My Dvorak Adventures

Most people (including programmers) use Qwerty in some form. This includes non-english keyboards, like the German, French, and even the Chinese keyboard. Germans use a keyboard where the ‘y’ and ‘z’ keys are switched, because while the inventors of German seemed to think there was something illogical about the letter y, z is a sensible letter. The German keyboard also removes the symbols ‘[’, ‘]’, and ‘;’ under your right pinky in favor of the umlauts, ä, ö, ü....

February 16, 2025 · 7 min · 1361 words · oneElectron