Field Notes
Giving Your Left Hand a Real Job: 16 Keys and 3 Knobs
A macropad only helps if the layer is designed rather than accumulated. How to build a 16-key layout in VIA that survives a real week of agentic work.
Giving Your Left Hand a Real Job: 16 Keys and 3 Knobs
A macropad only helps if the layer is designed rather than accumulated. How to build a 16-key layout in VIA that survives a real week of agentic work.
Reviewing Agent Output With Your Feet
Accept and reject are the two actions you repeat hundreds of times a day, and both take a hand off the keyboard. Foot pedals move them to idle limbs.
Reviewing Agent Output With Your Feet
Accept and reject are the two actions you repeat hundreds of times a day, and both take a hand off the keyboard. Foot pedals move them to idle limbs.
Why You Keep Checking Whether the Agent Has Finished
Long agent runs create a checking habit that quietly destroys focus. An ambient status light removes the reason to look, so you can work on something else.
Why You Keep Checking Whether the Agent Has Finished
Long agent runs create a checking habit that quietly destroys focus. An ambient status light removes the reason to look, so you can work on something else.
Dictating to a Coding Agent in an Open-Plan Office
Typing prompts is the slowest part of agentic coding, but talking to your laptop in a shared office is antisocial. How a silent voice keyboard fixes both.
Dictating to a Coding Agent in an Open-Plan Office
Typing prompts is the slowest part of agentic coding, but talking to your laptop in a shared office is antisocial. How a silent voice keyboard fixes both.