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Cool idea, but how do I know you're not a Keylogger in disguise?

i think this should be open source

Interesting idea. Some feedback:

- I'm getting a lot of "colliding" of the sound, resulting in a really awful sound, when I type quite quickly - It works for mod keys, but not if I repeat the second key, e.g. Cmd+Tab then with Cmd held down, hitting Tab repeatedly. - When a key comes back up very quickly after traveling down, the sound is a bit odd; it should probably "cancel" or smooth out the up sound - as others have said, for something this trivial, it requires a lot of extra system privileges, would be cool to trial this first before requiring this (web version of video)

Personally, after the novelty wears off, it's not something I'd keep installed. But, beat tool, best of luck :)

Please add a toggle that inverts the function of the app and instead emits keyboard noise cancellation chirps.

Years ago, when a few of us were shifting from Atari 800s to PCs, a friend asked me to write a TSR to put an Atari 800-style key click out the speaker. I did so, but found it amusing; I'd wired a toggle switch in line with my Atari's speaker so I could turn it off.

a friend asked me to write a TSR to put an Atari 800-style key click out the speaker.

IIRC, on some PC clones? you could press a key combination to toggle an audible “click” that would be emitted from the built-in PC speaker on key down. (Or it might have been a feature of the keyboard?)

Does anyone else remember this?

So, the topic of this submission is a (probably unknowing) software recreation of something that existed in ROM 30-some years ago!

Yes, I remember this. We hated that click and always turned it off.

For Linux, there is also the famous IBM Model M simulator: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

Using it with my Cherry MX Blues is an almost symphonic typing experience.

I like my cherry browns because of the feel, not the sound. Clicky sounds is just a side effect that prevents me from using it elsewhere but my home office.

It may make the sound, but with a bit of latency. And it won't make rubber domes not feel like garbage. Hell, not even the new "membranical" keyboards can make rubber domes not feel like garbage.

Any love for Windows?

Ugh, its 2018. Why no web version?

Given what it does, why (how, even?) should this be a web app

"The sound is a form of feedback. On modern laptop keyboards there is so little feedback that every bit counts. The sound is like a reassurance. It’s your computer telling you, yes, you did indeed hit that key."

Oh, feedback like say...

* a character appearing on the screen?

-or-

* the action you were attempting to effect happening

I have a few twee coworkers who insist on using these obnoxious things. Worse even than the physical keyboards, and their arguably beneficial tactile feedback, this is exclusively the worst attribute of these. Why would anyone who isn't basically cos-playing on a computer want this trash?

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