How many times a day do you find yourself breaking your coding flow to reach for a complex keyboard shortcut? Whether it's Cmd+Shift+Option+L to reformat your code, triggering a local Docker build, or constantly muting and unmuting your mic during standup, our hands are constantly performing Olympic-level gymnastics. We buy split mechanical keyboards, map our Caps Lock to Control, and customize our Vim keybindings—all to keep our hands on the home row.
But we are completely ignoring two perfectly good appendages sitting idle right under our desks: our feet.
A recent project hitting the Hacker News front page caught my eye: developers are now repurposing the Behringer FCB1010—a massive, rugged MIDI foot controller traditionally used by guitarists and keyboard players—into the ultimate hands-free developer macro rig for macOS. Today, we’re going to dive into why