I love the hardware because it's the only keyboard I've been able to find that keeps a live Bluetooth connection and lets you toggle back and forth between USB and Bluetooth instantly using only a keyboard shortcut. That means you use two computers, and switch back and forth as fast as you can type. Years ago I also added a feature that changes the backlight color based on the active connection, so you can instantly tell which computer your typing will go to. I haven't been able to find any other keyboard that's quite as nice.

Lately I've spent weeks using an LLM to update the extremely old keyboard firmware to the latest firmware of its components (e.g., Circuitpython, the BLE firmware, the boot loader) and implementing all of my dream keyboard features that I never had the gumption to spend hours implementing pre-LLM. I finally resolved years-old bugs, and I added things like layer-based backlighting (so that the individual keys with relevant functions are lit), a better battery gauge, better sleep/suspend timing, backlight calibration, better debounce, and so on.

I've also upgraded the hardware and added batteries to each of the keyboards (I have three of these, one at home, one in the office, and one for travel).

It has been a very satisfying project, finally scratching a years-old itch.

It’s amazing how that sick feeling in your stomach can be fixed by looking at some purely visual moving dots.

The fix here is to change the law to permit training AI without destroying the original materials. But that is going to be a heavy lift.

It runs really well and fast enough for what I need, and it works great, but it’s slower than Claude. I use it for projects where I’m not allowed to use third party AI for legal reasons.

It also omits Open WebUI. I've been running Deepseek V4 Flash locally on my Macbook Pro for weeks using Open WebUI + DS4.

I think if people understood that daylight time = get up early and standard time = get up late, most would agree that getting up late is better.

I have to disagree that it's good for LLMs to do the research, depending on the context.

If by "useful for research" you mean useful for tracking down sources that you, as the writer, digest and consider, then great.

If by "useful for research" you mean that it will fill in your citations for you, that's terrible. That sends a false signal to readers about the credibility of your work. It's critical that the author read and digest the things they are citing to.

For years I used a Trackpoint external keyboard plus a mouse. The track point is great for small movements when you’re primarily typing, and the mouse is great for when you are primarily moving the cursor.