Knew a programmer that was near blind who only used magnifier on maximum zoom with his IDE. One of the best programmers I met, but his screen looked very much like that. Don't know how he did it.

[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Programming happens in the mind. Whats on the screen is a pale and lifeless polaroid devoid of the moving, complex soul of real code.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

That feels like that scene in Amadeus, when Mozart dictates his music to Salieri.

[–] Nightwind@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well put, however I find code formatting itself has a shape, texture and smell. How the programmer weaves the patterns of formatting tells a lot about his mind and style.

[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Agreed; or their mind and style style.

Auto formatting is often too rigid for me and gets in the way of context driving the style.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Albino? There was an albino in my IT and the poor dude would literally be like 4 inches from the screen at all times. I guess that must be pretty close to his experience, yeah.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I worked with an albino like that who used a handheld magnifying glass. It actually inspired me to write a magnifier application for windows (which didn’t have one at the time, this was in 2006). That then led me to write little windows apps every day for a month, which got a lot of attention.