I had a similar pain problem that affected my back, neck, arms, wrists and fingers. I ended up having to cut out most carbs from my diet to reduce the inflammation that was causing the pain. No breads, rice, beans, starches, bad sugars, etc. It's been more than 2 years now, and I've have zero pain whatsoever since I started that.
What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
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#172A coder does two things: * He gets this Keyboard: https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/ * He reads this blog: https://www.thepaleomom.com/start-here/the-autoimmune-protoc... And fixes himself...
That's a rather long advert, do you perhaps instead have links to something less "BUY MY BOOK! SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER! SUBSCRIBE!" and a little more scientific research?
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's incredible! Does it work with any programming language?
Right now it works best for python. We’ve got early versions of JavaScript and Java out too. We’re also releasing HTML and CSS soon.
It would be easier to implement something like this for Lisp.
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#174I developed an RSI a few years ago, and I had to leave my job. It was devastating to lose both my career and my passion to an injury. Since then, I've been working with a friend on a new voice coding app called Serenade [1] that aims to enable anyone to program by voice. With Serenade, you can speak natural English voice commands like "delete second function" and "add class person". Not only can this be faster than t…
I just emailed you, this definitely looks promising!
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#175Switching to Dvorak saved my career. It forced me to type extremely slow for awhile, which helped my pain subside. I haven't had a problem since. Qwerty is such a terrible layout.
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#176I was fortunate my first job out of college was a large defense contractor. The last thing they do to get your cube set up is take your measurements and set the desk, keyboard, monitor and seat heights appropriately. I’ve been using those measurements ever since.
I was also fortunate to have taken an entire year of typing in high school. Not only did I get my wpm over 90, but the teacher was a stickler on posture and hand position. That discipline has stuck with me 25 years.
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#177That story of how the doctors just dismissed her pain as delusion is terrifying. Doctors are supposed to be people of science, but one of the very fundamentals of science is to acknowledge that you don't know everything, that your current knowledge is just a theory that can be improved upon. I find there's a tendency among doctors to think they know every possible disease, and if someone comes along with one that doe…
I suspect anti-american bigotry by the British doctor.
It is a cliché that Americans are hypochondriac* (especially women) so I can imagine some stuck-up British guy being so completely unprofessional and damaging.
* Why is it not HYPERchondriac? I wish medicine would replace hypo with another prefix: how many deaths and how much damage occurs by miscommunications due to mixups of opposites? Edit: hypochondrion means "below the cartilage" where the Greeks though the "seat of emotion" organ was - arrrgh.
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#178I have a very similar issue. I tried to use Vocola and it worked for a while but then i kept straining my voice. I recently had to quit school because I've strained my voice and hands too many times to count. But its not just my hands anymore. Anything that involves any amount of real effort for more than a few minutes usually ends up injuring a muscle group. Has anyone successfully come back from something like this…
Things that can help with voice strain:
- take breaks
- stay hydrated
- tea with licorice root (Yogi brand: Throat Comfort is one example)
- speech/singing coach (I have not tried this yet, but apparently it can help a lot)
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#179Only for Mac...
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#180This won't help anyone who has lost the use of their hands, but I have some advice for touch typists who use a standard keyboard like a laptop or typical desktop keyboard: don't bend your wrists. Of course most people know about the ergonomic advice to have your keyboard at the right height so your wrists don't have to bend up or down. But I often see people typing with a horizontal bend in their wrists so that their…
The biggest change that helped when I developed temporary RSI when playing video games in my mid-teens was learning and switching to Colemak. Natural keyboards (Microsoft-style) helped a bit, but the curved Kinesis Advantage really taught me that you should try to never raise your keyboard angle, and instead keep the keyboard flat at a height where your fingers rest on the home row, wrists straight and naturally held…
Kinesis Advantage was a game changer for me too. But when I type on my laptop for a day or two the pain is back. The pain also depends on the stress level, because it seems that I type with more tightened fingers (as is the whole body as well).