#keyboard-layouts
8 episodes
#5464: Your Keyboard's Hidden Data Problem
Your keyboard knows your email address, your phrases, your habits — and you can't take any of it with you.
#5420: How Keyboard Middleware Actually Works
A keyboard isn't one thing — it's a stack. Here's how input methods, composition buffers, and hooks really work on Linux, Android, and Windows.
#5387: Who Decides What Your Keyboard Knows?
Your keyboard's word list was probably frozen in 2014. Here's who maintains the open-source dictionaries — and why Gboard's stays fresh.
#5082: Why Mechanical Keyboards Refused to Die
The surprising economics and community revival behind the keyboard that wouldn't stay dead.
#2802: The Tea Standard and 9 Other Weird ISO Rules
Ten hyper-specific international standards that make you question what humanity does with its collective time.
#2593: The Politics of Unicode: Paleo-Hebrew, Han Unification, and Who Decides What a Character Is
What it takes to build a custom keyboard for an ancient biblical script, from Unicode politics to font design.
#2585: The Pristine Key Namespace Nobody Uses
How unused keyboard keys, custom firmware, and layered macros can transform your workflow.
#859: Beyond QWERTY: The High Cost of Keyboard Efficiency
Is your keyboard an ancient relic? Explore whether switching to Dvorak or Colemak is worth the "valley of despair" for better ergonomics.