For me it’s all about major tenting—like nearly 90 degrees—to keep my wrists in a neutral “handshake” position. Having my wrists rotated to be use a keyboard that’s facing straight up gives me carpal tunnel. You could try tenting your Sofle or Kyria to see if that helps.

Okay, I've updated the post with lots more pictures and details at the end, including links to the all the bits and pieces. 😊

Stickers! To help me know which row I'm touching.

Ah, darn. Thanks for checking into this!

Thanks so much!

There are not nearly as many options for choc keys, particularly if you are mainly interested in ascetics.

Yeah, that's the impression I've been getting. Thanks for the links!

That's so, so cool! At the moment I'm looking for more of the pre-designed sets like I linked to, but I'm bookmarking this for future needs. 😊

I opened this bracing for a condescending tech bro, and that couldn't be further from what the interview was actually like! As a Developer Advocate and documentarian, I especially appreciated this bit:

Finally, because I’m creating keyboards that are going to be built by multiple people with different backgrounds in DIY, I need to make sure the process goes smoothly. This means that during the design process, the 3d and electronic parts have to be made in a way where it’s expected there will be mistakes. It can and will happen that the screw inserts are not installed properly, the components are installed in reverse, there are shorts and cut traces and burnt plastic. People will make mistakes, and I need to work on making those mistakes less likely to happen, but also make sure that the keyboard is easy to fix.

This is so important, yet so infrequently prioritized. 👏

I mean, even Neil Gaiman is far more active on Bluesky than he is on Mastodon, even though probably a greater proportion of his fans are on Mastodon, and he was on Mastodon well before Bluesky. So he's getting something from Bluesky that he isn't getting from Mastodon, and that's noteworthy.

Yep. I love and use lists on Mastodon, but I'd love to have the custom algos as well.

Same but for journalists/writers.

Lol, I talked myself out of adding more photos. 😁 I'll happily go back and add more, and comment again when I'm finished.

I think it depends on what you're looking for. The Lily58, Iris, Corne, Aurora, and all other 40% boards I can think of have the thumb keys right up under the bottom row, which isn't comfortable for me. Of course the Moonlander and Voyager aren't 40% layouts, but I don't use all the keys. But if thumb key placement isn't a dealbreaker, those are excellent options!

True! In fact the Pentel pencil saw me through both undergrad and grad school (in math, so quite a lot of hand-writing of stuff). It's basically family now.

Pretty sure Extremely Special Office Supplies are a gateway drug, and one of the places that can lead you to is... here. 😁

I’ve heard great things about the Glove80! I like a 40% layout, though, so it has way too many keys for me.

Thank you! 😊

Aha! Yes, the stickers are working very well for that so far. Sorry you couldn’t find anything to work for your keycaps! Oh, you could also try looking for nail art crystals. They’re often pretty tiny, so maybe more likely to fit a wider variety of keycaps.

Ooh, true. But maybe there’s hope?

While ZSA won't be selling these keycaps on their own, the work we did to help Tai-Hao refine this new keycap profile is not proprietary. We wanted to push forward Choc keycaps as a whole, not just for us.

I adore the Moonlander, and absolutely think it's worth the cost. I plan to keep using both boards in different contexts.