My Workman Ergodox layout

After I finished my work on my Ergodox keyboard a couple of months ago I also decided to change my layout. I knew very little about the whole keyboard layout madness out there, only that there are some and all of them claim to be better than QWERT. So I changed to DVORAK because this was the first layout which poped up in my mind. But after some typing sessions my right pinky was really stressed out after a couple of "ls -ltra". I had to give up on DVORAK, so much was clear, because this "ls -ltra" issue was a change to the worse compared to QWERT. I've researched a lot, even calculating a unique  layout based on the regular stuff I'm typing. The result looked so alien that I didn't dare to try it.

I then found Workman and after reading his thoughts about it I thought that this is quite familiar with the situation I'm in and his approach of how a modern keyboard layout should look like, convinced my to use it.
I can only recommend it to give it a try. I practiced enough to do my daily job with it with only a small speed impact compared of QWERT.

So here is my layout for Ergodox keyboards.

There is one big thing that you can't avoid if you try learning a new keyboard layout. You will mess up your old one. The only advice I can give you is that you should use a different physical  keyboard. Like having a black one  for QWERT and a white one for WORKMAN. This will trick your mind and will anchor your brain to "oooh, that's the white keyboard. I need to type differently here".

Update:
Workman Firmware for Ergodox. Here is my firmware file