Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ...
by thanato0s on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:33AM
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I see a problem here: I'm not obsessing not using the mouse. There are some very loud people out there who are dogmatic anti-mouse. As a result, everybody speaking about a keyboard-oriented system is considered as a dogmatic.
It's not my case. I just think that when you deal a lot with text, like a developer, letting your hands on the keyboard is way nicer, instead of switching all the time between keyboard / mouse.
But I love to use the mouse when I'm on Gimp, or when I do some music, or when I post process some photos. You should use the best tool depending on the task.
Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ...
by beastcoast on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:22PM
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Firefox keyword searches are the way to go - you can setup URLs with arbitrary %s variables and go directly to the results page for a given tool. I have one or two char shortcuts for my most commonly used tools setup and my productivity exploded. With bookmarklets you can embed JavaScript and do things like implement parameters or loop through lists of search terms with each term opening a new tab. Seriously one of the most underrated tools available for anyone that has to use web tools all day.
Browsing code is easy to do with a keyboard - not sure I see how a mouse would improve things.
Browsing web: Firefox has since forever let you go to and open a link by typing a few characters in the link. I'll grant I don't always do it this way, but it is quite fast - unless the link is an image or something.
Finally, if you're one of those people who've had ergonomic pains, then avoiding the mouse can really help (depending on what the pain is).
But yeah, obsessing over not using a mouse is taking it a bit far.