Ask HN: Devs with ADHD do you use specialized tooling? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Devs with ADHD do you use specialized tooling?

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Post by solarkraft » Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 4:16 PM UTC

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #73

solarkraft wrote: post #55

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I guess this is more important than I realized. I use a 4K TV too and it's pretty nice (with the exception of the menu bar being annoyingly high). I used to have a setup that would only allow for 30Hz it and it was super painful. Also: Glitchy animations are the biggest reason I can't use Windows. macos has some too and I find those pretty bad as well.

Mac OS has a 'reduce motion' accessability setting that might help with some of those animations.

Thanks, I think that makes it worse. Now UI elements show up in places without an explanation for how they got more all the time rather than only sometimes.

Re: Ask HN: Devs with ADHD do you use specialized tooling?

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Post by comprev » Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 8:19 PM UTC

max182 wrote: post #6

Medication. I dropped out of high school because I couldn't focus. I didn't really have the outward symptoms of ADHD but my mind was always racing. I ended up eventually getting diagnosed, even doctors who don't usually prescribe stimulants prescribe them to me. I went from being unemployed and extremely depressed and doing small odd jobs living out of a cheap hotel room, to working at a FAANG like company without ev…

Ditto.

I thought the constant racing mind (and thoughts constantly dividing like fractal patterns) was _normal_ until diagnosis in late 30s after talking to a friend about it. It boggles my mind how I survived on a daily basis prior to medication.

Medication was a life changing moment and genuinely look forward to what I might accomplish in the future instead of looking back frustrated with the past. It feels like I was operating on just half a brain for decades!

Re: Ask HN: Devs with ADHD do you use specialized tooling?

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Post by yuvalsteuer » Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

gremlinsinc wrote: post #59

yuvalsteuer wrote: post #50

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This! Github copilot is like a search engine for code without the distracting elements of a traditional search engine, for me atleast.

Yeah exactly and if it messes up delete what you started with and try writing a comment about what you want it to do, often then it codes something better than I would. You just need to get good at writing comments or descriptive function names.

right. I look at bad code generation like an inaccurate search query I used in google.

Re: Ask HN: Devs with ADHD do you use specialized tooling?

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Post by daviddever23box » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 10:52 AM UTC

celdon25 wrote: post #37

daviddever23box wrote: post #10

Better use of async communications with your co-workers helps significantly.

Can you elaborate on the specifics?

In general, there will be certain times of the day when one gets their best deep work done; there will be other times when the distractions dominate. Team communication should be predicated on the ability to ask questions / get answers asynchronously, without penalties for delayed responses, and with reasonable degrees of detail.