Category: keyboard

Typing a Timestamp With One Shortcut on Ubuntu 24.04 Wayland

I have been typing timestamps by hand for years now. File names, notes in a scratch buffer, markers in a log I keep while working on a server.. always the same little finger dance. Last week I decided this is silly and that Ctrl+Super+T should simply type it for me. It sounded like a five…

kernel

Two Generations of Computing Equipment…

I love new tech and gadgets… I love old ones too…

blogging

IBM Model M Keyboard Goes Blank

I am a proud owner and user of a Das Keyboard Ultimate. Some weeks ago I had the chance to lay my hands on (thanks to a friend who found it in a junkyard and cleaned it) an original IBM Model M keyboard produced on 1991-01-22. Nearly 24 years old equipment.

hardware