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Hardware / furniture

- Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard (with QMK Stapleberg mod via Teensy microcontroller). This way I get the advantage of the extremely ergonomic keyboard + plus the benefit of it being highly configurable/programmable via C (QMK)

- adjustable desk

- ergonomic chair (got it second hand from a furniture store that buys from businesses that are closing down offices; essentially an 1.5k chair for $200 in good condition)

Software-wise

- learning vim/nvim (long term commitment but after a few years it starts bearing fruit and I’m more productive on it than any other tools I’ve used

- raycast (powerful, highly configurable Mac OS launcher)

- using a clipboard (I use the Raycast built in one; have a dedicated key for it)

- vimium (vim motions in browser)

- benefits of vim and vimium is that I don’t use mouse much and so my shoulder doesn’t hurt (from moving back and from from keyboard and mouse) and I don’t use the mouse scroller (biggest killer for hand pain for me)



yeah QMK is the best, i have a whole separate layer just to emulate a subset of vim movement using hjkl keys


Oh that’s interesting to hear. I do that too :D

Which emulator do you use or did you write your own ?




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