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Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by dofdial »

TheRealHB wrote: post #54

The Blinking LED, A simple Hack that still works for me after years: 1. Place a tiny LED (red or yellow) by the side of your monitor or virtually on the screen corner. Basically anywhere almost bordering your field of view. 2. Make it blink like a fast heartbeat (120-150 bpm) and gradually slowdown to around 60 bpm (or your slow heartbeat base). Make the slope approx 20 to 60 minutes (you can adjust the best rate by…

great.

i am trying this now with a chrome-shortcut, window size 50x50, stay on top, js with blinking background on the bottom rigth corner of the screen.

If it helps, i will use a esp32. thanks.

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by RHSman2 »

slipperlobster wrote: post #668
RHSman2 wrote: post #649

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I have a 9 year old dyslexic boy with solid ADHD (impulsive). It’s been quite the journey (so far). He is heading back to ‘normal’ school next semester with no special support and fully integrated almost like a neurotypical. Sort of. I have the same ADHD style: Overall lessons: 1. Sleep. Melatonin. Transformational 2. Love. Love and more love. 3. Forgiveness and understanding 4. Throwing the kitchen sink at him for f…

This is good to hear that you have a solid foundation of how to best work with your son. I definitely wish I had that level of support growing up! I'm hoping to do the same with my kid.

The challenging kids split you apart and help you work out what needs to happen. THE definitive life experience for me. Good luck!!

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by TheRealHB »

SuperCuber wrote: post #579
TheRealHB wrote: post #420

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We use this approach of video heartbeat detection on a real product (recruiting tool) but not for my hack ADHD device, You can't really do video detection it in real time and properly, without overheating the cheap device. On the SaaS we did we use a recorded segment of video so we can analyse it afterwards, check the colour changes in the face of the subject and try estimate heartbeat with loose accuracy. More like…

I'm definitely NOT attending an interview where this kind of tech is used. My heart rate is irrelevant to whether someone should hire me - and I say that as someone who doesn't even get anxious or nervous during interviews.

Not for interviews, video-applications, is used to sense stress and give extra points (not deducting them) if a person is indeed just too shy of being on video vs talking about something ; )

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by TheRealHB »

dofdial wrote: post #671
TheRealHB wrote: post #54

The Blinking LED, A simple Hack that still works for me after years: 1. Place a tiny LED (red or yellow) by the side of your monitor or virtually on the screen corner. Basically anywhere almost bordering your field of view. 2. Make it blink like a fast heartbeat (120-150 bpm) and gradually slowdown to around 60 bpm (or your slow heartbeat base). Make the slope approx 20 to 60 minutes (you can adjust the best rate by…

great. i am trying this now with a chrome-shortcut, window size 50x50, stay on top, js with blinking background on the bottom rigth corner of the screen. If it helps, i will use a esp32. thanks.

Nice, Let me know how if works for you, for me only the hardware (led outside the screen perimeter) works best.

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by TheRealHB »

j_heffe wrote: post #553
nonethewiser wrote: post #91

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Seems likely to be a placebo. You have a vested interest in it working, admit its not based on any sort of science, and one of the setup steps is to overcome distraction (which is the problem that’s trying to be solved).

I believe there is research into rapid eye blinking followed by slow blinking causing the brain to "calm", so perhaps an external source has a similar effect?

I didn't look too much into it but I too have seen something long time past about patterns with light from a TV on some of those documentaries from the 80's, basically about people trying advertising with subjective flashes to induce a certain mood.

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by TheRealHB »

monkeydreams wrote: post #626
TheRealHB wrote: post #54

The Blinking LED, A simple Hack that still works for me after years: 1. Place a tiny LED (red or yellow) by the side of your monitor or virtually on the screen corner. Basically anywhere almost bordering your field of view. 2. Make it blink like a fast heartbeat (120-150 bpm) and gradually slowdown to around 60 bpm (or your slow heartbeat base). Make the slope approx 20 to 60 minutes (you can adjust the best rate by…

My daughter suffers from functional seizures due to FND and we do something similar with counting. When she is suffering from a complex motor tic we will ask her to count at a "comfortable speed" - which is always 100+ counts per minute. She will then slow down the counting until we reach 60 counts per minute at which point she has usually transitioned to a less intrusive tic or she has ceased ticcing altogether. > I…

Really interesting to learn about your solution for you daughter, great to see it works and appreciated the comment of my approach being an underrated one.

My case isn't anything as relevant as yours and maybe that's why I did not much of research, easy going for a crude trial.

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by TheRealHB »

BaculumMeumEst wrote: post #654
TheRealHB wrote: post #54

The Blinking LED, A simple Hack that still works for me after years: 1. Place a tiny LED (red or yellow) by the side of your monitor or virtually on the screen corner. Basically anywhere almost bordering your field of view. 2. Make it blink like a fast heartbeat (120-150 bpm) and gradually slowdown to around 60 bpm (or your slow heartbeat base). Make the slope approx 20 to 60 minutes (you can adjust the best rate by…

i coded up an entire program to blink according to what you described before i it occurred to me my screen only runs at 60hz lol

; )

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by TheRealHB »

swah wrote: post #513
TheRealHB wrote: post #54

The Blinking LED, A simple Hack that still works for me after years: 1. Place a tiny LED (red or yellow) by the side of your monitor or virtually on the screen corner. Basically anywhere almost bordering your field of view. 2. Make it blink like a fast heartbeat (120-150 bpm) and gradually slowdown to around 60 bpm (or your slow heartbeat base). Make the slope approx 20 to 60 minutes (you can adjust the best rate by…

Found an use to my m5stick C+ , will try this

Great little device, and you don't need to 3D print a case : )

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by 79a6ed87 »

mcmoor wrote: post #639
dijit wrote: post #121

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Well. 1. Self-diagnosis is not a diagnosis. 2. Things exist on a spectrum. The definition of it becoming a "disorder" is when it negatively affects your life enough. During diagnosis a psychotherapist will be tasked with identifying traits of ADHD (IE; Markers), you will not have all markers. Everyone will have some. Then those markers are investigated to discover how much they impact your quality of life. If it is a…

I still thought "X is a spectrum" is essentially the same as saying that everyone have it, which I don't think is a useful assertion. There should still be a threshold somewhere, something that of course psychology won't try to draw.

It could be, but that's why I think that the "self-diagnosis != diagnosis" statement is important

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by BaculumMeumEst »

anticrymactic wrote: post #655
BaculumMeumEst wrote: post #654

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i coded up an entire program to blink according to what you described before i it occurred to me my screen only runs at 60hz lol

Thankfully, heartrates are only in the single digit frequencies, so that shouldn't be a problem. 60 BPM = 1 Hz

thank you for the correction. i blame one or all of fever delirium, lack of coffee, and allergy to math for this mistake. thank god i'm using a shitposting account.
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