Farm freelancers meet 21st June 2023 – UX Brighton, RSI friendly equipment and pets
Posted by Paul Silver
This week our freelancers networking meet up was in the Battle of Trafalgar pub, Brighton. I couldn’t make it and Laura kindly held the fort and took some notes for us:
- The Battle of Trafalgar is changing hands soon
- Puddings
- How can you photograph yourself with your eyes closed?
- UX Brighton
- Vertical mouse
- Keyboard for cats
- Five Sims 4 games, has it gone too far?
- University grad engineer won’t even try to repair a bike
- Boiling frogs
- Keeping slugs as pets
- Keeping snakes and the details of mice as feed
- Craig as a sexy woman
- Starwars – aliens exist
- Ecoin currencies and banks
- Midi dial speed and USB2 limitations
- Dodgy antiques dealer and Checkatrade
- Django is slow to adopt anything, ‘agit’ – async on top
- The 27th letter of the alphabet is ‘&’
Commentary
If you’re looking for a vertical mouse, Evoluent do excellent models but their prices are rather steep. If you haven’t tried one before, I suggest the Perixx PERIMICE-518 models, they come in left and right handed and wired and wireless. They are 95% as good as the Evoluent for substantially less money. Using a vertical mouse puts less strain on your arm than normal mice or trackpads, and I thoroughly recommend trying one and am happy to chat about the four I’ve had over the last ten years, so get in touch if you’re not sure about them.