Reading: What developers with ADHD want you to know
Installed Ruby on the most recent EndeavourOS1 install so I could run my script that adds a post to my site’s primary Hugo iteration as I work on a Gatsby iteration of the site so I can convincingly claim knowledge of React2 when talking to recruiters during this year’s interminable Job Search so I can get a new job and maybe get back on ADHD meds and maybe occasionally focus on one thing at a time and—um—where was I?
Oh right! I saw an interesting post!
What developers with ADHD want you to know - Stack Overflow
In fact, ADHD is an invisible disability, which is exactly what it sounds like: “a physical, mental or neurological condition that is not visible from the outside, yet can limit or challenge a person’s movements, senses, or activities” (Invisible Disabilities Association). Plenty of forms of neurodivergence, including autism spectrum disorder, depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and learning differences can be considered invisible disabilities.
It’s not in-depth or anything, but offers a little pushback to the “ADHD is a superpower” myth. That myth is handy for the occasional self-help pep talk — “I’m good enough. I’m smart enough. And gosh-darn it, this funky brain wiring is a superpower!” — but it’s not true. The self-awareness and arsenal of coping techniques like task automation can look impressive to the untrained eye. Those only give roughly the same functionality as a normal person going about a normal day. And oh goodness if you’re in a context where those techniques aren’t helpful? You’ve got unpartitioned tasks with a poorly defined goal that is important and kinda urgent, but stretched over months?3 The floundering.
And let’s not even get into the Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) aspect.
Anyways the dog needs to go out and I should probably eat breakfast and I think I mentioned something about React. Back to it!
And maybe check email.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 09:21
I poured and ignored a cup of coffee while writing this post. Left it right there on the kitchen counter.
Ah, still hot. Good.
This is part of why I generally drink from travel cups. That and the fact that I can be a very sloppy drinker.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 11:41
Cuddly moment between Barry and Jack captured by Mrs Geek.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 12:31
New #Linux #Steam show-stopping bug just dropped:
Might not be affecting everyone but it’s sure as heck affecting me.
Steam does not start since the UI update #9605
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 12:55
@mcgrew I assumed it was a driver issue (I got an NVidia card) but seeing folks having issues with other setups as well. Though a lot of folks are jumping in with different symptoms. It’ll take a bit to unravel I’m sure.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 14:54
#TIL about vanilla-extract and I was excited for nearly a full minute – preprocess CSS with TypeScript! – before I realized that syntactic seasoning over CSS just makes me mad. Adding quotes and camel-casing properties is just more to remember.
But hey if you like TS/JS more than CSS maybe give it a try.
vanilla-extract — Zero-runtime Stylesheets-in-TypeScript.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 14:57
I still have a soft spot for Sass but nearly everything I use it for is supported directly by CSS in-browser these days. Nesting’s still a little funky but everything else I need is there.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 20:13
Been puttering at a Gatsby iteration of my site for a little boost to my React knowledge and the main result so far is I am becoming more certain I do not like React.
This doesn’t really feel like new information.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 20:15
“This job requires extensive React skills”
how about some nice php and a little htmx maybe
they probably would not React well.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 20:19
@lindsey right? Like React hit some critical threshold of worldwide misery and now the only option is more of it.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 20:31
@misterjoshua Well so far I haven’t found anything I like about it, so that’s a tough question to answer.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 20:33
@genehack My framework time is weighted just enough towards Vue and Svelte that I’m having difficulty. Lots of “why not just –” for a dozen different contexts.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 20:40
@genehack evidence also suggests they hate CSS. And they’re kinda rough on HTML for that matter.
like
Did one of the React authors work on E4X and swear vengeance on all the other Web standards?
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 20:53
@lordbowlich So far the only jS-based static site generators I enjoy are Eleventy and Astro.
Gatsby – well I’m not sure I’ll make it to the end of this little project. I keep thinking about maybe Nuxt or ElderJS. Either of those would brush up resume skills, though only for workplaces that might not make me miserable.
Gotta think about it.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 21:02
@lmorchard @genehack a link blog with IndieWeb and ActivityPub hooks?
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 21:17
@mjgardner Oh I’m sure there are!
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 21:20
@lmorchard @genehack oh of course it would be a terrible idea. That only makes it more intriguing.
hackers.town: 2023-06-15 Thu 21:23
So my issue was actually that my NVidia driver also updated today, and that broke #Steam. Right when they came out with their big UI update.
Reinstalled mesa (yay -Syu mesa-utils lib32-mesa-utils), rebooted, and now Steam works for me.
Ah, #Linux.
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because I accidentally killed my Windows install and haven’t had sufficient executive function to fix it ↩︎
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I’ve used React at work some, but my brain needs the ritual of incorporating a tool or framework into my site building work flow before it lets me say “yes I know that” ↩︎
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like job hunting for example ↩︎