Clearly, its the tap dance feature within open source firmware, QMK, that is rising in popularity. People just want to be able to double tap and tap and hold for extra functionality on their keyboard and trackballs.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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So relieved I wasn't the only one thinking this
Damn I need a qmk compatible keyboard
Don't forget the trackball!
If they have vial compatible (qmk) firmware then you can configure the tap dance from the gui rather than having to customise and compile your own key map.
Not to be confused with via, which doesn't support tap dance.
If you want to check it out for yourself:
my niece and nephew, both less than 10, do tap.
I think the nephew does it because he is the only boy in the group of about 30
hehe that kid is gonna be a heartbreaker
Some boys are born with an innate sense of game
Reasons I took choir in highschool. 100+ girls, maybe 20 guys. And facing a full length mirror the entire class.
Ours was very mixed with boys and girls. It was the easiest required fine at credit to get in order to graduate. The art class at our School sucked. It was more like an art history class and you had to write more papers than English class.
Via Tom Scott's newsletter, an explanation of a strange ngrams anomaly in an xkcd. Why is the 11th of all months apparently the least popular date?
That was really cool, worth a post of its own, thanks for sharing!
Ah 0.0000something percent change on the scale. I love misleading graphs formats!
Huh, desktop shows the y axis values but I don't see them on mobile.
If he knows how to search for Google trends, he should know how to use Google Maps to locate local dance studios that teach tap dancing, which do indeed exist.
Judging by his outfit, he's already learned how to tap dance. He's looking for a place to do it.
And a dance studio is the place! I don't think even back in the day they had places you could just walk in and tap dance without some sort of permission to use the space first.
There's the figure of speech "to tap-dance around (a topic)" meaning to make concerted effort avoid talking about a particular topic all the while talking about many things that are adjacent to that topic. It's usually to avoid coming across as offensive or ignorant in some way.
The underlying cause and/or whether a bit more knowledge on the part of the speaker could render the dance unnecessary is highly contextual (and mostly irrelevant here), but nevertheless, people tap-dance around topics all the time. (The previous sentence might even qualify as an instance.)
So, the question is: How much contribution to this n-gram is people pointing out that someone is, or was, tap-dancing around a topic?
I’ve heard people say “dancing around” a topic but I’ve never heard of anyone include the word tap in that
I have, and my experience is objective and universal, sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