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Does anyone actually use a 60% or less for programming work? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm more interested if any of you actually do work on a 60% or below, I see a lot of 40s and a lot of lemmings are devs so do you guys use that for personal or work? No arrow keys? F keys? Home/end? Are you really holding shift+fn+d for end?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I suppose I am behind the general programming meta on lemmy.. I use DB guis and vscode generally but I suppose I'd be forced to get better at my shortcuts/macros if I was using vim/neovim

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't compare yourself to the rest of the comments. If your setup works for you then it's a good setup.

If you're interested in becoming more keyboard driven, start with learning vscode/db gui shortcuts for things that you do a lot: executing queries, jump to definition, or renaming variables, etc.

We're all on our own journey as cringe as it may sound. Mine was due to wrist, thumb, and shoulder pain rather than being super productive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the kind words. I try to maximize my keyboard shortcuts as much as I can, but making the jump to interacting with DBs using psql is just intimidating... Then again I used to feel that way about vi and the terminal in general. Maybe all I need is a few more years in and opinions change suppose. I was also looking at the idea from an ergonomics/longevity perspective. All in all I think it's a good idea to invest into a corne sooner than later but I'll probably have it alongside my tkl for a while.

And it's hard not to compare myself to devs on lemmy 😂 I've already learned so much just by being here and in programming.dev (little things, but they add up honestly) but I'm sure a lot of devs have these feelings at some point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I went 100% -> tkl -> 60% -> corne (couldn't do it) -> lilly58 -> kenisis -> dactyl

If you can solder then kits aren't expensive vs pre built. Go for hot swap and you can start out with cheaper switches and experiment from there. And if you can't solder then it's actually good way to learn 🤣