Dvorak keyboard layout for the family - the Post Script

P.S.

I first envisioned this as one big post about everything I have done recently with keyboards, and particularly motivated by wanting share Linux deep-diving to custom udev rules. (Recently laid off as part of west coast "plant closure"...wanted tangible examples of experience/skills that are not entangled with past employers' intellectual property...hmm, create a GitHub profile README?...what would I put in there? Link to my blog...but I have not added anything to that in a long time...hey, I've done some really nerdy/low-level Linux stuff with this keyboarding...maybe a quick bit about the udev rules for being able to configure it from kiddo's raspberry pi...outline for the post ballooned to many bullet points, with sub bullet points...but I just read my first blog post on "why blog" and the point was to release things quickly / in a state I would not consider "done" or polished...so maybe each of the outline bullet points could be its own post, and they could all be held together with a label `keyboard`...and that would let me do the intro to this keyboard series then skip ahead to the udev rules bit...or maybe I even skip over the intro (the "why I am going to be talking a bunch about keyboard stuff", now that this P.S. that I started writing first has grown to more than one phone screen's length (so probably long enough for a blog post, especially according to my guidelines for my blog).

Yeah, I think a PS post to start the series is a perfect match for the casualness I intended for my blog, and a short cut back to the udev topic. Now to go update my LinkedIn to point to my GitHub account, which needs an updated GPG key (I think I set an expiration on the one I was using when I was experimenting with that last, before taking a pause on realizing that GPG agent forwarding from Windows (mandated operating system of employer at the time) was going to be one more hurdle to GPG signing git commits (this was far enough back that I would not be able to count on a new enough `git` version on the remote systems I would be gitting on to have ssh key based commit signing)) so I can sign the initial commit on my GitHub profile repo, because that really feels like one I should have the "verified" checkmark on every commit.

P.P.S.

Does it still count as a Post Script if you write it first?

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