How I messed up by accidentally replaying all my keystrokes from the last few days

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Nerf dynamic macros (how I messed up by running one that has been recording for days) ยท Issue #595 ยท jtroo/kanata
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After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I'd also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale. Also, I'd appreciate any tips as to what to check for in my system, it's a weird feeling to know that some stuff might have been messed up under the hood.

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Great one ๐Ÿ˜…

Glad you liked it! ๐Ÿ˜€
Being able to at least entertain people by sharing my misfortune makes it more bearable. ๐Ÿ˜‰

From your discussion with Kanata "two numpads as a makeshift cheap "split ortholinear" keyboard" I am curious to see a picture of this. If I misunderstood the posts and this is the Kanat guy saying this then oops, otherwise, this sounds interesting as a super-portable full-sized keyboard.

The idea was from here: https://nitter.net/redditmechbot/status/979515586467201024 (The original reddit post has since been deleted.), but imagine the same with the Genius Numpad i100, which can be had for around the equivalent of $10 here. ๐Ÿ˜€

This isn't long-term though, I just had it lying around and figured out how to make it work using evsieve to combine two keyboards into one and kanata to create the mapping. I am planning on building a piantor for myself, I just wanted to check if I could get used to an ortholinear 36 or 34 key layout, and so far it looks like I can adjust well.