A new keyboard, a set of custom keycaps and the start of an addiction

Simon Theakston
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readSep 7, 2023

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Photo by Jay Zhang on Unsplash

About a year ago I started to get into Mechanical keyboards. I wrote an article on how I quickly fell in love with the first keyboard I bought — a Keychron K7.

It was a low-profile board that was only 65% of the size of a standard keyboard. As such, it was easy to take with me everywhere and, given its Bluetooth functionality, I could switch…

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Simon Theakston
ILLUMINATION

I write about the skills, growth and businesses that I'm building. And the technology that is supporting me in getting there.