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Setting Up a Macropad for Claude Code on macOS

Left-Hand Pad is a twelve-key macropad with two rotary knobs, sold for macOS. It gives repeated Claude Code and terminal actions their own physical controls, so you can keep ordinary...

Auto Approve vs a Button You Press

Everybody running a coding agent all day ends up choosing between two costs. Either you keep answering the approval prompt, or you switch it off and ship whatever the model...

Can Copilot Approve Pull Requests?

There are two different questions inside this one, and they have different answers. Can Copilot look at a pull request and tell you what it thinks? Can its verdict count...

Codex: Approve All vs Approving Each Step

Ask Codex to do something and it asks you back. The choice people describe searching for is a ladder: approve this once, approve for this session, approve everything. Our Pedal...

A Foot Switch for Copy and Paste

The Pedal Three ($69) is three ribbed foot pedals on a curved steel base with a captive USB cable, and copy and paste is one of the first things people...

Hardware Accessories for AI Coding Agents

Search for hardware for AI coding agents and you get graphics cards. This page is about the other kind, the things on the desk between you and the agent. The...

A Notification Light for When Your Build Finishes

The Status Light ($45) is a matte black desk unit with three domed lenses, red at the top, amber in the middle, green at the bottom. It can tell you...

A USB Foot Pedal for Push to Talk

The Pedal Three ($69) is three ribbed foot pedals on a curved steel base with a captive USB cable. The most common reason to own one is push to talk:...

A Programmable Foot Pedal for Mac

The Pedal Three ($69) is three ribbed foot pedals on a curved steel base with a captive USB cable. On a Mac it behaves as a second keyboard, which means...

How to Approve Agent Actions Without the Keyboard

Pedal Three at $69 is three ribbed foot pedals on a curved steel base with a captive USB cable, and the reason it exists is narrow: an approval prompt costs...

A Foot Pedal for Cursor: What to Bind and What to Expect

The Pedal Three is the usual answer to a foot pedal for Cursor: three ribbedpedals on a curved steel base, $69, sending whatever keystrokes you assign. There is noextension and...

A Desk Gadget That Shows Build Status

The Status Light ($45) is a matte black desk unit with three domed lenses, red at the top, amber in the middle, green at the bottom. It is the simplest...

What to Put on a Vibe Coding Desk

A vibe coding desk is just a desk where most of the typing is done by a tool and most of your day goes on describing and reviewing. The change...

Claude Code Remote Control: What It Means and What Works

Google Trends returns claude code remote control as a rising query, which proves the demand is real without saying what anyone means by it. We make desk hardware, so start...

Keycap Charms for AI Tools

A keycap charm is a keyboard keycap turned into a small object you carry or fidget with, mounted on a base or a cord rather than on a keyboard. Most...

What Does a Foot Pedal Do on a Keyboard?

The Pedal Three is a foot switch: three ribbed pedals on a curved steel basewith a captive USB cable. Plugged into a computer it does exactly one thing, it sends...

Approving Claude Code From Your Phone

Short answer first, because we sell hardware and this is not a hardware question: nothing we make will let you approve Claude Code from a phone. Pedal Three is a...

What Hardware Do You Need for Vibe Coding?

A vibe coding device is not one product, and anyone selling you a single box that covers the whole job is overstating it. Vibe coding, as the phrase is generally...

A Microphone for Vibe Coding

A vibe coding microphone is simply something you talk into while a coding agent does the typing. Vibe coding, as the phrase is generally used, means describing what you want...

Putting the Claude Code Status Line on a Desk Lamp

The Status Light ($45) is a matte black desk unit with three domed lenses, red at the top, amber in the middle, green at the bottom. Before anything else: it...

Claude Code Auto Approve: What It Costs You

Auto approve is the mode where Claude Code stops asking before it acts. Most people searching for it are not trying to review less carefully. They are trying to stop...

USB Hardware for Coding Agents on Linux

Pedal Three ($69) is three ribbed foot pedals on a curved steel base with a captive USB cable. On Linux it is the easiest piece of hardware on this site...

Claude Code in the Terminal vs in VS Code

Claude Code is a coding agent you run from a command line, and it can also be run from inside VS Code. People ask us which one to pick because...

Hardware Shortcuts for VS Code

The KM16 Macropad is sixteen keys with three knobs, remapped in the browser over VIA, at $119. Pointing it at VS Code is straightforward, but only if you take the...

AI Coding Keyboard: What to Look For

An AI coding keyboard is a loose label, and most of what carries it on a marketplace is an ordinary keyboard with a new word in the title. That does...

