In this episode, Scott talks with Zach Watkins about coding through osteoarthritis with Talon Voice, a split keyboard mounted to his chair, and foot pedals with macOS head tracking.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet Zach Watkins
01:26 Numb hands and an osteoarthritis diagnosis
03:21 One week searching for answers
06:30 Patching Talon Voice for PHP
10:03 Writing your own voice commands
12:09 Split keyboards on camera mounts
14:01 Layers on a 42-key keyboard
17:17 Foot pedals
19:35 macOS head and face tracking

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Save Your Hands for Another Day (Longhorn PHP 2026 talk) – https://zacharywatkins.com/presentations/save-your-hands-for-another-day/
• Coding without typing – https://zacharywatkins.com/articles/coding-without-typing/
• Coding without typing (part 2) – https://zacharywatkins.com/articles/coding-without-typing-part-2/
• Talon Voice – https://talonvoice.com/
• Talon community commands – https://github.com/talonhub/community
• Zach’s Talon configuration – https://github.com/ZachWatkins/user-talon
• r/ErgoMechKeyboards – https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/
• Crosses keyboard – https://github.com/Good-Great-Grand-Wonderful/crosses
• Kinesis Savant Elite2 foot pedals – https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/savant-elite2-triple-pedal/
• Move the pointer using head pointer on Mac – https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlb2d4782b/mac
• Shortcuts for Mac – https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts-mac/welcome/mac
• Longhorn PHP – https://www.longhornphp.com/

Zach’s Links:

• Website – https://zacharywatkins.com/
• GitHub – https://github.com/zachwatkins
• X – https://x.com/zachwatkinsv1

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