VibeCoder [they/them]

Oh, and a consistent exercise routine helps a ton too. And so does keeping a consistent sleep schedule. And so does minimizing stress. And minimizing shame regarding your symptoms.

I’m a procrastinator

I’m accruing technical debt

In healing from my own ADHD-related trauma, I’ve learned that “I’m not interested” is often the actual reason and that there are coping strategies for making this the case.

In parenting my ADHD-riddled children, I’ve realized that “I’m not interested” is also not a panacea and sometimes no amount of coping will make you interested in certain things

2025 is the year of the Linux laptop

I’m playing both sides

I used to refactor code from r/programminghorror as an exercise. And I’ve headed 2 divide and conquer initiatives for gradual refactors on a 500k line codebase. I’m decent at it. But getting buy in is hard. We somehow once got management to agree to a 6 month feature freeze so we could pay off tech debt and get the platform to stop shitting itself on the reg.

The rest of my career is going to be joining startups a couple years in and gradually refactoring their AI fueled spaghetti, isn’t it?

“Requirements”

Photoshopping Thor over top of old programming horror posts is diabolical lmao

Many of these things can be curbed through medication and therapy. And people with ADHD will still pay more an average for all of them. Both things are true.

I have kids whose days I fuck up if I don’t get up on time. After years of fine tuning, my morning routine is a well-oiled panic-fueled blur (They only miss the bus once or twice every few weeks)

This is just masking and it’s exhausting. It’s so much more fun and relaxing to spend time with my ADHD friends

My parents insisted I didn’t have ADHD as a kid because I had the same symptoms they had as kids and their parents just told them it was normal. Turns out ADHD has a genetic component and this is pretty common. You can find screeners online, but your best bet is to just get tested by a psychiatrist specifically. They’re the ones who can diagnose you and prescribe you proper medication. If you’re underage, this will likely require a hard conversation with your parents and if you’re in the US at least, you may need a referral from your primary care provider.

A psychiatrist will rule out differential diagnoses (things that present similarly and could explain your symptoms for other reasons) and they’ll also screen for comorbidities (other disorders you may have on top of ADHD) that could be made worse with front line ADHD medications.

You also don’t suddenly get rid of it once you’re an adult, which I believe is the point being made

#!/usr/bin/env python

def main() -> None:
    """executes when file is run as a standalone script"""
    print('hello world')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

print('hello world')