Behind the Scenes of Issue 28 Personal favorites. No more ads. Donor hall of fame. Most popular posts of the last issue. Future plans.
KBD.news Published May 24, 2021
Summary
After changing the domain name I removed ads and now I decided to keep kbd.news ad-free for good. Also, I've put up a dedicated page with the name of all the donors who supported this project at any of its stages. A look at the most visited projects from last week's issue, and some of my future plans revealed: revamp of the split database, logical layout design series and finishing the Azimuth.
Issue 28 personal favorites
I'm not a big fan of (non-split) ortholinear keyboards, but I do love thoroughly documented projects, so my favorite this week was the…
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Published on Mon 24th May 2021. Featured in KBD #28 (source ).
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