I’ve been using a moonlander for a couple years now. I love it, but I’ve been toying with the idea of building my own with a trackball in the thumb cluster

I moved to porkbun after Google domains shut down, very happy with the service so far.

Automotive software is a regulated industry. No government is going to let John Doe off the street flash custom firmware onto a car and allow it on the road.

It’s free if you stay within the data limit. For anyone interested in self-hosting, immich is getting pretty mature these days.

https://immich.app/

It’s “cost neutral” in the sense that the company still pays the same $X to run the office regardless of how many people are in the office. But if it costs $1000/day to heat your office in the winter and only 50% of your employees are working in the office any given day, you’re wasting $500 worth of heating that day.

Looking at it from an overhead perspective, let’s say I have 1000 employees and my heat costs $1000/day. When all my employees are in, it costs $1/employee/day to heat my office. If only half my employees are in, it costs me $2/employee/day. My overhead per employee just doubled.

Yes, but the costs of those things are mostly fixed. If, say, 20% of the workforce goes into the office because they enjoy working there, then you pay the full cost of cleaning, lights, toilet paper, paper cups, and heating and AC for the entire building, even though it’s not at capacity.

Source: My company is hybrid, but a handful of people decide to go in every day, including three people from my team.

And if you only have street parking?

Is your monitor plugged into your GPU, as opposed to the plug on your motherboard (which would go to your integrated graphics on your CPU, if it’s supported)?

Zip almost always results in larger archive files…

I have a Moonlander and absolutely love it! I also need a numpad, so I’ve got a layer mapped so that when I hold the bottom key on the left thumb cluster, the right side turns into a full numpad. It takes a bit of getting used to, but I can touch type the entire numpad at this point.

ZSA used to make the Planck, but it looks like it’s been discontinued. That, and it’s smaller than what you’re looking for. But you could maybe look for a second hand one if you’re interested?

On my Moonlander, I have:

• Left
  • Top piano key: press for space, hold for alt
  • Middle piano key: Windows key
  • Bottom piano key: hold for layer shift to make my right split a numpad
  • Red “any” key: move to virtual desktop left
• Right
  • Top piano key: backspace
  • Middle piano key: enter
  • Bottom piano key: tap for one shot to VSCode macro layer
  • Red “any” key: move to virtual desktop right

I’m not super comfortable approving his work, but its functional and I don’t want to hold up sprints…

I know it’s not the point of your post, but this is a red flag to me. If you’re using scrum (which it sounds like you are?), a sprint isn’t defined as “when all the stories get to done”, it’s a set block of time (generally between 2 and 4 weeks). If the stories don’t get to done in the time period, you don’t hold up the sprint - they just didn’t get to done. Most teams will just refactor the story into smaller pieces to carry over to following sprints.

I got a Moonlander ~1-1.5 years ago (made by the same company that does the Ergodox). I’ll say that yes, there is an initial slowdown in typing speed as you learn ortholinear, but I find it to be so much more comfortable than the traditional staggered layout. I broke a lot of my bad typing habits similar to your Y->T mixup.

I think it’s also made me a better typist on traditional keyboards as well - I mainly use my Moonlander, but will need to use a traditional keyboard 1-2 times a day when running meetings in conference rooms. It did take me maybe 3 weeks to get up to ~70% of my normal typing speed, and then the last 30% came from me tweaking my layers and building the layout that’s comfortable to me.

I’m constantly iterating to make it more and more comfortable to use common keys (just last week, I changed my layout because I use the -> and => key sequences a lot when writing code, but I still need to tweak it more). Being able to change keymappings is a must for any keyboard, IMO.

Thumb clusters are 👌👌👌