Projects

Current status: Waiting on custom plate (ordered October 9, 2025) Overview This is the build log for my custom electrocapacitive (EC) Geonworks F1-8X 722 mechanical keyboard. I purchased this board back in 2023 with the intention of building it as a standard Cherry MX board, but it ended up sitting unbuilt for a couple of years. Since then, I picked up a secondhand Topre Realforce 87u to get a taste of EC boards and fell in love with it; it’s currently one of my daily drivers at work. I’ve wanted to properly dignify it with an aluminum case, but aftermarket Topre cases are insanely expensive, especially on the second-hand market. I considered retrofitting the hardware into one of my other boards, but it would have required a custom plate, custom PCB (which were generally not available at the time), and potentially aftermarket replacement sliders and stabilizer housings if I wanted to use MX keycaps; really the only parts I’d get to use from the original board were the springs, domes, and switch housings. It felt like a huge waste to gut the board for only a few parts so I shelved that idea for a while. ...

I’ve been meaning to make something like this for a while- I have a lot of thoughts (too many, honestly) on the games, music, anime, etc. that I consume, but haven’t had a medium to share them through other than barrages of texts to friends that definitely don’t give a shit about whatever piece of media I just obsessed over for the last 24-72 hours. Initially I had planned to make a YouTube channel for the same purpose, but all the overhead of scripting, recording, re-recording, editing, and so on made that an unrealistic prospect. Same went for building a website from scratch- writing my own HTML and CSS would just take too long for my nonexistent attention span. A static site generator (Hugo in this case) is a perfect solution because I can just write my post in Markdown like it’s Reddit and it spits out a whole-ass web page with nice formatting and everything. ...