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meus recogitare et excogitare is a personal blog at xsznix.wordpress.com about hardware and writing. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The RSTHD Keyboard Layout”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The blog covers keyboard layout design, including its introduction of the RSTHD layout and how it was optimised with simulated annealing. Commenters link it when discussing RSTHD and other layouts such as T-34 and BEAKL.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The RSTHD Keyboard Layout5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-06-11
What Hacker News says?
I'm proficient in Qwerty, Dvorak, and RSTHD [1]. I also learned Colemak at one point and was proficient at it, but learning RSTHD replaced my Colemak muscle memory (which in itself is odd and interesting). Right now I use RSTHD when I have my ErgoDox, Dvorak on a standard keyboard, and Qwerty on mobile. Some additional things I've found: * It's possible to be proficient in multiple layouts at a time as long as you u…
Comment linking /2016/05/16/introducing-the-rsthd-layout/
on “Workman Keyboard layout”Submitted The RSTHD Keyboard Layout as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOr even better, do both. Someone recently posted a new layout for the Ergodox Keyboard which looks quite efficient (generated by a programm written in Rust). [1] [1] https://xsznix.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/introducing-the-rsth...
Comment linking /2016/05/16/introducing-the-rsthd-layout/
on “Workman Keyboard layout”There are many layouts that are computer optimized. The layout RSTHD that the base layer of T-34 is based on used simulated annealing for example: https://xsznix.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/introducing-the-rsth...
Comment linking /2016/05/16/introducing-the-rsthd-layout/
on “The T-34 keyboard layout”Thanks for sharing. Personally, I think BEAKL looks very good: Firstly, I found that keeping the up/down & left/right keys beneath the index and middle fingers was very comfortable to use with the RSTHD layout[0]. It follows then that I probably will enjoy how BEAKL places it's nav keys. Perhaps I will like it even more, because the Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End keys are also very important to me too - keys whic…
Comment linking /2016/05/16/introducing-the-rsthd-layout/
on “BEAKL – Theory and observations to find the optimal keyboard layout (2017)”