When we were 16 years old my friend and I spray-painted our keyboards in camouflage colors. We had just seen Hackers, wanted to copy what we saw, and – yes, 16 years old – didn’t think much further than (1) get spray paint (2) spray-paint the keyboard. Only after the paint dried did we realise we can’t read the letters on the keys anymore and, well, guess we’ll have to now type blind.
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..
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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?
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..