February 2024 – More professional engineering

A hack to use mouse actions in Via macros

By Peter Mortensen Posted on 2024-02-26 Posted in Macro keyboards, Mechanical keyboards, QMK, Software development, Via / Vial No Comments

The short version: A relatively simple hack enables mouse actions in Via. Seldomly used keycodes, e.g., for F23 and F24, accepted by Via, are converted to the keycodes for left click and right click just before macro execution. This breaks …

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Linux command-line snippet for absolute timestamps with subsecond resolution in ISO 8601 format

By Peter Mortensen Posted on 2024-02-06 Posted in Linux, Scripts and snippets No Comments

Use Sample output: That is sortable output, but a resolution of 1/100 second is probably sufficient. The output can be rounded by postprocessing. For example (properly rounded, not just truncated), Sample output: Notes: The enclosing single quotes can be left …

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Month: February 2024

A hack to use mouse actions in Via macros

Linux command-line snippet for absolute timestamps with subsecond resolution in ISO 8601 format