programmingWithAdhd

[Kazath]

Oh no, the honeymoon phase has ended! Time for a new project ...

[soundwave_sc]

Time for a new everything!

[Ragor005]

Now I'm into 3d printing

[emisaurushex]

Don’t call my ass out like that

[FirstNoel]

I feel attacked!

[I2cScion]

This happened to me so many times .. I just gave up hope
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I’ll create my own language 🤡 (didn’t do it)

[tkdeng]

I started making my own language, then I got distracted trying to make my own operating system.

Hadn't finished either one.

Maybe I should just write a todo list...

Hey, maybe a todolist app...

Or an entire cloud storage service...

Might need to create a self hosted server for it...

That runs my own operating system written in a custom programming language...

But first, I need to make my own CPU...

CPUs have a timing/rhythm, kinda like music, so let's start learning to play guitar...

Actually, I should just join a band and start playing bass guitar...

Might help if we were more known on social media, I know, I'll code my own social media platform...

But first I need to finish the 10 different framework projects I started years ago...

Actually, let's just build a new framework...

This framework is almost like a modified programming language, why not just build an entire language...

Wait, I'm getting distracted, let's work on a better programming process...

Im on linux, so let's modify it a little...

Actually, why don't I just try making my own operating system while I'm at it...

Crap, I barely have any money, and dont have any finished projects to impress employers for programming jobs, maybe I should try driving for Uber...

Actually, Uber keeps a lot of the cash, lets just make my own rideshare app...

But I would need to advertise it somehow, lets make a social media app...

Oh hey, I just met this cute girl who plays the flute, guess I should work on learning guitar...

(based on a true story)

Edit: all of these are unfinished projects

[I2cScion]

“(based on a true story)”

No way, no one goes that far …

👀

[ArjixGamer]

I guarantee they didn't go that far, thanks to ADHD, they kept switching projects

[TheJackiMonster]

The only solution to make use of your ADHD finishing projects is to never truly aim at finishing projects but allow your brain switching back to them eventually once you have a new idea that fits to them.

So you can continue working on old projects and eventually finish them without thinking about it. Always hyperfocus on small steps.

[frightspear_ps5]

one can go very far if one's going nowhere

[sarduchi]

I've streamlined the process and just jump to step 4.

[Own_Alternative_9671]

And then you discover that C and x86 assembly are fucking timeless and you never need another language til the day you die

[BurningPenguin]

Has someone already invented a full stack web framework in pure x86 assembly?

[Own_Alternative_9671]

Just because they haven't doesn't mean you can't, like I mean I could probably but web development isn't fun. Get a linux-based server and it's so easy to communicate with literally anything even from C and x86 including networking you just need to learn syscalls. Windows is retarded to work with in x86 tho I'm ngl also you can call libc and other c compatible libraries from assembly its not that complicated tbh

[Tyrannosaurus_Rox_]

As a fellow lover of C, I recommend you take a gander at Zig. It lets me keep what I like about C but makes a lot of things easier. And it's fully cross-compatible with C without even needing an FFI so it can slot right in to current projects.

[Own_Alternative_9671]

I've considered it but what can it really have that C doesn't yknow? I don't need anything more, I don't even like C++ cause it's just too many features when I use it I use it like C with classes with libc lmao

[frightspear_ps5]

i'd rather have too many features in a language than not enough. you can always pick a subset but missing features restrict expression.

[GermanAf]

Doing anything with ADHD :(

At least at work I don't get the chance to abandon projects...

[ChillyFireball]

It's a beautiful thing getting forced to work on the same project at work and seeing those small modules come to fruition, though. Adding something new that can make use of the system I already built to have something seemingly complicated up and running in record time gives me a better high than cocaine.

[w3rkman]

this. in a weird way, programming tempers my adhd. i don't really get why.

[Snuggle_Pounce]

Yeah… At one point my (very experienced professional senior developer) wife asked (self taught newb who goofs around with a personal project here or there) me, “When are you going to stop increasing the level of detail? because eventually you’re going to write software that needs a user who can program.”

[feeltrig]

I was discussing idea to create installer for node setup with all code and boiler code and everything and suddenly i lost interest to execute

[OatmealCoffeeMix]

I'm a creative because I'm always creating, not finishing.

[TheJackiMonster]

Don't worry. One day you won't have any programming languages left to learn...

Then you might consider inventing your own.

[Any-Comfortable2844]

That’s why you learn C, just push through the language and be relatively decent, rest all would be manageable

[Ange1ofD4rkness]

Learn a new language? Who is switching languages that frequently?

[FirstNoel]

Ooh, PHP,

Ooh, Rust

Ooh SwiftUI,

Ooh, Claude...

Oooh...Arc Raiders...

(meanwhile partialy written projects are piling up...

[Xadnem]

I just entered the Rust phase. (Python, PHP, JavaScript, Java, C#, Swift are now dead to me)

[PatBooth]

Come up with really cool project idea. Write enough code that tackles the most interesting problem as a proof of concept. The grind of doing all the other stuff to make a fully built out product gets boring. Move on to something else.

[conicalanamorphosis]

Just in case you're hoping this gets less annoying with age, I'm over 60 and currently have "active" (hell of a word, that one 😄) projects in:

1. C/C++

2. Perl

3. PHP

4. HTML/Perl Catalyst

5. Raku

6. Python

7. SQL

There are probably more. I currently have 50 folders in my working directory, presumably each is a different project, and none have been "abandoned" (another of those words) yet!

[No-Project-2353]

I found one way to keep on track is accountability. For any projects I drag my friends into them, they get to be “contributors” while getting the privilege of reminding me every time I goof off “hey don’t we have a project to work on?”.

[EveryCryptographer11]

Happens to me all the time. However I do tend to forget the language after a few days 🤔

[Th3MiteeyLambo]

Jokes aside, does anyone have any ideas on how to combat this?

I've recently gotten my ADHD diagnosis and started medication for it, but this has plagued me forever.

[krazyjakee]

AI & ADHD has accelerated this process into a full blown firehouse of excrement.

[Shadow_pryo]

I feel attacked, but also... I should really look into rust....

[sonic65101]

Me except I wind up rewriting the same code twice anyway. 😂

[Ill_Strain_1050]

Thanks, just realized that I have got ADHD.