I go through these phases being a dilettante in subjects, usually related to something computing related. This last two weeks I’ve been studying mechanical keyboards heavily. The Internet is full of random communities with interest in all kind of things.

I went into this thinking it would be awesome to build a custom keyboard. As a programmer, the keyboard is probably my most wielded physical tool. I had a Jedi Knight moment, thinking about keyboard building like the Jedi building their lightsabers.

With any random interest, there are people who care about these details of keyboard building. The amount of Reddit posts and YouTube videos waxing poetic about the subject. The sound of every keystroke; the feeling of the switch bottoming out; or the smoothness of the keypress.

It’s been fun but like everything I dabble in, I’m starting to lose interest though these things come in phases.