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Accessible Design in Integrated Development Environments: A Think Aloud Study Exploring the Experiences of Students with ADHD
Luke Halpin, Phillip Benachour, Tracy Hall, Ann-Marie Houghton, Emily Winter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10598

Accessible Design in Integrated Development Environments: A Think Aloud Study Exploring the Experiences of Students with ADHD
Coding forms a key part of computer science education in universities. As part of this education, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are essential tools for coding. However, it is currently unknown how the design of an IDE's interface impacts on students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In this study we investigated the use of IDEs by students with ADHD. We conducted a think aloud study with nine university computing students, followed by qualitative observational…

Anyone with #ADHD or #ADD out there?
Does your work involve a computer with internet access?
How do you manage distractions?
How do you resist the impulse to go on hour long yak shaving tangents all the time?
I'm serious. It's gotten to a point where it threatens my employment.

This is the future #Republicans want for you and your children

(Tilaajille) Äidin ruokavaliolla raskaus aikana voi olla pitkät jäljet lapsen kehitykseen #ruoka

Äidin ruokavaliolla raskaus­aikana voi olla pitkät jäljet lapsen kehitykseen
Raskausajan ruokavalinnat muovaavat syntyvän lapsen kasvua. Epäterveellinen ruokavalio voi lisätä adhd:n, autismikirjon häiriön ja diabeteksen riskiä.

On Saturday, someone told me that he eats vegan, has ADHD, and (btw.) uses ArchLinux.
I'm still not sure if it was a joke or if I was expected to call bingo.
#adhd #arch #vegan

New Guest Gist: Empires of Certainty
Dermot Casey responds to "The Age of Diagnosis" and its suggestions that there are just too many ADHD people around these days. This is the Gist.
https://www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-empires-of-certainty/

Toward Neurodivergent-Aware Productivity: A Systems and AI-Based Human-in-the-Loop Framework for ADHD-Affected Professionals
Raghavendra Deshmukh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06864 …

Toward Neurodivergent-Aware Productivity: A Systems and AI-Based Human-in-the-Loop Framework for ADHD-Affected Professionals
Digital work environments in IT and knowledge-based sectors demand high levels of attention management, task juggling, and self-regulation. For adults with ADHD, these settings often amplify challenges such as time blindness, digital distraction, emotional reactivity, and executive dysfunction. These individuals prefer low-touch, easy-to-use interventions for daily tasks. Conventional productivity tools often fail to support the cognitive variability and overload experienced by neurodivergent p…

rant on software dev practices
What is it with P5js and virtually all its ecosystem (like Q5js) that, still today, didn't manage to _properly_ package their libraries to be distributed and used via package managers?
Same with their insistence to push global resources and state everywhere... and of course virtually not documenting any of the truly delicate details, just the trivial stuff that could be auto-discovered by relying on auto-complete tools.
I kind of understand wanting to keep the vanilla experience alive, making it "easy" for novices... but that shouldn't be at odds with more "professionalized" production pipelines, at least *not that much*.
For example, with Q5js:
- The NPM packages could be mentioned in their documentation (they are not, even though they are official)
- The NPM packages could define proper exports (same for the JS modules themselves), not forcing us to rely on relative paths to files in node_modules... 🤦
- Globals could be at least namespaced... of course, it would be much, much better if they didn't exist at all.
I'm writing this in 2025, not 1993... and I'm... "triggered".
At this point I'll have to check if I have any other neuro-condition beyond ADHD that makes me "obsessed" with technical flaws, because it seems to be a "me problem" when either virtually nobody sees that as a huge collection of fatal design flaws... or they see it and don't care at all.

What if I test out treating myself like I'm a person who doesn't deserve to be paralysed by shame? What if I test out being compassionate to myself instead of yelling at myself? https://www.

W AliExpress to same śmieszki 😅

sister just told me i woulda gotten diagnosed with adhd instead, but my mom argued hard that i couldn't actually be socially stunted from having nobody outside the family who spoke english to regularly interact with growing up

I find the deluge of information overwhelming and things have only gotten worse with AI. Now I can produce mountains of crap using AI and then I have to sift it to see if there is anything worth saving.
I find myself always behind on working through all the information and projects I have...and if by some Herculean effort I manage to get current (this usually involves hitting the delete button repeatedly while telling myself "you'll never use that or need that again") I find myself building a mountain again with great haste!
Yes, I am fully aware I'm #neurodivergent and #adhd. Sigh.

Hot take about #StarWars #Andor:
1️⃣ It requires the viewer to pay attn to, remember & think about the story's subplots & not be an ADHD idiot
2️⃣ It makes the narrative familiar but also takes it very seriously
3️⃣ It uses the SW universe exclusively to tell a story, not t…

Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey
Pragya Verma, Marcos Vinicius Cruz, Grischa Liebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03840

Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey
Neurodiversity describes variation in brain function among people, including common conditions such as Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and dyslexia. While Software Engineering (SE) literature has started to explore the experiences of neurodivergent software engineers, there is a lack of research that compares their challenges to those of neurotypical software engineers. To address this gap, we analyze existing data from the 2022 Stack Overflow De…

Everyone: Yeah, Hyperfocus must be so great!
Me: I sleep 4 hours badly at night and dream in #cplusplus 😵‍💫 #adhd

excellent description of executive functioning predicaments
... in a thread at Ask a Manager about ADHD.
I wouldn't recommend the whole comments section this time, because there was too much "well _I_ manage" and missing the point, but I thought this comment from "Han about town" laid out the essence of it really well. Here's a snippet on the challenge of consistently filling out timesheets:
"Monetary penalties or privileges have zero effect on the behaviour, because the behaviour is not moderated by risk, reward, or consequences. It’s moderated by how well I’m able to perform a very rote, boring, *consistent* task on a repeated basis, which is very poorly."
#ADHD #neurodivergence #ExecutiveFunction #rewards

Podcast ep 186: 10 executive dysfunction tips and tricks to help people who hoard, whether we have ADHD or are neurodivergent or not - Hoarding Awareness Week 2025 https://www.

It doesn't matter if something is only temporarily helpful, by the way. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-186-10-e…

Decision making is exhausting at the best of times, but especially if we're struggling with our executive function https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

Everybody struggles with their executive functioning at times. Everybody does. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-186-1…

We shame ourselves into more shame and it's really counterproductive https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-186-10-exec…

Having non-negotiables is also a really helpful hack when you are dealing with executive dysfunction https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

The kind of brain shortcuts I'm going to talk about today are some of the things that might just be able to help move you forward if you feel stuck or if you feel frustrated with your progress http…

I spent years in that particular trap: 'I don't understand how to fix this. I definitely can't do a good job. So why bother trying?' https://www.overcomeco…

What is #BodyDoubling and how can it help us to manage #ExecutiveDysfunction?