Aaron SotoJul 1
Neil Brown
How your email finds me.
Jul 1 at 3:45pmWeb
Show threadSignalElevenJul 1
@neil dear Neil, I hope this email finds you wet.
Show threadHayley Question-MarkJul 1
@neil That looks like heaven.
Show threadOzzelotJul 1
@neil If I have this setup, no email is finding me. That's for writing lyrics to never be heard.
Show threadzuzakJul 1
@neil I like the "donate to charity" hotkey on fn+ctrl
Show threadEdinburgh ManJul 1
@neil I miss my Compaq iPAQ and its folding keyboard...
Show threadJames SewardJul 1
@neil From the colours briefly thought this was an EE ad
Show threadAlex WillmerJul 1
@neil I see you've joined the typing pool
Show threadDerick RethansJul 1
@alex That's such a @neil worthy joke 😄
Show threadbazzarghJul 1
@neil same \\\\\\ just practicing my backstroke
Show threadlorenzoJul 1
That Keyboard! 💙💙
Show threadgrmonJul 1
@neil now I want that keyboard. What is it?
Show threadSpace HoboJul 1
@grmon
Same. My folder has far less travel than that clearly does!
@neil
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jul 1
@spacehobo @grmon @neil It’s a ThinkOutside Stowaway keyboard. Gorgeous piece of hardware. I bought one to go with my Nokia 770. The company went bankrupt a few years later. You can still pick them up second hand fairly often: mine still works nicely.
Show threadCharlie StrossJul 1
@david_chisnall @spacehobo @grmon @neil They run off 3x AAA cells. Main problem I have with mine is that there are two shift-state keys (blue and green, for functions not on the core QWERTY block) and they're hard to tell apart—blue on dark grey/green on dark grey—and difficult to see without lighting. (It's not backlit.) It was a classic, though.
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jul 1

@cstross @spacehobo @grmon @neil

Needing a modifier for the escape key wasn’t great for vim either. I used mine to write a lot of articles and a few book chapters, but that kept tripping me up.

Show threadSpace HoboJul 1
@david_chisnall @cstross @grmon @neil I usually give up on those modifiers, and use `^[` for Escape. It's far more reliable to type, although I always need to figure out how to turn that ^%#&#^%# "Caps Lock" key into a Ctrl as is Correct.
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jul 2

@spacehobo @cstross @grmon @neil

[ requires a modifier on this keyboard, and control is not quite where I expect it either (and isn’t consistent across other keyboards), so not good for muscle memory when using multiple machines. In contrast, escape is always in the corner, the easiest key to hit without thinking. It’s even there in this one, it just needs a modifier.

Show threadKanaMaunaJul 1
@neil Peaceful, followed by oblivion.
Show threadRubenJul 1
@neil do you use this as a ssh terminal or just on device?
Show threadDavid CohenJul 1
@neil All hail the Stowaway keyboard - the finest portable keyboard ever invented.
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jul 1
@davidbcohen @neil Such a shame ThinkOutside went bust, but mine is now about 20 years old and still works well.
Show threadDavid CohenJul 1
@david_chisnall @neil I have a Dell one - still works great too
Show threadAgnieszka R. TurczyńskaJul 1
@neil Nice setup 😍
Show threadSpace HoboJul 1

@neil
REPLY TO ALL.

GET ME OFF THIS SPAM LIST NOW #UNSUBSCIBE

Show threadBasilJul 1
@neil let me just float an idea.
Show threadAndy WoottonJul 2

@neil I had a Nokia Linux N800 tablet with a tiny Apple keyboard that looked just like that. If it and mobile Internet hadn't been so appallingly slow at the time, it would have been great :-).

[I checked - 2007! :-O ]

Show threadJason SchwarzJul 2
@neil What keyboard setup is that?