Books| Ben Frain
A solution! For many months I have been trying to find a decent solution to rounded gradient borders that allow a semi-transparent or blurred main background. Finally, I came across this: https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-to-make-a-css-border-gradient-with-transparent-background/571903/2 My pen https://codepen.io/benfrain/pen/KKEemKd is a fork of Lasse’s original from that post. I’ve not seen this approach before, and I can take no...| Ben Frain
You can watch the YouTube version of this review here: https://youtu.be/fVpinjluogQ I joined the Kickstarter for the Dygma Defy back in July 2022. A year and a half later hear we are. The Defy keyboard from Dygma, is a split, programmable, columnar layout, hotswap keyboard that you can use wired or wireless with either RF...| Ben Frain
I swapped out the switches in my Advantage360, my most expensive keyboard, and broke it. Want to watch the YouTube version? So, my advice is, if you’re thinking about de-soldering the stock keys of the Kinesis Advantage360, and soldering in your own, don’t. There, can’t be any clearer than that, can I? I broke my...| Ben Frain
If you’d rather watch a video version, you can watch it here The Glove80, from MoErgo, joins a growing list of split, programmable, ergonomic keyboards. So how does the Glove80 stack up against the likes of the Advantage 360 from Kinesis and the Moonlander from ZSA? The short version is, this is a very comfortable...| Ben Frain
When it comes to the web, I’m not a fan of sweeping ‘binary’ advice. The ‘don’t do this’ kind of advice is usually too simplistic, idealistic or inflexible; the Web is too grey. So when Tyler Sticka wrote “Seriously, don’t use Icon Fonts” I felt a little uncomfortable. I understand and appreciate some of the...| Ben Frain
This is a review of the Voyager from ZSA. It is a mechanical keyboard that costs over $350. It only has 52 keys, you can’t use MX switches in it, it doesn’t use Choc switch spacing, and it’s not even wireless. But I absolutely love it. By the way, you can view the video version...| Ben Frain
This is the written version of this YouTube review. This is a review of the Kinesis Advantage 360 Pro. A wireless, split, programmable ergonomic keyboard that cost around £550 to get my hands on here in the UK. Just let that settle in a minute. £550. For a keyboard. It doesn’t wash the dishes or...| Ben Frain
I used to build PCs for gaming about 20 years ago. I moved to Macs around 2001 and remained there until last year when I had a spell using a NUC system I loaded Fedora Linux on. Subsequently, I went back to using a Mac for my own work but recently decided I wanted to...| Ben Frain
If you are thinking of buying a M1 powered Mac and rely on fast, external, storage via a USB-C interface, you may want to reconsider. The Thunderbolt/USB-C ports on M1 Macs don’t work. They work to some degree, they just don’t work properly; they don’t allow attachment of many external USB-C enclosures. The same devices...| Ben Frain