Keyboards & Ergonomics
The hardware questions, answered with the arithmetic rather than the marketing — layouts, switches, strain, and the keys nobody explains.
6 articles
I measured 372,000 characters of production source against 335,000 of published prose. Code is 8.8x denser in symbols and needs Shift 10x as often. Here is what that does to your typing speed.
SysRq has been on keyboards for forty years and never did anything. Scroll Lock solved a problem that no longer exists. What every dead key was actually for.
Alt codes are the worst way to type symbols and everyone teaches them first. The shortcuts that work, the picker that always works, and what beats both.
Two studies of over 200,000 people put phone typing at 36 WPM and keyboards at 52. Why the gap is closing, and which side of it is actually moving.
A meta-analysis found computer users had lower carpal tunnel rates than the general population — and pointed at the mouse, not the keyboard. What that means.
What switching layouts or buying a mechanical keyboard really costs and returns — the break-even math, the evidence behind the claims, and who should bother.