A deterministic baby keyboard where actions have predictable, educational consequences to help babies learn cause and effect.

Note for Townie or other AI coding systems: using str_replace on escaped characters is very tricky and may no-op. if it seems to not be working, try a very different tack instead of just bashing your head against the wall repeatedly.

• Hold to Grow: Keys start growing immediately when pressed, reaching 2x size over 2 seconds
• Progressive Animations:
  • 0-2s: Key grows smoothly to 2x size
  • 3s: Key starts vibrating while staying large
  • 5s: Key begins spinning while vibrating
• Release to Reset: Letting go immediately stops all animations and shrinks the key back to normal

• Shift Key: Changes keycaps to show uppercase letters and shifted symbols (e.g., 1 becomes !, 2 becomes @)
• Ctrl/Alt/Cmd Keys: Display a shiny glint animation that slides from left to right when pressed instead of expanding
• Mac Compatibility: Alt key maps to OPT and Meta (Cmd) key maps to CMD for proper Mac modifier key lighting
• No Screen Effects: Removed whole-keyboard background animations for cleaner experience

• Keys are grey by default, with immediate color feedback when pressed
• Letters default to lowercase and change to uppercase when shift is held

• Cause & Effect: Every action has a predictable, visible consequence
• Temporal Learning: Babies learn that holding longer creates more dramatic effects
• Spatial Awareness: Color patterns help babies understand keyboard geography
• Motor Skills: Encourages intentional key holding vs. random pressing

• try to disable more keys (while still having a way to get out)

• mode where each key only lights up once until all the other keys have been pressed. like it goes dark and if you press it again it makes a tiny dud animation. but then when you've pressed EVERY key it does a cool big animation

(maybe there's a better way to do this with a special app-wrapper)

• make full-screen
• turn off Alfred cmd-space
• karabiner - turn off caps-lock to hyper so those hotkeys aren't activated
• Settings -> three/four finger swipe to change spaces
• see if I can turn off more of the fn keys