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This kind of work is also fantastic for those who have limited mobility or use of hands. On top of that, it's also a comforting peace of mind for the rest of us
by dag11 4y ago
This kind of work is also fantastic for those who have limited mobility or use of hands. On top of that, it's also a comforting peace of mind for the rest of us that should we ever e.g. lose our hands in a car collision, we might still have a successful path forward in our programming careers and passions.
Reminds me of a talk I once saw where a developer developed arthritis and couldn't program effectively anymore, so he developed an almost "verbal vim" plugin for vim (or was it emacs?) that allowed him to write/edit code quickly using verbal utterances. I forget what that project was, but I wonder how these two compare.
- kingcoleman 4y agoI was very inspired by a blind programmer who uses text to speech at inhuman speeds. https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/03/27/autobiography-blind-programmer/ https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/03/27/autobiography-blin... That's perhaps an extreme example of what is possible but it's incredible what people can adapt to.
- jffry 4y agoAre you thinking perhaps of this [1] PyCon talk by Tavis Rudd, who had RSI and a rotator cuff injury? He demos a voice command system that's all short nonsense syllables, including with a few humorous video clips interspersed, and then explains it after the demo. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI (demo starts 9 minutes in)
- sterlind 4y agoCursorless is indeed fantastic for this! I used it extensively last winter/spring when I couldn't type.