This document summarizes the speaker's customized keyboard and input methods. The speaker uses a Helix split ortholinear keyboard with QMK firmware, allowing full customization. For layout, they use Dvorak and a thumb-shift method for Japanese input. Karabiner-Elements allows using thumb-shift on macOS by remapping keys. The speaker concludes by encouraging customizing one's own keyboard and input environment.

1. My Keyboard
Situation
My Keyboard
Situation
ISOBE Kazuhiko
CloudNative inc.
CloudNative Winter Camp
2019-02-18

2. Common Keyboard
(Physical)

3. My Keyboard (Helix)

4. What is Helix?
"Self-Made" Keyboard
Development by owner of
"Yusha-kobo" (遊舎工房)
1st "Self-Made Keyboard Store" in
Japan
Opened at 2019-01-15

5. Pros of Helix
Split type
Ortholinear
Kailh Choc Switch (low profile)
QMK Firmware

6. What is QMK?
Open Source keyboard
firmware
Defact standard firmware of
Self-Made keyboards
Multiple layers
Macros
Play Audio, OLED Display, lighting
the LED, etc

7. Pros of QMK Firmware
Customize the key layout
freely
Multiple layers
Frequently used key
combination as one key

8. Common Keyboard
(Logical)
QWERTY layout
From Typewriter
Since 1882 (137 years ago!)

9. My Keyboard Logical
Layout
Dvorak layout

10. What is Dvorak
layout?
Patented during 1936 by Dr.
August Dvorak
Standard in Linux, macOS,
Windows OS
Probably, I used about 16
years

11. Pros of Dvorak layout
Less finger motion, reduces
errors
compared to the QWERTY
"AOEUI" On the left hand
home position
good compatibility with Roman
input of Japanese

12. Common Japanese
Ipnut Method
Roman character input
most people use
JIS Kana
Use Hiragana keys on JIS keyboard
Some people occasionally use it

13. My Japanese Input
Method
Thumb-Shift Input Method

14. What is Thumb-Shift
Input method?
Invented by Fujitsu in the late
1970s
On Japanese word processor named
'OASYS'
NiCOLA Layout

15. Pros Thumb-Shift IM
The number of keystrokes is
about 60%
Compared to Roman Charactor
input method
The most accessible 30 keys
on the keyboard
It can represent 90 characters.

16. How to use Thumb-
Shift IM on macOS ?

17. Karabiner-Elements !

18. What is Karabiner-
Elements?
Keyboard customizer for
macOS
Hook key input and convert it
It can manage states using variables

19. Pros Karabiner-
Elements
Make Thumb-Shift input
method available
Customize the key for each
applications
Change the behavior
according to the state of IM

20. ommit-nicola
The NiCOLA layout configuration

21. You Can't install
Karabiner-Elements?

22. Jamf Approved
Kernel Extension

23. How to get Team ID
of Kernel Extension
% sudo sqlite3 /var/db/SystemPolicyConfiguration/KextPolicy
sqlite> select team_id, bundle_id
...> from kext_policy
...> where bundle_id like '%Karabiner%';
G43BCU2T37|org.pqrs.driver.Karabiner.VirtualHIDDevice.v060800

24. Jamf Self-Service

25. Conclusion
You also customize the
keyboard and make the best
input environment!

26. Thank you !
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