PVpvinis·Jun 16, 2016Submission
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white_keyboard_layout
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mw8 / white_keyboard_layout
white_keyboard_layout
An optimized personal keyboard layout and the tools to create your own
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2Mentions
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102GitHub stars
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An optimized personal keyboard layout and the tools to create your own
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Observed mentions: 2016-06-11 15:45:12 UTC to 2016-06-16 16:36:43 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jun 11, 12:00 | 2016-06-11 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-11 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 11, 18:00 | 2016-06-11 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 12, 00:00 | 2016-06-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-12 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 12, 06:00 | 2016-06-12 06:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-12 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 12, 12:00 | 2016-06-12 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-12 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 12, 18:00 | 2016-06-12 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 13, 00:00 | 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-13 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 13, 06:00 | 2016-06-13 06:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-13 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 13, 12:00 | 2016-06-13 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-13 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 13, 18:00 | 2016-06-13 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 14, 00:00 | 2016-06-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-14 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 14, 06:00 | 2016-06-14 06:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-14 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 14, 12:00 | 2016-06-14 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-14 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 14, 18:00 | 2016-06-14 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 15, 00:00 | 2016-06-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-15 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 15, 06:00 | 2016-06-15 06:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-15 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 15, 12:00 | 2016-06-15 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-15 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 15, 18:00 | 2016-06-15 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 16, 00:00 | 2016-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-16 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 16, 06:00 | 2016-06-16 06:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-16 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 16, 12:00 | 2016-06-16 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-16 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesAlso note the White Keyboard Layout, which was released recently as a reaction to the Workman layout due to some concerns about the optimizaiton parameters.
https://github.com/mw8/white_keyboard_layout
He defined a somewhat different set of scoring, then ran a simulated annealing algorithm to find a layout that optimized that score, then did a few manual tweaks for consistency and learnability. The code for the optimization is available, so you can define your own scoring and run it yourself.
In Workman Keyboard layout