I got it from Amazon on sale. Initially a friend had sent me the link to the red led only version but I figure if it has lights they might as well be useful so I upgraded to the full RGB version.

How it feels

I had never used a mechanical keyboard before so I didn’t know exactly what to expect. Well let me tell you expect to be pleased. The tactile and auditory feedback you get with each key press is completely worth the money. If you game or type it is completely worth the upgrade from a normal keyboard. It’s like having Heinz ketchup after a lifetime of Hunts.

Lighting

I am glad I spent the extra money for the full color spectrum; it is just straight up fun. There are enough lighting effects that it gives you incentive to keep typing to keep the lighting effects triggering. Secondly, color coding the keyboard for different games is great. It is helpful to have that visual aspect when looking at the keyboard to reorient yourself when playing. The one thing I wish this had done better actually programming new lighting sequences. The software is not as intuitive as it could be.

Macros

A macro is a macro and this keyboard does pretty much everything you’d want. It’s easy to program it using their software.  I haven’t gotten a chance to play an MMORPG with it, but that’s pretty much where macros shine.

All in all I am happy with the purchase. Being that this is my first mechanical keyboard I don’t know how the other switch types feel but since I liked this one so much I am now inclined to try them out at a Best Buy.  Not buy one there though, obviously.

This time I intend the results to be different and to think about the missteps I have made in the past that resulted in my blogs being, essentially, still-born.

Too Specific

Each time I had started a blog previously I had a very specific goal in mind.  Usually that goal was to write coding articles, discuss politics, or analyze non-fiction writing from an Objectivist perspective.  Each time I got bored.  This blog will not be so specific.

Now I don’t want this to be a place where I talk about what is going on in my personal life every day or post pics of what I am eating (it’s probably chicken wings).  I want this blog to be useful.  Useful to coders stuck on a problem or useful to an individual who feels like everyone else is fucking insane with their nonsense ideas.  So with that in mind, around half the posts will revolve around coding with the rest delving into philosophy and politics.  It’ll ebb and flow as the mood strikes me or as one of those topics becomes more relevant in my life.

Too Academic

I found that in my previous blogs I tried to write with a voice that wasn’t my own.  During my day…usually a lot… I find myself cursing or coming up with analogies to help explain what I’m thinking but in my previous blogs I strayed away from that to try and give an impression that I was professional or “above it.”  Well fuck that.  It’s not how I think, its not how I speak, so it shouldn’t be how I write.  Hopefully this means that my posts can come more frequently and easily and I won’t spend as much time rewriting my own words until they’re not.

Too Inconvenient

I had always blogged from my desktop at home before and I think this made it “a thing” I had to do at night after chores were done or between games I’d play.  WELL NOT ANYMORE.  I decided to forgo trying to write my own site or build my own blog software or any of the other insane things we developers try to do to avoid using someone else’s software.  This time I decided to go with a simple WordPress blog that I can install in one click and already has an app for my phone so I can write articles on my way into work or, more likely, while I’m on the toilet.  Nuggets of wisdom can drop while I drop other nuggets now.