trillium.is
Software developer, espresso enthusiast, voice coder, social dancer based in Los Angeles.
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Oh! There's snippets too. Those are super impressive and the same command adjusts based on programming language:
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Impressive, turns out not everybody has the same superpowers.
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Yeah that makes sense. Speaking out letters all the time seems cumbersome because those words in my head don't have the same association as compared to hitting a key.
Using the Cursorless hats felt a little clunky in the beginning but it's much more fluid now.
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I don't recommend a treadmill, I've almost fallen over a few times because I wanted to stop and think and forgot it was there lol.
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Come to the dark side! We have hands-free coding and row machines!
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Makes sense. I never got to a point where body complications forced me to use a voice suite, I just thought it was really neat.
I think my favorite use of the whole thing is that I find daily exercise on a row machine or stationary bike no longer feels like a huge waste of time 🤣
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I really like it for (continued):
- inserting another item into a list or function call (adds , if needed)
“bring air after item sun”
I still find navigating around my code editor to be a bit of a challenge, but the actual manipulation of code via voice for me is on par with writing by hand.
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I really like it for:
- rewrapping pairs eg () -> {}
“curly repack air”
- reformatting variables casing eg config_object -> configObject
“format camel at air”
- duplicating entire lines, blocks, functions with a single phrase
“clone line air”
“clone block air”
“clone func air”
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I think it's excellent. I'm more and more impressed with Cursorless every day that I use it.
I'm still faster writing code by hand, but not by that much, and if I use Cursorless I can stand up easier and have less back pain.
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It might also be that I find Cursorless easier because I didn't lean deeply into using things like vim
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Ah gotcha. I ended up settling on being hybrid keyboard and voice user while programming. There's some things that feel infinitely easier to do with voice than a keyboard for me, especially with tools like Cursorless.
Do you still use voice anywhere in your workflow?
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Yes!!!!!!
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Wait there are stickers???
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Ah instersting, so your experience with RSI doesn't really extend to your hands?
Did you end up continuing to use Talon Voice once you got keyboard based mouse movement sorted out?
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How has that gone for you? I've never made the leap into eye trackers but I hear that they work really well.
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Can't wait to check this out when it's ready :)
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How did this go? Had to do it a couple of times so far and have also wacked moles
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Apple has an iPhone mirroring application native to MacOS. I guess now I just need more monitor space 🤷‍️
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I mean I wish, it's a little far for me though
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I made this switch in 2022, and while there are still some things I like more about android, the security and device recovery policies of Apple work much better.
AirTags helped me recover my laptop when I left it behind while traveling, highly recommended!
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This is definitely the better outcome
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This was the talk that going me started with using Talon! I appreciate Emily so much
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Just gave a talk on this subject!
30m video:
www.youtube.com/live/EvDJpN-...
Happy to answer any questions
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This has been my obsession lately, how is the hands-free journey going for you?
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Did you try it?? It's the best!
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How is this going for you? I've been leaning into Talon/Cursorless more of late and I finally feel like I've hit the point of being able to do my complete workflow by voice (even if my hacks are still faster)
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Happy to chat here or hop in my calendar at www.trillium.is/pair
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Hey Sam, sorry to hear about your arm pain. If you're already a Talon Voice user the jump to Cursorless shouldn't be that bad.
I'm not as good as Andreas or Pokey using Cursorless, but I'm happy to hop on a call with and chat a bit about what's worked for me in ramping up voice coding.
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For anyone catching this later on, here's the talk:
Hands-free computer use with Talon Voice
www.youtube.com/live/EvDJpN-...
Thanks @virtualcoffee.io and @cfedev.bsky.social for hosting!
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If you're more comfortable editing text in a code window, there's also Talon's draft editor (3 minute video):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Q9...
This is what I'd use to do complex editing, but that's mostly because I'm familiar with Cursorless.
Hope that helps!
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github.com/wolfmanstout...
Here's the file with the defined Talon commands, things like "go before", "replace {words} with {other words}"
If the system detects multiple versions of you word it'll ask you which one to interact with.
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You mentoined seeing what it looks like to edit text, while I don't have a demo of that at the moment, I would like to point you towards Gaze OCR (see 1 minute video):
(This demo video is using Dragonfly rather than Talon but is compatible with Talon as well)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkFy...
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Same. This will be my 2nd SCaLE :)
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Will make sure to stop by and say hi!
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Here now!
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Will definitely stop by to say hi!
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Missed it! Subscribed for next time!
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Monday things :)
I'm sure there's more, but I need to get back to work 🤣
#gratitudejournal
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Friday things :)
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I tried this one time and don't understand the hype. Maybe my experience was a fluke?