Ask HN: Ive broken my wrist. What tools can be explored to continue programming?

3 points by kalev 3y ago ↗ HN

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I can’t use my left arm and programming with one hand is very draining. What would you suggest I’d take a look at? Is programming by voice a thing already?

pwg 3y ago ↗

The Dvorak keyboard layout also includes two sub-layouts for one-hand typing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout#One-han...

smoldesu 3y ago ↗

I'm not sure. I found Artsey the other day though, and it looks super interesting: https://artsey.io/

Maybe you could try something like this(?) If nothing else it's a decent excuse to try something new!

Jemm 3y ago ↗

Voice recognition has come a long way, as well as eye tracking. Give it a try, you might be surprised how well it works.

mcpherrinm 3y ago ↗

https://talonvoice.com/

https://talon.wiki/getting_started/

Talon has an active community of programmers who use it for programming with voice, eye tracking, and more.

gebbie 3y ago ↗

I can't use a keyboard comfortably, and use/develop Numen (https://numenvoice.org) which is FOSS voice control for Linux. Out of the box it's a simple context-free keyboard alternative, and broken wrists is a pretty common use case too.