This Keyboard Will Instantly Make You a Fantastic Programmer

Watch out, developers. A new wave of programmers is coming, and they use your tricks to take you out.

Martin Andersson Aaberge
4 min readJul 18, 2022
photo of the copy-paste macropad.
Photo by author

Programmers aren’t mathematical masterminds. They don’t sketch out solutions on paper. Nor do they discuss solutions with their peers and work as a team. Programming is simple. In fact, anyone can do it. You probably should too.

Forget everything you ever heard about agile frameworks, scrum, sprints, stand-ups, and QA. If you want to become a stunning programmer, all you have to do is acquire a single gadget that will do the job for you.

You see, the journey of a program looks like this:

Graphics showing how writing code works.
“How to write code” graph. Graphics by author

Introducing The Key V2

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. Greatest artists copy, then paste.
- TheKey V2

What originally started as a joke ended up as a big hit. Customers laughed at the device and added it to their arsenal as a fun gadget. Someone else was also laughing — namely Drop.com on their way to the bank. V1 sold over 10,000 units. At $29 a piece, that’s $290,000.

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Martin Andersson Aaberge
Martin Andersson Aaberge

Written by Martin Andersson Aaberge

CG supervisor with 20 years of experience in the Animation- and VFX industry. UX, Writing, Programming, Productivity. martinaaberge.collaboration@gmail.com

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