This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Nextdoor lunacy, pharmaceutical hacking, cops, and very good keyboards.
EMANUEL: Let’s talk keebs. I am not the world’s leading expert, nor am I even half as deep as most members of the r/MechanicalKeyboards Reddit community, but something I learned many years ago is that if I’m going to spend the majority of my life hunched over a screen I might as well make it as nice of an experience as possible. Ideally, if you do it right, you don’t even have to hunch. I recommend this to anyone with a desk job. Much like it’s worth splurging on a nice mattress because you’re going to sleep on it every single night for 6-8 hours, it’s worth dumping whatever money you can on your work setup because you’re probably spending more time there than you do in bed.
Maybe at some point I’ll get around to writing a big Good Enough post that lists every single useful item that’s part of my battlestation, but today I am obsessed with a new keyboard I got called the Keychron Q11 QMK. I made the switch to a split mechanical keyboard around 2018 because I thought it would be easier on my wrists (it was), and because I liked the idea of moving the right half of it away when playing a competitive first person shooter, which was actually useful when I was DEEP into Warzone (most games I play are not that sweaty).