Glad to hear that :)

> Where's your shift key, though?!

The main shift key is on the left side, below the "Esc / Ctrl" button. Additionally I have a secondary shift key on the opposite side that is activated when holding it pressed, but I actually never use the secondary shift key, only the main shift key. Same with right hand side ctrl, I never use that one either, and layer 3 is empty so I don't use the activation key for layer 3 either. Other than that I use all of the buttons on layer 0.

The other layers have quite a few keys that I don't use however, so I should probably update my config to reflect that.

While I am at it I am going to rearrange the Fn keys a bit, because I always struggle to remember where I put F12 exactly so I end up counting from the known position of F1 up to key F12. And the situation where I need F12 of course is when I am going to do something in BIOS/UEFI settings on some computer and like you know you only have like 2 seconds to press the correct key :P So I should make it so that I have F12 at the natural position that is the very top right corner.

Actually, let me go ahead and do that now real quick.

Here: https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/ergodox-ez/layouts/PBKjJ/Zq...

This one now has the unused keys removed, and layers 1 and 2 merged, as well as the () and {} and [] quick-access keys repositioned because while I've been using the [] and the {} quick-access keys a lot I've been a little bugged by my choice of position for them. After making the modifications above I flashed that config to the ErgoDox, meaning that what you see there is matches exactly what I use which is now all that is on my ErgoDox and none of the keys that I thought might be nice to have but which I never use :)

> Regarding stenography for coding, I will probably only use stenographic typing for software documentation (prose). The main use for stenographic typing will be blog posts, emails, HN comments, etc.

I see, makes sense.

> With the ability for the Ergodox EZ to emulate a serial port , I can use Plover+Ergodox EZ as layer 1, say, and Dvorak as layer 0, without needing to change anything at the OS or application level when I do this (Dvorak will be seen as a USB HID which Plover won't see and steno-mode will be seen as a serial connection, which gets processed by Plover and forwarded to the OS).

You have me convinced. I do type quite a lot of prose text too, and I knew vaguely that someone was using the ErgoDox EZ for stenography, but I didn't know how and I didn't know that Ergodox EZ could emulate a serial port. Do you have any links about how to set this up for Plover with the ErgoDox EZ? Otherwise I am sure I will figure it out eventually :)

Edit: Actually, tab is missing from the layout in the web UI for some reason. Put it back in place and changed the link in this comment to point to the version that has tab put back in place.

Edit 2: Made some small adjustments to the positions of some of the keys and flashed the modified to my ErgoDox EZ. Updated link and some of the text in this comment surrounding that link.