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Beyond Binary Input: The Engineering Cost of the Analog Keyboard Paradigm Shift The recent market discounting of premium peripherals, such as Razer’s Huntsman V3 Pro, signals more than a standard retail cycle; it marks the commoditization of a fundamental shift in human-computer interface (HCI) technology. For decades, the mechanical keyboard market operated on a binary paradigm: a copper leaf made physical contact, closed a circuit, and triggered a hardware interrupt. The rise of analog optic
"We'll clean it up later." In my last post, I wrote about the hidden complexity behind simple products. The short version: great software feels effortless because someone chose to carry the complexity for you. This post is about how engineers learn to carry it. Not through frameworks. Not through tools. Through a small set of laws that keep showing up, decade after decade, in every codebase and every team. Most of them were written before I was born. All of them are still true. I found a wonderf
Last year I was made redundant from an NHS role. Around the same time, the team I worked in got a "new system." Everything that used to live on paper — or, honestly, in something that behaved like a shared Excel sheet — was going digital. I was still employed during the first few weeks of rollout, so I watched it happen. And the thing I remember most clearly is that it didn't make anything better. The forms moved from paper to screen, and that was more or less the whole story. The same duplicati
Sentence segmentation—splitting text into individual sentences—is a foundational step in most NLP pipelines. It seems simple, but as anyone who has worked with real-world text knows, the details matter. Abbreviations like Dr., URLs, ellipsis, and complex punctuation can trip up even well-intentioned rule-based systems. spaCy's built-in Sentencizer is a fast, lightweight, rule-based component designed for this task. However, by design, it makes a trade-off: speed and simplicity over accuracy on e
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