The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building customizable ergonomic keyboards (Interview)
Thu, 12 Sep 2024
Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard...we cover it all.
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What's up, friends? This is The Change Law. We feature the hackers, the leaders, and those who are creating open source ergonomic keyboards. Yes, today we're joined by Eris Zuckerman, one of the fine folks behind Ergodox EZ that kickstarted this whole thing off.
Ares shares his journey of creating customizable keyboards, creating ZSA, the company behind it all, the benefits of split keyboards, customizable key layouts, repairability and longevity, the right to repair, community engagement, his attention to detail in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard. We cover it all.
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So, Dave, I know lots of developers know about Sentry, know about the platform because, hey, we use Sentry and we love Sentry. And I know tracing is one of the next big frontiers for Sentry. Why add tracing to the platform? Why tracing and why now?
When we first launched the ability to collect tracing data, we were really emphasizing the performance aspect of that, the kind of application performance monitoring aspect, you know, because you have these things that are spans that measure how long something takes.
And so the natural thing is to try to graph their durations and think about their durations and, you know, warn somebody if the durations are getting too long. But what we've realized is that the performance stuff ends up being just a bunch of gauges to look at. And it's not super actionable, right?
Sentry is all about this notion of debug ability and actually making it easier to fix the problem, not just sort of giving you more gauges. A lot of what we're trying to do now is focus a little bit less on the sort of just the performance monitoring side of things and turn tracing into a tool that actually aids the debug ability of problems.
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