Debugging my RSI - by Max Shen - Debug Your Pain

A personal essay about debilitating chronic pain, and how I acquired the knowledge to get out of it.

Debugging my RSI A personal essay about debilitating chronic pain, and how I acquired the knowledge to get out of it. Max Shen Jul 03, 2024 10 Share A fire burning I am about to give up. My eyes are bleary after four days of staring at numpy arrays. I want to smash my keyboard and throw it out into the snow, but I have promised myself that I will fix this bug by the end of the week. Besides a dull headache, I feel the usual ache in my wrists. This time, though, my forearms are also hurting. A dull heat rises from my wrists to the soft muscle below my elbow. Another half hour of coding, the pai

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