Split keyboards feel wrong until they don't
Split keyboards feel wrong until they don’t. Then going back to a normal keyboard starts feeling wrong instead — your hands end up at shoulder width and you notice it every time you touch a laptop keyboard afterward.
I run a wireless Lily58, and the config lives in lily58-wireless-zmk-config. Unlike QMK, ZMK is built around wireless from the ground up, which means the config workflow spends real attention on power management and Bluetooth pairing behavior, not just the keymap.
The keymap itself is never really finished. It changes in small increments: a symbol that was one layer too deep gets promoted, two keys that were always pressed together become a combo, a rarely-used layer gets folded into something else. None of these changes are dramatic on their own, but they add up to a layout that fits how I actually type rather than how a default layout assumed I would.
The honest tradeoff: every time I change the keymap, there’s a day or two of being slightly worse at typing while my hands relearn it. That cost is real, and it’s worth paying less often than it’s tempting to.