Coding While ADHD

I’ve been dealing with ADHD my whole life, more or less. Starting at 6 years old when I got a Gamecube and instantly became addicted, hitting the necessary dopamine floor to feel focused for the first time in my life, and riding that high onward until today. My main problems tend to manifest as an inability to even start, problems I don’t want to tackle or find uninteresting slide off my brain like rain off a duck’s back. It becomes not just hard to focus, but hard to even perceive the problem. How the hell am I supposed to function in a situation like this?

Nvim

Neovim has become my workhorse of late, and I’m having a good time with it. It feels good on my ADHD brain to not have to switch to a mouse, and I’ve still got the neuroplasticity to make all the keybinds stick.

Honestly, I’d recommend it to anyone who’s sensitive to context switching like I am. It’s hard to express the pure focus (and sense of power) that comes from executing a series of edits by jumping through your code, weaving in and out of modes, etc. It takes a bit of time to learn, sure, but I’ve never felt more locked in than when it’s just me, the terminal, and my keyboard. No buttons to click, nothing in my way.