I’m resisting buying a new keyboard.

I have promised myself that my need to collect new keebs is over, and I can be happy with what I have. I tell myself that at least once a day. I have a problem.

The thing that is prodding me towards breaking my “no new keyboards” streak, is that my current dactyl doesn’t have enough keys. It does, and I could easily use layers, but my brain thinks it needs more keys in the thumb cluster. It would be nice, but it’s not really necessary.

I have too many keyboards. But the real travesty of it all is that I have too many keycaps. And none of them are stored properly. I have a tote full of keycaps, none of them collected by set, just mixed together. What kind of monster does that? Apparently, that’s me.

The thing is, I don’t know what to do about it. Some of the sets would be easy to separate, as they’re pretty unique. A lot of them, however, kind of look the same. I have a thing, apparently, for beige and gray keycaps, and have multiple sets in different form factors. Getting them all together by set would be damn near impossible, and even if I were to try, it’d probably take me days.

I’m a keyboard guy, we all know this about me. During my time as a “keyboard guy” I’ve tried out several different layouts. Everyone uses qwerty, but there are benefits to some of the other, less popular layouts. I’ve tried Colmak (dh and regular) and Dvorak. I’ve always failed at this transition. I can write about 100WPM on qwerty, depending on how bad my dyslexia is handling the day, but that drops to the low 20s on other layouts. Now, as with anything, the way to improve is to practice. But I’m not good at sticking with things when it impacts using my computer. And switching layouts does that because all of my keybindings for my text editor, my window manager, and many other things are all done with the expectation that I’m using qwerty.