{"id":287,"date":"2008-06-22T20:55:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T03:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-06-22T20:55:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T03:55:52","slug":"going-dvorak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/06\/going-dvorak\/","title":{"rendered":"Going dvorak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I taught Anita some Python this weekend, and was peppered with questions like &#8220;where is the key for the two little lines?&#8221; &#8220;You mean a quote mark?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going through much the same now. Moments ago I changed my keyboard layout to dvorak. Why? I type alot. Variety helps keep carpal tunnel at bay. And a few mental flexibility exercises definitely won&#8217;t hurt. (I&#8217;ll keep using qwerty at work.) Some observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;the&#8221; is really easy to type. It just flows out.<\/li>\n<li>OSX has a key mapping that preserves qwerty layout when the cmd key is down&#8211;useful for muscle memory on cut, paste, open, close, tab, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Expect more typos the next few weeks. :-)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigliwood.com\/abcd\/abcd.html\">ABCD<\/a> is highly recommended.<\/li>\n<li>Pointer fingers go on &#8220;u&#8221; and &#8220;h&#8221;. Without the little bumps on the keys, it&#8217;s hard to get your hands oriented. Two small pieces of tape help.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m getting better at this already.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>-m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I taught Anita some Python this weekend, and was peppered with questions like &#8220;where is the key for the two little lines?&#8221; &#8220;You mean a quote mark?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah.&#8221; I&#8217;m going through much the same now. Moments ago I changed my keyboard layout to dvorak. Why? I type alot. Variety helps keep carpal tunnel at bay&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,18],"tags":[208,205,207,206,204],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everythingismiscellaneous","category-hardware","tag-abcd","tag-dvorak","tag-osx","tag-productivity","tag-qwerty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-4D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}