We’ve been stating the radio alarm clock to BBC Radio 3 for a gentler start than the news doom of R4’s Today Programme. This morning I woke to the 3rd movement of Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 (aka the funeral march). You know the one. That was a weird vibe to wake up to.
One of my favourite neighbourhood oaks looked lovely in the light this morning.
I spent most of today fiddling with my QMK settings to make the OLED displays on my keyboard useful and pretty (mostly pretty). I now have an animated doggy, layer and modifier indicators, and WPM counter. Time well spent!
Sometimes you’re just in the mood for a big dumb film. This was that film, and it hit the spot.
New post: Learning stenography with Plover.
In which I justify, I mean explain, why I’m spending a lot of my free time learning a whole new way of typing words on a computer.
Finished reading: The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes 📚. This didn’t grip me in quite the same way as Circe by Madeline Miller, but it was a good to read the Oedipus story from a female perspective.
Finished reading: Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott 📚. It took me a few chapters to get into the genre-bending style, but then I was all in, and raced through the rest. Can’t wait to read the next two books!
New post: Building a Corne low profile keyboard
Some details (plus backstory) about my recent foray into keyboard building.
I can’t quite believe it, but I have made myself a keyboard. And it works! Full post to come at some later point, when I’ve recovered from the shock of it working first time…
I wanted a cheap project to practice through the hole soldering on so this Conway’s Game of Life kit from The PiHut was perfect. The plan is to make a keyboard kit next.