The Making of Claveilleur

Now playing: Bad Apple!! Problem Being a polyglot can be painful sometimes. Particularly, it is extremely common for me to have multiple windows open at the same time, each using a different language: at this very moment, I have my messenger on where I participate conversations in Chinese, and I am writing this post in English at the same time in my VSCode window. As a result, with OS defaults, I have to switch between input sources (a.k.a. input methods) so often that I have even grown the bad habit of continuously pressing the fn key for… nothing at all. Assuredly, fn is more convenient than Windows PCs’ win + space, but wouldn’t it be much better if I don’t have to press any key? ...

August 3, 2023 · 10 min