Behind the Scenes of Issue 43 Keyboard vendor database, new promo codes, moving, MOMOKA Frogs save the day, pearls cast before swine (me).
KBD.news Published September 13, 2021
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So it seems people are back from their holiday and more open-source projects are published. Stumbling upon the Zephirum was especially heartwarming because it seems making it open-source was motivated by Keyboard Builders' Digest. Cool!
Keyboard vendor database
I don't want to repeat myself too much.
I published a new tool on Thursday: https://kbd.news/vendors
And I've written about the public part here: https://kbd.news/Keyboard-vendor-database-968.html
But there was a lot of things going on behind the scenes and it seems it started some kind of chain reaction. Let me tell about you this now.
So it all started maybe 2-3 weeks ago when…
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Published on Mon 13th Sep 2021. Featured in KBD #43 (source ).
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