Was it the Chris Hemsworth’s Thor workout of 67 pull-ups (I didn’t actually do 67 pull-ups, it was more like 67 attempts)? Was it the swim I did the day before? Or is it just old age at a whopping age of 37? I went back and forth on what it could be, and have always wondered if the super expensive Kinesis Advantage 2 was “worth it” and also if I could get used to it. I workout every day, I eat pretty well, I chase two young kiddos around the house, and then one night I woke up and both my wrists were super achy. At work, sit/stand desks are everywhere, no special doctor note needed. I invested in a nice home setup with a sit/stand desk, and I even spent the money to buy an Aeron chair a few years back. Even including a command or option keycap would have been nice. For a keyboard that is that expensive, I would have thought those things would have been ironed out and also would have included extra keycaps to replace Windows’ specific keys like Print Screen, Scroll Lock, or Pause Break to something else. That keyboard, unfortunately, is not as good as their Kinesis Freestyle 2 for Mac since although you can remap your keys, the other function keys don’t really work as it does on the Bluetooth version. I even recently paid the money to get the Kinesis Freestyle Edge so I could use a mechanical version of my favorite keyboard at home. For a few years, this keyboard has worked out for me and for anyone I knew who was starting to have wrist pain, that was the keyboard I recommended to them. It felt just like typing on a Mac keyboard but with some extras, like the ability to separate and tilt your keyboard. A coworker introduced me to the Kinesis Freestyle 2 for Mac, which I instantly loved. That was fine for a few years until the wrist pain started creeping up again. When I got into iOS development around the iPhone OS 3 days, I was typing on an Apple Magic Keyboard, the little Bluetooth one. Since then, I’ve switched between the Logitech Marble Mouse, the Logitech M570, and most recently, the Logitech MX Ergo. I was pretty proficient with that mouse - good enough to reach Platinum in Starcraft 2. After I joined the workforce and switching mouse hands stopped working, I switched over to trackballs, the first being a Logitech Trackman Wheel. That was cured by switching mouses between hands to give the other hand a break.

Sometime in college, probably after playing too many video games, I started to get wrist pain on and off. I’m big on hotkeys and always am trying to improve my workflow. I’d say I’m a pretty efficient typer and coder. Although considering how many of their keyboards I have bought at each company I go to, I would not mind a hand me out or two -).

The Kinesis Advantage 2… a Developer’s Perspectiveįirst off, this is not a paid promotion by Kinesis, and I did not receive a free keyboard from them to test.

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