qmk_firmware VS keyboards

My "keymap" is in several files. Makes editing much easier. It's a bit dated, and not as tidy as my newer stuff, but the functional guts are here: https://github.com/moutis/qmk_firmware/tree/master/users/moutis

This is a link to my stuff on github. It's pretty old now, too busy to update, so it's just a snapshot in time and not exactly what I'm using atm, but it has all the essentials. I was using a lot of diacritics for some linguistics courses I was taking and designing Hands Down Layout to handle home row mods. To be fair, I don't use all the combos all the time, but those for the main layer and for the 10 key have been used a lot. I don't have any combos on the home row, mostly because of the mods, but also because I dumped my own attempt in hopes of hopping on Sevanteri's branch eventually.

Turned out quite a bit better than I thought it would. lol.You can find the KLA JSON file for Ingulish here.

You can find the (KLA JSON here)[https://github.com/moutis/qmk_firmware/blob/HD-Moutis/users/moutis/Ingulish.json]

I have custom alpha layers and extremely optimized symbol layers, combos and other features in my keymap. It is not designed for web development, but it is good for VIM and Java.

That made me think. If I would adapt Romak for 20 keys, it would be something like this:

But since you are a programmer, I invite you to check the fancy programmer features that I have implemented in my keymap. I still need to rework on the documentation, but you can take some inspiration from there if you decide to design your own.

Romak also has some very nice attributes, as do poqtea and uciea. I also find Canary to have a lot of merit.

There is also the unusual option to handwire a keyboard without soldering, as I did here, but the result might not be so reliable.

You can see my layout here.

I started my own layout, Romak, using BEAKL as inspiration, with similar objectives, mostly making it more suitable for my home language and reducing the load on pinkies and indexes, concentrating in the middle and ring fingers instead. Another thing I did was to remove the top row key from both the central and pinkie columns. Later I also removed the bottom row key from the pinkies.

My first handwired board checks all your requirements, and I have some pictures of the process, but it is not a complete guide. It might help though. And I think the FFKB case can be great for a first handwired project.

Really nice work, congrats. My custom layout is designed for both Portuguese and English, and I have some of the same ideas implemented, with similar reasoning. I also have some programming features that remind yours, but I preferred to remap hjkl instead.

I've used two different options in my builds. You can see them in the build logs: FFKB and Rommana.