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30% keyboard is tiny, adorable, weird, and "very cramped"

Attention mechanical keyboard aficionados! If 40% mechanical keyboards are just too bulky for you, try a 30% one such as the Gherkin, which includes the characters of the alphabet and four arrow keys, which are chorded in various ways to reach capital letters, numbers, function keys and so forth. If 30% mechanical keyboards are just too bulky for you, try a Gherkin with the switches as close together as they will go.

Typing on this is weird. It feels very cramped, it may be different with a different style keycap. I will try a set of cut down DSA keycaps which has more space between the keys. It is much better than the microswitches on the Flanck.

I like the idea of small, just-get-writing mechanical keyboards, but can’t get to grips with these minuscule grid-layout ones. Here is the layout I’d like to use, which I call the “Cormac” because you don’t get to quote anyone and you sure as hell don’t get to ask questions of the place where you stand and see for a brief moment the absolute truth of the cold relentless implacable darkness.

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