Great article. Keyboards are indeed a very personal pieces of hardware. I am pretty new to web development about 10 months using ruby and rails. And if you are new to development, like I am you already been through the which IDE is better, spaces vs tabs and even the emacs vs vim debacles, so I wasn’t looking forward to the keyboard debates. I just wanted an enjoyable keyboard. So I had a list of requirement.
Under $160USD
Well Built
Mechanicals Switches
I picked Cherry MX browns because being a my first mechanical keyboard, I figure the happy medium will do and will help me figure out quicker if I needed something different. I also tend to rest some of the weight of my fingers in homerow without being activating so easily, I also want to do some light gaming in the future, so happy medium.
OS agnostic
Backlit
True N-Key Rollover over PS2
Minimal (no branding/logo)
So I end it up grabbing the CODE 104-Key by WASD KEYBOARDS which was a collaborative work between WASD and Jeff Atwood. I am extremely happy with it and I probably will grab another one for the office. My only issue was that you must have a wrist/palm rest because it’s a little tall so I bought a wooden palm rest and It’s perfect now.
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Great article. Keyboards are indeed a very personal pieces of hardware. I am pretty new to web development about 10 months using ruby and rails. And if you are new to development, like I am you already been through the which IDE is better, spaces vs tabs and even the emacs vs vim debacles, so I wasn’t looking forward to the keyboard debates. I just wanted an enjoyable keyboard. So I had a list of requirement.
So I end it up grabbing the CODE 104-Key by WASD KEYBOARDS which was a collaborative work between WASD and Jeff Atwood. I am extremely happy with it and I probably will grab another one for the office. My only issue was that you must have a wrist/palm rest because it’s a little tall so I bought a wooden palm rest and It’s perfect now.