If a feature falls in a forest

I have been working on an essay about how to gently get started and have fun with keyboard customization. I am finding myself surrounded by programmable keypads… …and I am going out of my way to try various new shortcuts and automations, big and small, just so I can write a helpful article. In Photoshop, one of the classic dialogs I use a lot when scanning things is brightness + contrast: It doesn’t come with a keyboard shortcut, so I mnemonically assigned ⌘B (for Brightness) to it. ⌘B is easier than using your mouse to select a menu option, but still tedious in the long run; every time I have to input brightness and contrast numbers, then click on Use Legacy which is not sticky, then realize that enabling Use Legacy inexplicably resets the values I just typed so I have to input them again… …which really isn’t as much fun 20th time in a row, 20th year in a row. So imagine my surprise when one day I invoked the dialog, and it came up looking this out of the box: It somehow remembered…