ChatGPT on a Stream Deck: Keys, Icons and Voice

The Voice Pad is a compact mechanical keypad supplied with a microphone: three keys marked for microphone, tick and cross, plus one knob, $79. It is the shape most people...

A Left-Hand Keyboard That Only Does Shortcuts

The Left-Hand Pad is a twelve-key macropad with two rotary knobs, sold for macOS, at $49. It is not a keyboard in the sense of something you write sentences on....

How to Show Agent State Outside the Terminal

The Status Light ($45) is three domed lenses on a matte black desk unit, red at the top, amber in the middle, green at the bottom. It knows nothing about...

Controlling Claude Code Without Touching the Keyboard

The Pedal Three ($69) is three ribbed foot pedals on a curved steel base, and paired with a microphone it is the closest thing there is to driving Claude Code...

How to Set Up Push to Talk for Dictation

Push to talk for dictation is four steps, and none of them happen on the hardware. Our pads, like the Voice Pad ($79), are a microphone and some keys that...

AI Hotkeys on macOS: Free Keys, Permissions and Dictation

The Left-Hand Pad ($49) is a twelve-key macropad with two rotary knobs, sold for macOS, and it does exactly one thing: it sends keystrokes. Everything after that is macOS deciding...

A Stream Deck for Claude Code: What Actually Goes on the Keys

The KM16 Macropad is sixteen keys on an anodised aluminium body, with one large knob and two small ones, and it is $119. If you searched for a stream deck...

A Macropad for Terminal Commands

The KM16 Macropad ($119) is sixteen keycaps on an anodised aluminium body with one large knob and two small ones. Sat beside a terminal, it turns the handful of commands...

When a Macropad Key Does Nothing

Start by working out whether one key is dead or all of them are, because the two answers point in opposite directions. If every key does nothing, the fault is...

The Best One-Handed Keyboard for a Developer

The Left-Hand Pad is a twelve-key macropad with two rotary knobs at $49, and it is the closest thing we sell to a one-handed keyboard for a developer. Before anything...

USB Foot Switch: A Buyer's Guide

A USB foot switch is one of the least complicated things you can add to adesk: a plate with pedals on it, a lead to the computer, and the computer...

The three shortcuts you press most with an agent

Watch someone work with a coding agent for an hour and the keyboard traffic collapses into three actions, repeated. This comes from our own desks rather than a study, and...

Push to Talk for Claude Code: What It Takes

The Whisper Key ($87.90) is a handheld unit you hold near your mouth, with a key you press while you speak. Before anything else, the honest part: it does not...

Is a Stream Deck Worth It for Developers?

The honest answer is that a grid of programmable keys pays for itself once you have more than a handful of actions you repeat every working day, and not a...

Desk Toys for People Who Run Coding Agents

A desk toy for agent work is a small object that occupies the wait. If you run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI or Windsurf all day, a fair...

Keyboard shortcuts for the ChatGPT desktop app

The shortcut most people are hunting for is the global one: the combination that brings ChatGPT up over whatever you are already doing, without switching windows. Here is what it...

Push to Talk for ChatGPT Voice: What Actually Works

The Whisper Key ($87.90) is a handheld microphone with keys, and the first thing to say is what it is not: it does not recognise speech and it cannot reach...

Is There a Vibe Coding Keyboard?

A vibe coding keyboard is a second, small keyboard that sits beside your main one and carries the few actions you now repeat all day. Vibe coding, as most people...

AI Hotkeys on Windows: Free Combinations, Drivers and Voice Typing

The KM16 Macropad ($119) is sixteen keycaps on anodised aluminium, with one large knob and two small ones. It is a second keyboard. Windows sees it as a keyboard, and...

Dictation Not Working With Your Coding Agent

Before you change any settings, work out which of two different things is broken, because they fail for different reasons. Operating system dictation types text into whichever field has focus...

Why Is My Foot Pedal Not Working?

The most common reason a USB foot pedal does nothing is that nothing useful has been assigned to it, or that what is assigned is not what the app in...

A Keyboard for Your Non-Mouse Hand

The Left-Hand Pad is a twelve-key macropad with two rotary knobs at $49, built for the hand that is not on the mouse. For most of a working day that...

Cursor IDE shortcut keys

Cursor is built on VS Code, so most of what you already know still applies, with one wrinkle: it claims several combinations for its own AI features, and those are...

A Knob for Scrolling Long Agent Output

The KM16 Macropad ($119) is sixteen keycaps on anodised aluminium, with one large knob and two small ones. The large knob is why people buy it for reading agent output....

Stream Deck Alternatives for Coding Agents

The KM16 Macropad is the closest thing we make to a stream deck: sixteen programmable keys with one large knob and two small ones, $119, remapped in a browser rather...