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I'm getting intense deja vu reading this. I remember a very similar article from 3-5 years ago. Even the title feels like I've seen it before. I thought this wa
by mtlynch 1y ago
I'm getting intense deja vu reading this. I remember a very similar article from 3-5 years ago. Even the title feels like I've seen it before. I thought this was a repost from that one but I remember the previous post had a photo of the author's desk with a keyboard, desktop, and no monitor.
I tried searching algolia, but I can't find it.
- Ndymium 1y agoIt was quite likely this one: https://www.vincit.com/blog/software-development-450-words-per-minute https://www.vincit.com/blog/software-development-450-words-p... Sadly the audio samples are gone. I'll need to pester someone to fix that.
- mtlynch 1y agoYes, that's the one. Thanks! And thanks for writing it, assuming you're the author.
- Ndymium 1y agoI'm not, the author was my colleague at the time. I can only hope to be half as brilliant as him.
- rovr138 1y agoFirst time I saw it was here, https://boingboing.net/2017/08/28/this-blind-software-developer.html https://boingboing.net/2017/08/28/this-blind-software-develo... It has the audio samples in case it's useful
- mdaniel 1y agoI thought you meant they were 404, but no, it seems there's no markup to even attempt to link them. What's strange is that all the copies in Wayback that I spot checked all the way back to 2022 also didn't have any markup, so I suspect it never(?) did
- Vinnl 1y agoIt looks like it's not the article you were looking for, but there was also this similar article about one of the original authors of NVDA, who hits 900 WPM, also including an audio sample: https://www.9news.com.au/national/the-secret-language-only-blind-people-can-understand--and-its-not-braille/667eca67-a032-497e-a8fe-2bfd0d57e1c7 https://www.9news.com.au/national/the-secret-language-only-b...