ellie@princess: ~
ellie.tty terminal princess

ellie@princess ~ $ ls ~/series/firmware-incidents

cd ../series

~/series // Firmware incidents

Keyboards, embedded systems, vendor binaries, and other occasions where perfectly good hardware developed software opinions.

part 1| 2026-06-21 ~/fieldnotes

The pink keyboard firmware incident

Buying a keyboard because it is pink is a perfectly reasonable engineering decision. Anyone who disagrees has never spent eight hours a day communicating with a …