Whether you have been touch typing for years or are just learning the basics, many have a desire to measure and raise their typing speed. Because of this, there is a community built around competitive typing, with members competing against both themselves and others to be the best they can. This community’s members range from…
How to join the competitive typing community
Update: Travis CI shows software build status on the Das Keyboard Q
Want to make your keyboard all red when a software build fails? Read on. Travis CI makes it really easy to build and test code. It synchronizes with GitHub repositories to automate the build flow, from code pushes and pull requests, all the way to automatic deployment. It also has a great perk: it is…
How my Das Keyboard Q helps me boost productivity
Nowadays, most of us use multiple communication and project tracking solutions. This generates dozens, if not hundreds of daily notifications, often not very important. I work at Das Keyboard and I receive over 120 notifications a day, on my phone and my computer. This is a productivity killer. To remedy this, I configured the Das…
Wired rates Das Keyboard 5Q “Best Smart Keyboard”
Das Keyboard 5Q received another great review! Wired posted the “5 best keyboards for your workstation (or battlestation)” and rated the Das Keyboard 5Q best smart keyboard. It describes the Das Keyboard 5Q as a “formidable and well-designed” RGB keyboard, and highlights how connecting a RGB keyboard to the cloud makes sense. What’s the big…