I broke my wrist a month ago which prompted me to follow through on thoughts I'd been having for about 6 months about switching to a split ergonomic keyboard (I landed on the Kinesis 360 Pro) and a different keyboard layout (Colemak-DH) to help with RSI I get while programming.
I've got a little bit of mobility back in my wrist now (enough to type on a standard layout keyboard), so I gave the new split keyboard a try, and the switch was less than smooth to say the least. I looked online for different resources to learn mainly just the Colemak layout, and while each had their strengths, they didn't all do what I wanted.
To that end, and because I don't have the time or wrist at the moment, I vibe coded a desktop program that merges aspects of MonkeyType, Keyzen-Colemak and Colemak Academy. Mainly to give myself a tool to learn with, but also to see how useful vibe coding something from scratch like this is. So far I've been impressed with how far it got on the first go. Only a few times have I needed to guide it to fix behaviors, but most of my time has been spent extending the program in ways that make it more useful to me.
Once I've got the ability to, I might consider giving a rewrite of this tool a go by my own hands. I haven't looked at the code it's produced, but I'm sure there will be aspects of it that I would prefer be done differently.
I've got a little bit of mobility back in my wrist now (enough to type on a standard layout keyboard), so I gave the new split keyboard a try, and the switch was less than smooth to say the least. I looked online for different resources to learn mainly just the Colemak layout, and while each had their strengths, they didn't all do what I wanted.
To that end, and because I don't have the time or wrist at the moment, I vibe coded a desktop program that merges aspects of MonkeyType, Keyzen-Colemak and Colemak Academy. Mainly to give myself a tool to learn with, but also to see how useful vibe coding something from scratch like this is. So far I've been impressed with how far it got on the first go. Only a few times have I needed to guide it to fix behaviors, but most of my time has been spent extending the program in ways that make it more useful to me.
Once I've got the ability to, I might consider giving a rewrite of this tool a go by my own hands. I haven't looked at the code it's produced, but I'm sure there will be aspects of it that I would prefer be done differently.