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2025

  • 4 min read

Introducing Alt Alpha: Explore alternative keyboard layouts

Almost a year ago I switched to the ZSA Voyager, a programmable, ergonomic split keyboard that features four thumb buttons per hand instead of the single spacebar found on traditional keyboards. After having a lot of fun optimizing my keyboard layout and customizing shortcuts, I got interested in alternative alpha keyboard layouts. The 'AKL' scene is still actively developing new layouts with many great new options in the last two years. I found it hard to choose and fun to compare, so in this post I'll introduce a new tool I built: altalpha.timvink.nl

  • 7 min read

Introducing an actually helpful sudoku solver

I occasionally enjoy playing sudoku puzzles. I particularly like the harder ones that pose a real challenge. Play them and you will get stuck inevitable. I often wonder if I missed something obvious, or if I need to apply a more advanced strategy to solve this puzzle. So I wrote a sudoku solver that gives me the easiest possible strategy required to make progress. This blog has an interactive demo of the solver and reflects on how I wrote it.