Editor'south accept: The tech industry has go enamored with April Fool'southward Day as of late. By that, I mean nosotros are increasingly seeing more than and more gags existence developed into actual products. The latest instance comes courtesy of programming website Stack Overflow. It's not all that practical, just neat nevertheless.

This past spring, Stack Overflow ran a gag in which every fourth dimension a user entered the keyboard command to copy characters from the site, they'd become a pop-upwardly notifying them that they were almost out of free copies.

"If they wanted unlimited admission to copy and paste from Stack Overflow, all they needed to do was purchase The Key," said Ben Popper, managing director of content for Stack Overflow.

Lots of folks loved the gag, only several others also expressed interest in really purchasing The Cardinal. In response, the team gear up well-nigh quietly developing the product, which just went upwards for pre-order.

Stack Overflow teamed up with mechanical keyboard enthusiast Cassidy Williams and together, they took their idea to Driblet to develop a finalized product. The result is the $29 macropad you come across higher up.

The Key features three programmable keys outfitted with Kailh Box Black switches and comes with custom Stack Overflow-branded XDA contour keycaps.

The showtime batch of minimalist keyboards take already been spoken for, merely Drop is yet accepting pre-orders for a second wave that should exist ready by December. Notably, Stack Overflow is donating its portion of the proceeds to Digital Undivided, a nonprofit that supports economic growth among black and Latinx women entrepreneurs. Drop is besides donating five percent of its proceeds to the crusade.