In the army coding academy, we has a 'surprise' excerise, where the commanders stole our mouses for a full 90 minutes, during which we had to solve a coding problem. It was frustrating as hell 😂
Maybe my aversion to shortcuts is because of that trauma.
I think it's just a matter of finding a middle ground. Some of them are super useful an…
In the army coding academy, we has a 'surprise' excerise, where the commanders stole our mouses for a full 90 minutes, during which we had to solve a coding problem. It was frustrating as hell 😂
Maybe my aversion to shortcuts is because of that trauma.
I think it's just a matter of finding a middle ground. Some of them are super useful and you should do 100% of the time (if I'll see a developer doing Copy using the right click of the mouth I'll probably throw up a little), but some are pretty niche. As you mentioned, it shouldn't be a 'forced' excerise, just picking up some common actions and slowly integrating it.
So basically I'm saying exactly what you said but with more words 🙃 (I just wanted to reinforce that point for junior engineers, no need to be a shortcuts freak)
I think changing the way you use your keyboard has to be something you decide and go all in.
I had this in 2 times.
The first one was when I wanted to write proper typing with the 10 fingers of my hands and not just the 4 to 6 that I was using. I felt stupid for a while, but I did it while on vacations.
For the second one, I remapped the arrow keys, backspace, and delete keys to have them closer so I don't have to move my hands. I did this at work and I was feeling very stupid for a long time. But I decided to use the new setup and don't look back. Otherwise, the habit is too big to break it.
Yeah, I think it takes that dedication to actually change such habits. But was it worth it? The small improvement in typing time for deeling stupid quite a while?
I think I just didn't have a good enough reason to go all in. I don't feel that writing takes such a huge part of my day - if I was a typist, or a writer, I would definitely go for it. But now, especially in a management role, most of the time I need to think, not write.
Typing with all fingers helped my ergonomics. Before I felt pain in my hands after some time, I wasn't using them properly
And remapping some keys made me not feel stupid with the little arrow keys in macbook built-in keyboard. I never hit them correctly and now I don't have to hit them anymore :)
In the army coding academy, we has a 'surprise' excerise, where the commanders stole our mouses for a full 90 minutes, during which we had to solve a coding problem. It was frustrating as hell 😂
Maybe my aversion to shortcuts is because of that trauma.
I think it's just a matter of finding a middle ground. Some of them are super useful and you should do 100% of the time (if I'll see a developer doing Copy using the right click of the mouth I'll probably throw up a little), but some are pretty niche. As you mentioned, it shouldn't be a 'forced' excerise, just picking up some common actions and slowly integrating it.
So basically I'm saying exactly what you said but with more words 🙃 (I just wanted to reinforce that point for junior engineers, no need to be a shortcuts freak)
I think changing the way you use your keyboard has to be something you decide and go all in.
I had this in 2 times.
The first one was when I wanted to write proper typing with the 10 fingers of my hands and not just the 4 to 6 that I was using. I felt stupid for a while, but I did it while on vacations.
For the second one, I remapped the arrow keys, backspace, and delete keys to have them closer so I don't have to move my hands. I did this at work and I was feeling very stupid for a long time. But I decided to use the new setup and don't look back. Otherwise, the habit is too big to break it.
Yeah, I think it takes that dedication to actually change such habits. But was it worth it? The small improvement in typing time for deeling stupid quite a while?
I think I just didn't have a good enough reason to go all in. I don't feel that writing takes such a huge part of my day - if I was a typist, or a writer, I would definitely go for it. But now, especially in a management role, most of the time I need to think, not write.
For me, both were worth it.
Typing with all fingers helped my ergonomics. Before I felt pain in my hands after some time, I wasn't using them properly
And remapping some keys made me not feel stupid with the little arrow keys in macbook built-in keyboard. I never hit them correctly and now I don't have to hit them anymore :)