Re:As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a n...
by dalmo3 on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @04:40PM
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Interesting. For me it's the opposite, e.g. just changing keyboard layouts between pc and mac breaks my brain hard, and I feel useless.
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Re:As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a n...
by jahsome on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @05:51PM
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I experience similar and I think of discomfort tolerance like a muscle. The more I (am forced to) use it, the less strain I experience when using it.
I am naturally prone to optimizing friction away--autistic engineer--but have come to realize regularly putting myself in uncomfortable positions professionally and personally works for me as a form of exposure therapy.
Nowadays, in the event I'm thrust into such an unfamiliar situation against my will, I'm still functional.
An enormously valuable knock on effect was coming to the realization the things I enjoy most in life are those which have been a surprise, and I would have simply avoided weren't I being intentional in pushing my own boundaries.
Re:As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a n...
by tonyedgecombe on Thursday May 29, 2025 @05:07AM
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When I was dual booting my Mac between macOS and Windows I used to swap the keyboard and mouse at the same time. I found it helped with handling the differences between the two operating systems.