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The New Hotness

  • Home Key Tactile Bumps

    It seems I do more typing than the good folks at Kinesis expected:

    Kinesis keyboard - worn tactile bump
    Kinesis keyboard – worn tactile bump

    In round numbers, the keyboard is all of two years old and that little ridge is pretty much history.

    The ultimate fix will likely involve a dab of epoxy, but a duct tape snippet should show me how much of a bump my fingers need to find the home keys without conscious thought:

    Kinesis keyboard - tape bump
    Kinesis keyboard – tape bump

    Early returns suggest one layer isn’t quite prominent enough; some iteration will be in order.

    And, yeah, I should yank the keycaps for some deep cleaning.