Show HN: I treated my back pain like a hardware bug(deskrelief.gumroad.com)

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Show HN: I treated my back pain like a hardware bug

https://deskrelief.gumroad.com/l/7-day-pain-relief

I’ve been a developer for years, but I also have 14 years of experience in calisthenics. I realized that "remembering" to take breaks rarely works when you are deep in a flow state. Willpower is a terrible mechanism for posture.

Instead, I started treating my back health like a debugging process. The recurring neck/back pain is usually a specific hardware bug: weak rhomboids and overactive chest muscles caused by the static typing position.

I built a daily maintenance checklist to patch this specific issue so I can code for long sessions without the performance hit. It’s effective because it removes the cognitive load—you don't have to "try" to sit straight, you just run the maintenance script.

I packaged the routine and the specific biomechanics here if you want to see the

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vunderba5 mesi fa

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Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

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I will provide one piece of feedback:

You misspelled the title of the "course".

DeskReleif => DeskRelief