originally published in August 2015

Last year, after many months spent in thinking, scouting the market and evaluating, I eventually bought myself a mechanical keyboard. I chose the CODE 87 model by WASD Keyboards, a keyboard designed and produced together with Jeff Atwood: it is a distillation of their ideas about how keyboards should be.

I never had a mechanical keyboard before, besides the old and glorious IBM model M back in the high school days, when I was using a PS/2 80286.

But I have a penchant for keyboards, and I thought I could appreciate the benefits I would gain from a more sophisticated construction.

I've now spent some months using the CODE Keyboard every day at work, so here my impressions.