Misha sent him a link. Not to a GitHub repo or a launchpad page. To a Gist. Raw text. No stars, no forks, no comments. The filename was punto_ghost.py .
One day, Alexei received an email. The sender: a Yandex engineer. The subject: "Your Punto implementation." punto switcher linux
He started dreaming in mixed layouts. In his dreams, he typed "Hello" and it became "Hелло," a grotesque hybrid that made him wake up sweating. Misha sent him a link
On day 28, Ubuntu pushed an update. A new version of the X11 record extension. Something changed. The script stopped working. Raw text
Then he hit send without once looking at the keyboard layout.
# This works. No warranty. No support. # If you break your keyboard, keep the pieces. # -- anonymous, 2019-11-03 # PS: To enable sound, uncomment line 612 and install sox. Alexei copied the script. He installed dependencies: python3-xlib , sox , xdotool . He ran it from a terminal.
Then he switched to Linux.