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whitep4nth3r.com
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| | | | | Struggling with severe hand pain, I learned to code by voice. This is my journey with Talon and Cursorless, plus practical tips for hands-free development. | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | Update 2026-06-06 - Spencer's post is better than mine: https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/10/4583/ (Added 2019-03-19.) The web contains much information about wrist pain, RSI, carpal tunnel syndrome etc. Most of it suggests that it comes from repetitive small movements, such as typing. It warns about dire consequences, and recommends improving workplace ergonomics, stretching and doing other exercises. This is helpful when the cause of the pain is physiological. For other people the repetitive movements are harmless, but stress is the primary cause of the pain. For these the common advice, although no doubt given with good intention, can lead to a vicious cycle of pain causing stress causing more pain. I don't know the proportion of the two groups, but I... | |
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mdlayher.com
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codewithoutrules.com
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| | | If it hurts to type you'll have a much harder time working as a programmer. Yes, there's voice recognition, but it's just not the same. So when my wrist and arm pain returned soon after starting a new job I was starting to get a little scared. The last two times this happened I'd had to take months and then years off from programming before the pain went away. Was my career as a programmer going to take another hit? And then, while biking to work one day, I realized what was going on. I came up with a way to test my theory, tried it out... and the pain went away. It's quite possible the same solution would have worked all those years ago, too: instead of unhappily working as a product manager for a few years I could have been programming. But before I tell y... | ||
