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My stress relieving tool are my hands. I have calluses to prove it. Spoke wind up is avoided to a large extent by using alloy nipples. The sapim ones are quite corrosion resistant, don't break and as the almost eliminate wind up with lasers so that is the best reason to use them.
Anodised black brass nipples seem to cause more wind up than standard brass so avoid those. Also spoke length is key if you start to run out of threads wind up happens which is why I normally round down on spoke lengths. Also sometimes some batch of spoke are really bad for wind up. Sapim had that last year with black lasers but that problem passed a while back.
Uniformity of threads on the spoke and nipples are important too. If a spoke winds up early I swap the nipples and then the spoke and often cures it. windup is never a big problem for me but I don't know how it varies with other spoke brands. I use lasers a lot so of was going to happen every day it should to me. What spokes do you use a arup.