Or you know, buy a gaming keyboard that has a ton of extra macro keys and besides those, the dedicated software can do way more then just the article says. Personally I love my gaming Razor keyboard/mouse, it allows me to do a lot more stuff then what's in article about Karabiner.
Perhaps, but Razer software is free and on top of that I'm lazy and accustomed with it already. I know it's a sin for HN crowd, so forgive me father :).
It's free for me. Same way iOS is free for iPhone and MacOS is free for Macs. I thought that's implied since I already paid for the hardware, but here you have it now, more clearly
A Razer Naga MMO mouse [1] has 12 thumb buttons (and a couple of others which are rather hard to reach). They are perfect for cut, copy & paste, and other frequent macros / actions. The vendor software is crap, though, especially on a Mac. It often forgets or messes up bindings and macros and you have to reconfigure them. I really got annoyed after doing this a couple of times and switched to SteerMouse [2] which lets you do almost everything the Razer software does, but in a nice and straight forward GUI.
No idea what are mine, they were a gift from a client as bonus for a project well done. And I got them in 2014. Just felt natural using them and the software as well and I just do my job with them on daily basis. No problems at all, not even a slight hiccup. Though my Mac programming is done in virtual machines, so Windows is still the software for keyboard in that scenario.
For me, with 10 macro keys on my keyboard and 4 on my mouse and combined with Razor profile on their software it means that depending on what I do I can:
1- On online RPG games like GuildWars1/2 I can press one macro key and a full chain of several keystrokes simulating skills with intended delays between them is send to the game. I don't even have all 14 macro keys programmed, most is 10 when I play monk (healer class).
2- For programming, depending on what I am in (Code view / Visual / SQL builder etc) I do use all 14 keys and combined with different profiles, I can type most used declaring prototypes / build a test form / write most common SQL queries - to the extent that I can press a few keys and the equivalent of several dozens of key presses are poured in, which allows me to be truly proficient.
Of course, all these are based on my experience and they piled up in years, but the end idea is the same - get a cross-platform IDE and you can create just as easy in Raspberry Pi as in Windows your applications.
