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Coding and Keyboards (2023)
If you’ve ever written some code – Python, R, or Stata, it really doesn’t matter – and used several different types of keyboard to do that, …
I haven’t written anything for quite some while, because I was (and am still) busy with my research; but I just stumbled upon this Reddit post, and thought that this is a very good chance to write about an interesting discovery I made a short while ago regarding coding and keyboards. This then suddenly explained why so much HTML code is written IN UPPERCASE LETTERS: On a US-ANSI keyboard, you can circumvent the pain of having to use angle brackets by simply enabling caps lock and then typing everything without pressing shift at all. The 8-Bit guy has a fascinating video on the history of arrow keys and how the physical layout of the vim inventor’s keyboard made sure that everyone else now has to live with this decision.
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