3 Key Claude

The Wooting UwU Stealth Edition: a black three-key keypad

I finally have done it! I have completely gotten rid of my keyboard. Gone are the days of trying to think I was cool with neovim, gone are the days of getting used to the home row: asdfjkl;'! Today, I speak, AI builds. And it’s all because of this cute little UwU keypad by wooting!

A while back I saw this tweet and immediately sent it to my buddy who got into the laziest habit I have ever seen - talking to his AI.

A tweet by @ThePeterMick reading "modern keyboard for software developers", with a photo of a two-key keypad: a microphone key and a Yes key

When I first saw him press fn on his mac and start talking, I laughed. It just felt so fucking lazy. I mean, Claude was already writing all of our code, did we really need to remove ourselves further? And then I saw the tweet - why not replace our keyboards too! We both laughed and went on with our day/week/month. But the idea stuck with me.

I love to give gifts, I’m bad with money, and giving gifts is my love language. And I thought, okay, what if I got him the keypad, just for shits and wiggles, a gag gift. So I started looking. I started looking in the place we all start - amazon. And boy, did I not like the offerings, everything easily searched for was cheap, not usb-c, or just shady as hell ( I don’t trust anything you plug into a computer ). Note, when I give a gift, I don’t insult my people with low quality anything - even for gag gifts. So I had my intern Claude, do some research for me - only two viable options came up: the TogKey Duo and the Wooting UwU - and due to the 3d printed cheap nature of the Duo ( see my last no-cheap principle ), I bought and shipped a UwU. But after I pressed buy, I decided to get two of my own ( see? bad with money ).

Fast forward a week, and my buddy got his first. I did not tell him, I got this for him, but I did send the following note:

It’s probably from your secret admirer, and they’d want you to know the following:

Keys:

Left - Wispr

Middle - Enter

Right - Tab Terminal

Ignore the “weebyness” of it ( or don’t ) it’s the best product without the security risk of shady amazon options.

He eventually found out who it was, gave me a call and already had his own setup. Hours later, I got my 2, and I was super impressed. The packaging, the fun random collectable keycaps, the carrying case and the actual keypad were very well done. I love the attention to detail. And then, I went to their website to set it up - I assumed there would be some downloadable bloatware ( which I was not excited for ), only to find out you can completely set it up and customize it all from the browser - FUCKING SICK! ( Note, this is not a sponsored post - but like, well done gents. ) I got it set up, played around and fell in love.

Now, this story would not be complete if it didn’t end in my compulsion to completely overengineer a solution to get the keypad to do exactly what I wanted it to. So, I set up a clean/fresh git repo ( one of my favorite feelings ) and got claude to work.

The plan was simple:

left key: activate Wispr - allows me to talk to Claude
middle key: hop and focus between claude code sessions
right key: “Enter”

So, I had Claude put together a mac app ( only using AppleScript and tools that ship with mac for maximum compatibility ) that extends the features of the keypad. I call it 3-Key Claude. Now my workflow is as follows:

The 3-key Claude keypad pressing talk, hop and confirm in turn

My entire AI workflow is now, 3 buttons. Let me tell you, it’s a game changer. I went from laughing at my buddy to completely assimilating - and it feels great. Oh, and guess what!? the UwU has three bottom buttons as well - and I’ve also made those into script macros ( that you can have claude help you set up. )

On my personal Computer:

bottom left: it ssh’s into my mac mini, finds my lego-legacy repo and starts a claude session - this is a data preservation effort I’ve been working on
bottom middle: opens up my blog editor
bottom right: tabs over to my RuneScape session where I am currently working on 99 sailing

I have even cooler/time saving macros on my work computer.

So. Here we are. From a gag to a full app and new workflow. All I can say now, is I fully endorse it. Great Job Wooting, thank you for the great product.

If you’d like to try this out yourself, check out the 3KC ( 3 Key Claude ) or make your own ( because software is cheap now )

Thanks for reading. I love you.