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2019-02-16
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agile_geek08:02:00

I've had one of my talk submissions turned down by Devoxx and accepted by BITR https://bitrconf.org (I know, shouts of "Fix!" right?) so I guess I better get to writing it now!

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jasonbell09:02:54

How’s that programme committee of one going @agile_geek 🙂

agile_geek09:02:09

Very well thx mate

alexlynham11:02:34

morning morning

alexlynham11:02:07

just had a week off between jobs and predictably spent almost all of it ill

alexlynham11:02:43

though I did find just enough time to build a new split ergo keyboard and it's ace

dominicm11:02:32

What you got?

dominicm11:02:40

Custom dox?

alexlynham12:02:09

I tweeted the custom keymap I made for it. Might break it out into its own folder and PR it back into QMK but I suspect most folks do what I did and just fork and write over the default profile

alexlynham12:02:26

weirdly because there's only alphas on the main layer it's way less stressful as if you bash the wrong key there's zero chance of windows flying away or whatnot like on the ergodox

alexlynham12:02:52

having to switch layers to do stuff makes it feel more precise

alexlynham12:02:28

and if you're used to emacs, you're used to holding down loads of keys at once

dominicm12:02:55

That looks quite nice

dominicm12:02:20

Do you use a custom layout? Not dvorak?

dominicm12:02:39

I want to start keylogging myself so I have data to feed into a layout generator

alexlynham12:02:41

nah it's still qwerty on the alpha layer to be honest.

alexlynham13:02:13

maybe I will try something like colverak but it's also about keycap availability

alexlynham13:02:09

my custom keymap is more so I have a tab key, and arrows, and home/end plus the special chars I want for programming

alexlynham13:02:35

because I think a lot of the mini layouts are optimised for typists

alexlynham13:02:11

and I don't need to type quickly most of the time, I need to type precisely

alexlynham14:02:33

I wrote a short build log, and there's a link to the keymap: https://the-frey.github.io/2019/02/15/helidox-build-log

dominicm14:02:21

what do the oleds do?

alexlynham14:02:19

well I forgot to jumper the right one (oops) so I took it off

alexlynham14:02:31

but normally that just displays the logo the creator (foostan) made

alexlynham14:02:01

the left hand one displays current layer, current pressed key position and last registered key as debug

alexlynham14:02:08

so the left is actually useful

alexlynham14:02:16

though obv you can customise both to do whatever

dominicm14:02:22

I was picturing optimus maximus

alexlynham14:02:06

I might build it again and not mess up that part lol

alexlynham14:02:37

you can put any ascii art that fits, or you can wire up stuff that responds to the events emitted

alexlynham14:02:45

the main thing is space on the microcontroller

dominicm14:02:54

that's interesting

alexlynham22:02:30

ha! of course thomas ran has done a video about the optimus maximus https://youtu.be/qj7GYU-wedo

alexlynham22:02:58

(in case you, like me, only take in information when it's delivered in a matt berry voice)