1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a microcontroller of a human interface device (“HID device”) having a plurality of user-selectable actuators, textual configuration information indicating one or more actions to assign to a specified one of the plurality of user-selectable actuators; associating, by the microcontroller and based on the textual configuration information, the indicated one or more actions with the specified one user-selectable actuator; after the associating of the indicated one or more actions with the specified one user-selectable actuator, providing, by the microcontroller and responsive to user interaction with the specified one user-selectable actuator, one or more electronic signals representative of the indicated one or more actions to a computing system communicatively coupled to the HID device.