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  • A keyboard sound that says less

    Softnote is a key sound for laptop typing: one note, A5, for every key. Space, Enter and Backspace get heavier or muted strikes of the same note. It does not imitate a mechanical switch, and I have no evidence that it makes anyone type faster.

  • Voice typing on Wayland with a pair of EarPods

    I got voice typing working on Omarchy with Hyprland, Voxtype, and a pair of wired USB-C EarPods. Two clicks on the inline remote start and stop dictation, three cancel, one still plays and pauses, and saying “submit” presses Return.

  • The colors a design system does not have

    I ported the design system behind this site onto my Linux desktop, and the colors that transferred were the easy half. The interesting work was the slots that had nowhere to come from, and the one I filled wrong on the first attempt.

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