I was always a bit vary of using custom keyboard layouts just because you become so used to them. Although, of course, I very rarely type on other people's computers, so...
Thanks for sharing. I regret not to taken care of this aspect seriously and I am suffering. I started my programming career in 2013 and I am way behind. Off late when I think, typing is indeed a bottleneck and when neck hurts with wrong posture and incorrect usage, we can not learn faster in this fast paced programming domain. Thanks for resources and hope I will buckle up myself and get out of this neck pain soon.
Me too but I always wonder if having a custom key mapping is worth it, as with qwerty the special characters mostly used while programming are controlled by the little finger on the right hand:
-_+=)0[{]}\|
Imho this puts too much responsibility on one finger and this is where the most typos still occur for me..
Yup, QWERTY/ANSI. I know people with custom layouts that say it's really beneficial, but I haven't met anybody who has done it and types faster than I do, so...
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Aw thanks man! I'm curious: anything specific why it stood out for you?
I like the narrative arc.
I was shocked Dvorak didn’t make it into this story! Have you ever considered it? Absolutely life changing for me and relieved a lot of wrist pain.
I also assume you remapped caps lock to Ctrl, right?
I was always a bit vary of using custom keyboard layouts just because you become so used to them. Although, of course, I very rarely type on other people's computers, so...
Thanks for sharing. I regret not to taken care of this aspect seriously and I am suffering. I started my programming career in 2013 and I am way behind. Off late when I think, typing is indeed a bottleneck and when neck hurts with wrong posture and incorrect usage, we can not learn faster in this fast paced programming domain. Thanks for resources and hope I will buckle up myself and get out of this neck pain soon.
I assume you use qwerty?
Me too but I always wonder if having a custom key mapping is worth it, as with qwerty the special characters mostly used while programming are controlled by the little finger on the right hand:
-_+=)0[{]}\|
Imho this puts too much responsibility on one finger and this is where the most typos still occur for me..
Yup, QWERTY/ANSI. I know people with custom layouts that say it's really beneficial, but I haven't met anybody who has done it and types faster than I do, so...