Mastodon recently someone said they had opinions they wanted to write but didn’t want the whole rigamarole of a blog, and I joking suggesting finding a Unix shell and writing a .plan file. For those who aren’t ancient, Unix machines traditionally came with a command called ‘finger’, and if you ran finger on a username one of the things it would do it print out the .plan file in their user directory. It was sort of a very early proto-Twitter.

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