A better keyboard than QWERTY | The Vergecast

Today on the flagship podcast of alternate keyboard layouts:
The Verge’s David Pierce talks to Jonas Hietala about his ultra-custom keyboard he built from the ground up to fit his specific needs.
The Verge’s Tom Warren explains the next phase of Microsoft with a new leader on the Windows and Surface team.
Later, David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about tricks for Netflix recommendations.
Further reading:
Jonas Hietala: The T-34 keyboard layout:www.jonashietala.se/series/t-34/
Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief: www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24...
Microsoft’s first AI PCs are the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for businesses: www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24...
Rewind’s new feature brings ChatGPT to your personal information: www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23...
How Planet Earth - and the Netflix homepage - get made: • How Planet Earth - and...
00:00 - Intro
02:04 - The T-34 keyboard layout
26:33 - Microsoft and AI PCs w/Tom Warren
52:29 - Netflix recommendations tips (Vergecast Hotline)
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[@markhummm]

David's dog in the background really stole the show

[@Lord_Reset]

I built myself a 5 by 14 ortholinear and it's the perfect balance of basically a 65% layout but more comfortable while not being a pain to switch too and from. Absolutely love it

[@Blackmagic1o0]

Glad to see my boy David back at Verge 😄

[@Metal_seer]

Chord typing is optimal. Fingers stay on one key. Thumb moves between two keys frequently, and the third rarely. No RSI issues. Once you learn it, you can FLY. I first saw this idea in the 70s.

[@AK-so9gm]

David - buy a big pack of velcro ties and individually wrap each of your cables. It's a big one time job but every time after when you need to take your cables out of their bag you'll see that the effort was so unbelievably worth it!

[@yellowspark100]

Fill'em with vim and vigor

[@EoinJones]

For normal typing, my favourite hack is to make long pressing a letter return a capital, without needing to use shift.

[@swng314]

Trying to describe a kb layout is probably a visual concept not suited for the podcast format lol

[@BubbaLichvar]

Dactyl Manuform Gang rise up!!! I 3D printed my own. And, yes I do use Vim and Arch, BTW.

[@Samuel_Drolet]

Thumbs up for the dog !!

[@ssj4922]

Bro, that's just a Hitbox at this point

[@meskin84]

Maybe I’m a weird oldhead…but I have no care to change my keyboard layout. I love customization on mechanical keyboards, but don’t mess with my QWERTY

[@One.AutumnLeaf]

How much do you have to be absorbed in your work to customize such a bespoke keyboard & layout at the expense of familiarity with standards. We are overly obsessed with productivity...

[@JesseBradfords]

It turns out that most people who learn alternative layouts don't lose their proficiency with other layouts they have learned. If you spent a decade on QWERTY, it's almost impossible to lose that muscle memory

[@DeanLawrence_ftw]

people who create things for a living, and do so for a long time often end up adapting their tools to their needs.

[@BeanCountersOfBengaluru]

Or you can just not click on the video that "The Vergecast" in the title

[@salvatoreocello]

I thought it was a video of him building a better keyboard 🎹 but it’s not :(

[@willow2893]

VIM??????

[@Naumkovich]

этот чел ряльный или это ИИ визуализация(

[@pancakelegend]

Dog

[@zaineridling]

No.

[@Aloddff]

Has the verge fired an editor. Video quality is deteriorating massively. (Specifically pacing) If this is just reposting a podcast and fulfilling a word count by having 3 successive introductions it doesn’t need to be uploaded to KZbin

[@user-gs8zi1yh7c]

Don’t take any advices from a person who uses Vim…