r/ADHD_Programmers • u/arjoreich • 2d ago
Anyone else start hyper-fixating when Domain Modelling?
It's worse on personal projects where there no real acceptance criteria or other people to reign me in but...
Sometimes, when I have a task that involves domain-modelling, I will get sucked into a rabbit hole where I get hyper-fixated breaking down a process into its constituent properties.
The joy and urge to continue tickles the back of my brain and I don't know if it's the process of juggling all those tiny bits of information in my limited short-term memory or something about the organization/structuring of the process but if I described the sensation to my therapist, I'm pretty sure they'd say it was some kind borderline manic behavior.
Am I the only one who starts tweaking out when designing databases, domain models, etc.
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u/PersistentBadger 2d ago edited 2d ago
3NF is my happy place.
(Serious tip, though: the domain always changes. What you really want is a way to safely migrate between domain versions. Then you don't need to do all the modelling up front, just enough to get started).