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I am still waiting for my Ferris Sweep to arrive but in the meanwhile I have been keeping busy by drilling Colemak DH and learning QMK. I posted last week about some ideas I had for the layout I wanted to try, which I have since refined and managed to code up in QMK to the point that it compiles! This may sound a bit weird but I am deep learner - its how my brain works.

Anyway there is lots of documentation - which you might consider even more weird I don't know - let me know what you think. All subject to change especially when the .. firmware .. hits the .. metal .. I guess?

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[–] GSVCargoCult 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like it! I love the use of one shots and TD to get to multiple layers. I’m on a Corne w ZMK

One thing I took advantage of was having Esc on my thumb for Vim. Here’s my (undocumented, sorry) repo, albeit in zmk i case there’s anything there for inspiration. https://github.com/allymparker/zmk-config-unified

[–] hannadryad 3 points 1 year ago

Yes that extra thumb key is awfully tempting. It was touch and go whether I was going to start my ergo keyboard journey with two or three thumb keys. In the end I went with a hunch that I didn't want to pull my thumb too far under my palm for that third key but having escape or a leader key right on my thumbs would be very powerful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like esc on a combo, but I've considered esc on a thumb key for vim as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks really good! Hopefully it not only compiles but actually works as intended too :)