LINKDING

I ordered this keycap to replace my custom rocket keycap that I use for my hyper key. Available in 2.25u (Enter) size. It should arrive today and I'm very excited. I'll post pictures once I've installed it!

Simple and powerful keyboard enhancement on macOS. Want to add the Hyper Key with no fuss? Want to navigate your screen without touching your trackpad/mouse? This app looks really great at $16. h/t Mike Harahan on the [forum](https://forum.brettterpstra.com).

Inspired by my Jekyll plugin for the same purpose, a CLI to generate properly formatted keyboard shortcuts, including a KeyboardMaestro macro.

A new app showed up on Setapp ([direct link](https://setapp.sjv.io/c/1198576/1011331/5114)) that has me pretty excited. Paletro adds a hotkey palette to any app for accessing all of the menu commands. It's superior to using Command-Shift-? (Help search) because it has full fuzzy matching and can access commands usually only exposed by holding down modifier keys.

An excellent utility from the maker of HoudahSpot. It makes the process of assigning custom shortcuts to macOS application menu items a cinch, with autocompletion to help navigate menu hierarchies and get menu titles exactly right. It will even check for overlaps with ambiguous menu titles, and allow you to copy/paste shortcuts between applications, all things that System Preferences won't do for you.

From the Ulysses blog but not Ulysses-specific, a rundown of new gestures for text editing on iOS 13. Did you know there are 3-finger pinch commands for copy, cut, and paste? I didn't.

**Top story:** Karabiner Elements can once again provide the [Hyper key](http://brettterpstra.com/2012/12/08/a-useful-caps-lock-key/) we all loved before Sierra.

I've mentioned this iOS keyboard before (Android version available now), but it's worth mentioning again (and it's a winner of a Product Hunt Golden Kitty award). It's my absolute favorite replacement for the default iOS keyboard, with swipe typing, built in Google search, GIF search, emoji search (though iOS has this by default now) and other niceties that make it amazing to use.

For those who've upgraded to Sierra and are lamenting the loss of their Hyper Key (because Karibiner breaks in 10.12), here's a hack using Karabiner-Elements and Keyboard Maestro. Honestly, the escape key functionality of my original hyper key (tap for escape, hold for modifiers) has become so ingrained in my muscle memory that I'm happier doing a simple hack to make it just an escape key, and then using a basic key combo to trigger a Keyboard Maestro group with my old launching shortcuts.

I like this typing interface, designed for rapid typing with two thumbs. I'm sticking with [Gboard](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard-search.-gifs.-emojis/id1091700242?mt=8&at=10l4tL&ct=blog) (there's just too much good stuff there), but it's nice to see innovative changes to default typing styles.

Holy crap. A keyboard launcher built into Xcode.

You like mechanical keyboards? Here's a set of "typewriter" Cherry Blue keycaps, compatible with any Cherry MX board. That's right. A clicky typewriter for the modern era. What will these kids think of next?