Remember WhatPulse?
I grew up in the nerdy corners of IRC and I remember WhatPulse was a huge thing back then. It’s essentially a keylogger, except instead of being used for malicious purposes, it just displayed a leaderboard of the top typers and mouse clickers. Being on the leaderboard somehow gave you street cred on the servers and channels that you joined, because it indicated you were one of the active users. Now, it’s branded as Productivity analytics for [...]. The site and apps are filled with all these charts and heatmaps of your keyboard, mouse, and application usage.
I’ve been wanting buy a new keyboard, and haven’t decided on a layout yet. I recently installed WhatPulse again just to track my keypresses. I have this irrational fear of losing my F keys, and I really just wanted to validate whether I use them enough to justify the F-row or not. I’ll be using it for the next ~30 days and hopefully it can give me enough insight.