The day has come where I have to pay attention to my keyboard ergonomics. This realization came to me as I was finishing going through the book “Writing An Interpreter In Go” and I began having some pain in my hands. This was my first time writing multiple thousands of lines of code in one project and I would go through the book in large chunks at the time. Combine that with extensive use of hotkeys and I found myself frequently putting my hands in weird unnatural positions, which is what I believe led to the discomfort in my hands.

Note: This is the written version of a presentation I am giving to the UNCG competitive programming club 01-29-2024 This is a post written out of frustration more than anything else. At my college I’ve watched a fair amount of people code and often they go way slower than I think they should be able to. It’s generally not that they don’t know what they are trying to do, most people have at least a general idea of what they want to do, it just takes them a while to turn that idea into runnable code.