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I had the same issue, and was told by an old school hacker friend to do the following: - Stop typing for a few days altogether - Get a Kinesis Advantage keybo
by dylanz 12y ago
I had the same issue, and was told by an old school hacker friend to do the following:
- Stop typing for a few days altogether
- Get a Kinesis Advantage keyboard
- Switch to the Dvorak keyboard layout
After a few months, I got rid of the Kinesis keyboard, and everything was back to normal. I never had any issues moving forward, and I attribute a lot of this to the use of Dvorak.
- WoodenChair 12y agoThanks for the rec. I am considering stopping typing for a few days. How many days did you stop for? Do you feel the Kinesis made a big difference? I feel like a big part of my problem may be the mouse actually - I spend a lot of time scrolling with the middle button and I'm actually only having pain in my right wrist/hand. I'm thinking of getting the Apple magic touchpad.
- gknoy 12y agoHave you also tried: - swap to off-hand mouse. - use pageup/pagedown/spacebar for scrolling at times - More/larger monitors, so that you don't have to scroll things or swap between things / re-cat things as often - Plan things with whiteboarding / talking rather than banging out code These won't eliminate RSI, but they might help alleviate the causes of it.
- WoodenChair 12y agoThanks yeah, pretty much do all of those.