There are lots of different form factors for mechanical keyboards. Which one you choose will depend on how you use your keyboard. I’ve listed them in descending order from largest to smallest, and you’ll notice how things get subtracted as the board gets smaller. Full-size: All the keys you’re used to, with numpad, arrows, function […]
Or, how to learn from my mistakes so you have a better time building your first mechanical keyboard. Why not just buy a pre-built keyboard, you idiot? Short answer: Because I already own one, and because I wanted to customize it. More honest answer: I need more desk space. I should explain. My bestest pal […]
It feels like today is either the 45th of April or the 273rd of January. All I know is that it’s a Tuesday and Ireland is (still) in lockdown. I no longer know how many days we have been in lockdown. It’s enervating. I haven’t wanted to write lately, or I have but I haven’t […]
Take nine strangers, with nothing in common but a love of words. Drop them in a country house in the Boyne Valley. Leave them there for a few days, surrounded by rolling pastures, with a soundtrack provided by a lawnmower, a whistling podcaster, some highly irritated cows, and infrequently-bleating sheep. Cellphone coverage is spotty, the […]
I got a text message at work on Thursday letting me know that a guy I used to work with had passed away suddenly. The message came late, after the funeral, when it was too late for me to show up for him and say goodbye properly. This morning, I hauled my lazy ass out […]
I work with a bunch of wonderful, creative people, and we decided that this year we all want to make time to flex some of the creative muscles we don’t get to use at work. We’ve been doing writing exercises in a few of our weekly meetings, and this week I got to wear the […]
Look at me, turning up again like the bad penny I am. If you’ve ever had to listen to me meander on about writing (in a non-work, possibly NaNoWriMo capacity), you’ll be aware that I’ve been noodling around with a post-apocalyptic concept for a few years now. I keep tackling it from different angles, trying […]
Because I lucked out and got a new job, I’ll be blogging more sporadically than usual for the next while. I haven’t been vaporized, abducted by aliens or placed in cloud storage. I’m just headed back to Galway, without my PC. I should be back posting randomness once I’ve found myself a permanent abode and […]
Aliceshortcake and the Green Shore Conundrum Recently the Absolute Write Bewares, Recommendations & Background Check board has played host to an investigation into a dodgy-seeming “publisher” that popped up on the internet offering a portfolio of (expensive) services to authors in the UK and Irish markets. Over a couple of weeks, the intrepid aliceshortcake (who […]
Yes, I know I haven’t posted in a while (bad blogger, bad), but that’s because I’ve been playing video games actually writing for a change. I’ve hit a bit of a wall with my novel, so I’ve been futzing about with some short stuff in order to keep writing regularly. Messing about with different genres […]
