

I use Dragon voice to text for writing as I can speak prose a lot faster than I can type. Here’s a short list of some of the scripts I’ve written, in roughly ascending order of complexity. It’s given me a far greater degree of control over my computer than I ever managed to achieve with another OS.

But it hooks into the whole Windows system and makes it easy to augment my workflow. Even its fans admit how nasty the language can be. I wouldn’t call it particularly elegant, and it’s filled with tons of redundancy and quirks. This is for exactly one reason: AutoHotKey.ĪHK is an engine for mapping keystrokes to scripts. It’s definitely a second-class citizen experience in the wider development world, and Windows has a lot of really frustrating issues, but it’s still my favorite operating system. People think it’s weird that I do all my development on a Windows machine.
