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Matias Tactile ProHardware

by Matias

Who uses, recommends or left Matias Tactile Pro, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
loved

They've also got Matias TactilePro keyboards. Because if your typing doesn't sound like a hailstorm on a tin roof, you're not typing.

His Uses This interview, on terminal-centric habits and interactive fiction tooling.

2011-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

Journalist, editor and typesetter; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.
uses

A hard-action Matias Tactile Pro (FK302 model) that I use for everything except when I am taking verbatim or other notes while talking to people by phone or VoIP.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the writing, editing and publishing stack behind The Magazine.

2013-09-17·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.