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Hi *|FNAME|*,

I've got a whirlwind of a newsletter for you this month, so let's get started!

First things first, we are indeed hiring. This is quite rare, and you can read more below.

Our other big announcement this month is something that will become a daily ritual for me, and I hope maybe for some of you as well: a daily typing challenge. This is brand new and we haven't had much feedback yet, so if you try it out, please reply and tell me what you think (and how you did — not that I'm competitive about this or anything).

This month we saw our first order of ZSA Cards from Antarctica. Yes, really. I hope to get some pics of that to share someday. In other news, I wrote a love letter to my pressure cooker, as unglamorous as it is useful.

A cool community contribution this month comes from Jordan Munch O'Hare, who created a Python library for the Keymapp API. Jordan uses this to switch layers on his keyboard using a foot pedal (and a Python script). Handy!

Finally, I wanted to share that we now offer a few more parts on request: You can buy complete standalone keycap sets for the Voyager, as well as "Zip kit" covers (just the covers) for the Voyager and sets of keyswitches. These are all just for existing owners of the Voyager, and you can email us to ask about them — they're not on the site.

Whew! That was a long one. As always, thank you for reading, and please reply and tell me how you did on that daily challenge. :)

All the best,
Erez

“Using the layers for punctuation and for numbers is just so comfortable. It's the most useful thing.”

- Edward, Moonlander & ErgoDox EZ user

We're hiring

Looking for a remote front-end developer with a love of keyboards, writing, and small teams

One of the things about running a small, bootstrapped company is that we get to hire and grow quite thoughtfully and slowly. I'm not sure whether we'll have any other openings this year at all, but we have one now. Please check out our listing and share it with any friends who might be a good fit. Thank you!

Introducing Daily Typing Challenges

Can you get to the top five?

I'm so excited about this new mode for typ.ing: Everybody types the same snippet of text each day, and there's a leaderboard in the end. It gets harder throughout the week. You don't need an account to get started, but if you make one, there's a cool way to share your results with friends.

Featured User Interview

Adrian Nare

Intermediate Frontend Developer

Adrian is a coder and a DJ who speaks conversational Chinese. The world of DJing has its own language, software, and hardware, so this was quite interesting for me to read. I also share Adrian's fondness for hardware that lasts years and years. This is a fun one.

"For my DJing setup, I primarily use a Numark Mixtrack Pro FX, a compact controller that packs a mean punch when it comes to features whilst still being portable and lightweight, which I usually connect to my older 2014 MacBook Pro, as it is not a standalone controller."

One Handed Mac

Anyone who is trying to become a more efficient typist will tell you that learning to use Opt + Backspace to delete the whole word rather than spam the backspace is the new garlic bread.

Things we liked

Comball →

Billiards meets 2048

A browser-based game (on itch.io, but no download needed) where you launch balls from the bottom of the board, like in Pinball. Those balls then smash into other colored balls and make them move around, like in Billiards or Pool. Then, when a colored ball meets another ball of the same color, they merge, change color, and increase in value — like 2048. Fun!

Popular Chord Progressions →

You don’t have to be a musician

I can’t play an instrument, and this resource is still fascinating: It’s a huge collection of songs (over 50,000) each broken down into parts, and chord progressions into these parts. It shows you which chord progressions are shared between songs, and what the most popular ones are. Entirely free and Web-based, nothing to install. This opens up a fascinating window into how songs are put together.

The Colour Clock →

There’s a U in there because it was made in the UK

This is minimal full-screen digital clock (including seconds). The background color shifts with every second. There’s a button you can press to see how the RGB codes change over time. Simple and beautiful, looks great on a big screen. I only wish the colours had names, like in Oryx.

Silent Poems →

A different type of typing

This is a fun take on the notion of “just typing”, something we’ve played with in our own Keyboard Yoga project. With Silent Poems, you type, and interconnected glyphs appear. They’re squiggly and abstract and animated. You get to fill one screen, and that’s it.

Tabloid →

The clickbait headline programming language

Tabloid is a turing-complete programming language for writing programs in the style of clickbait news headlines. Every program must end with “Please like and subscribe”.

Tip: We have a subscriber-only link archive with all of the links we shared over the years. Just for you. ❤️

Wallpaper of the month

This month's wallpaper features the beautiful printable "Voyager Dock" by sondresj. It's a fixed tent with a built-in wrist rest that locks into the Voyager's accessory pins. Quite a fun accessory.

Thank you for reading!