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A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard

Last summer I got into cycling. I've long been a standing desk-er, and going out for long zone 2 rides and wondering what to think about made me wonder: could I work at a desk while I cycle? I have a stationary bike trainer, so I first tried the obvious thing and just slid it slightly under my standing desk.

Attempting to engage with content while cycling also made me realise that these small physical interruptions had an outsized impact on my ability to do anything meaningful. (The only exception was when I had to stop cycling periodically to reconfigure my webcam to show the full context of my bike– and to take and link and photo below; and to actually upload the video.) I only occasionally have to reach up and use the mouse when stuck in some janky context where I haven't yet figured out how to enable vim shortcuts– as is the case in switching the OBS scene in the recording above.

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