I've got to be honest with you guys: I know you think all these things are "dangerous" and a "fire risk" but my closer network of startup engineers extends to 200+ and zero of them have been involved in a company with a serious emergency despite all the things we did.
This is also sort of why I like startups. You can have cultural cohesion. If you get a 10k person company, everyone has to conform to the one guy who believes that you can't have a vim pedal because the cable under your desk will cause you to fail to be protected in an earthquake.
No, thanks, I'll take the risk of tripping on the cable while the earthquake is on.
Haha, no, I made up the vim pedal story as a positively outrageous example for humor's sake. I thought I was all the way into insanity and so it would be obvious as a joke. My bad.
Haha, the pedals do actually exist. I'm sure the guy who'd complain about the cable doesn't :D You can hook up like a guitar pedal or a cheap pedal from Alibaba over USB and it'll do the thing. Honestly, though, I found it quite hard to use in clutch or toggle mode because:
1. Had to keep foot in the same place
2. When had to raise foot it was annoying holding it up like that
Yeah, I dove into the rabbit hole this afternoon. But my vim usage is too hardwired now after decades. I tried to teach someone how to use vi/vim at work a while ago and it was hard because I didn't really think about how I use it. Just like explaining how to type on qwerty; so much muscle memory that goes into things.
Back when I was addicted to WoW, I dreamed of using foot pedals as secondary inputs for macros/key combos, but never really pursued it past thinking it would help.
This is also sort of why I like startups. You can have cultural cohesion. If you get a 10k person company, everyone has to conform to the one guy who believes that you can't have a vim pedal because the cable under your desk will cause you to fail to be protected in an earthquake.
No, thanks, I'll take the risk of tripping on the cable while the earthquake is on.