George Bryant @gbrnt@mastodon.technology

Well the unusually cheap RX 580 I bought on eBay came from Estonia, and there was some weirdness with the order tracking.

But it arrived, it's actually an RX 580 (according to lspci), and it seems to work! Not a bad result for a risky buy.

First nice weekend of the year, so I'm heading out on my motorbike! Very out of practice so I'll stick to the small, quiet roads. I don't really enjoy city riding.

My wider keys for the edges of my keyboard arrived! They're a slight but noticeable improvement over the square keycaps with gaps.

One thing I found was that I kept putting my hands on the keyboard offset by a key, so I've now added little nubs on the F and J keys. To do that I drilled a 2mm hole through the keycap, superglued in a length of 1.75mm 3D printer filament, and cut it off almost flush. They're a little rough right now but will hopefully smooth out over time!

I bought a suspiciously cheap graphics card on eBay last night. RX 580 for £110... Something must be wrong with it? Only one way to find out really.

I wanted a self-hosted Confluence-like wiki type software to keep track of my projects. It looks like Bookstack is a nice one, and I managed to get it deployed on a spare laptop yesterday! It took a lot of switching between different wikis and guides, because I've never used nginx or laravel before, but I did it!

Took some "final" photos of my latest keyboard, but editing will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm just slowly working through a long list of small tasks.

So far I've found that my symbol and function keys need to be swapped, and backspace needs to be more accessible. Not super happy with the position of shift either - might move that to the conventional position.

Overall though I'm really liking the Gateron Browns. The Blues at the edges are interesting and I *think* I like them.

Here's my initial layout for the 12x5 keyboard - it turns out there are actually too many keys! This layout is mostly copied from my split kb, with some stuff put onto the extra 10 keys.

Next thing is to set up all the keycodes in QMK, and then I can give it a try!

Here's the diagram I worked off for the wiring of my new keyboard. I didn't bother making one for the split keyboard, but now I wish I had. Much easier to put together with this on a screen in front of me.

Just bought an Audioquest Dragonfly DAC. First thought is holy hell this is loud compared to my motherboard's built-in output.

I think to appreciate this, I'm going to need some slightly nicer headphones than my current Sennheiser HD201s. Any recommendations for something cheapish, over ear and closed back with fairly good isolation?