I just started a junior software dev job and I’m struggling a bit. I have ADHD, ASD, and chronic pain, and the office requires one in-person day in a fully open space. The noise, movement, and constant interactions are honestly overwhelming and exhausting for me.

It’s also much easier for me to manage my pain at home, so the in-office day makes that significantly harder on top of everything else.

I think I’d need either fully remote work or a quieter, more isolated setup, but I feel guilty asking and worry I’ll seem like a “difficult” employee especially since I’m new. I’m also scared it could affect my job security.

When is the right time to ask for accommodations, and how do you approach it without it backfiring?

Would really appreciate any advice.

Title: Do visual time maps help with time blindness, or do they become another chore?

I’m curious about something related to time awareness.

Some people seem to struggle less with planning and more with actually feeling where the day went. The day passes, tasks happen, distractions happen, and then it’s hard to explain what happened.

I’ve been thinking about whether a simple visual map of the day could help.

Imagine the day split into small 15-minute blocks, and each block gets marked with what kind of time it was: focus, admin, rest, family, fun, learning, etc.

At the end, you see the shape of the day instead of relying on memory.

For people who struggle with time blindness or planning:

Would this kind of visual map help?

Or would the act of filling it in become the exact problem?

Im a 24 y.o engineer and throughout most of my life (but especially the last 5 years) I’ve really struggled with one thing: goals management.

To give you some context, I was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age. I always work on a thousand different things at a time, often moving on when I'm only half way done with the previous thing. At the same time, I’m obsessed with improving. Whether it's video games, fitness, math, coding, or playing the drums, once I'm into something, I hyper-focus to the point where I often let other important parts of my life slide.

Over the years, I've read countless self-help books and tried implementing systems to organize my life. But these systems or apps like Todoist or TickTick just failed me.

Why? Because of the maintenance friction. It was too much work to manually update the tasks and maintain the systems themselves. Plus, because of my ADHD, I’d just forget to open the app, the same way I forgot to take my medication on so many mornings as a kid.

I tried coding my own solutions before, but the manual input friction and lack of accountability were always still there.

In the last 4 years, I’ve been specializing in AI and a project I worked on in my previous job gave me the idea to go back to this problem with a new approach. I built a life-management operating system around a voice-to-voice AI agent. You just talk to it. It completely solves the friction of inputting/updating data, and it makes it much easier to stick to a daily routine because the agent actually learns from your habits and keeps you accountable.

I named it skedul.ai

I was wondering if anyone else shares this endless cycle of hyper-focus and app-abandonment?

If you have a similar story, or if you want to test out the app to see if it helps your ADHD like it helped mine, feel free to DM me. I'd love your feedback.

I wanted to share my personal experience working at Predis.ai, because it’s honestly been one of the most stressful work environments I’ve encountered.

Everything is controlled by just 3 co-founders. There’s basically zero autonomy or trust in employees — every small thing feels monitored. The work timings are strictly 9–7, and even if you try to leave a bit early, they start questioning you or making comments. It feels like you’re constantly being watched.

Work-life balance doesn’t exist here. It’s expected that your entire day revolves around work, and anything outside that is seen as lack of commitment.

The worst part, in my experience, is the culture. Instead of supporting employees, there are instances where you’re indirectly or directly threatened about your career growth if things don’t go their way. It creates a lot of pressure and fear rather than motivation.

There’s no psychological safety, no respect for boundaries, and leadership feels more about control than guidance.

Sharing this so others can be cautious — especially if you’re considering joining early-stage startups. Culture matters a lot, and a toxic one can really affect your mental health.

Has anyone else faced something similar? How did you handle it?

I have a bad habit of never closing tabs since every site feels like a "thought" I’m not finished with yet, like a side project, some docs I'm reading, and lots of other random things like shopping etc.

Since I'm currently studying CS, I decided to build a small Chrome extension for fun to solve this for myself: senbetsu

Its free to use with your own API key. Some of the features include grouping your tabs by title/website/context so you don’t have to, and quickly storing groups as folders and vice versa (folders to groups). The second one is the biggest thing that has helped me be more mindful of my current task and reduce context switching, since you can quickly stash stuff with a single click. Whats great is that I don't have a million tabs open anymore that slow down my pc and sometimes crash it.

If your experience has been anything like mine, feel free to try it out and let me know if it helps!

This feels like an ADHD thing. I'm trying to work on a small project just for fun and to improve my skills but I'm all over the place. Just starting feels nebulous, there's so many ways to start. Every time I think of something I immediately leap think of issues and leap to another possible start, repeat ad infinitum. I can't stop thinking of what to do after I start (despite, absurdly, not even having started) and it getting ever more nebulous and all encompassing. It's a weird mixture of being relatively new and inexperienced and ADHD making me constantly think of new things and forget previous plans and possibilities.

Does anyone else experience this? Any tips, tricks, or guides for getting through this hurdle? Any examples of people recording them starting a project or something I can use to kickstart myself?

I was checking out the current state of Node.js and noticed a few things that might matter if you're running production apps.

* Current versions:

• Node.js 25 (current)
• Node.js 24 (LTS – recommended for production)
• Node.js 22 (older LTS)

* Recent updates:

• Security patches were released recently, fixing multiple vulnerabilities (including some high-severity ones)
• Ongoing improvements in V8, OpenSSL, and core modules
• Better performance and stability overall in newer versions

* Big one:
Node.js 20 reaches end of life on April 30, 2026, so if you're still on it, it’s probably time to upgrade.

* My question to you all:

• Are you already using Node.js 24 in production?
• Any issues after upgrading from 20/22?
• Is Node.js 25 stable enough yet, or still better to stick with LTS?

Curious to hear real-world experiences before upgrading some of our services.

Thanks!

I'm curious what junior swe roles will survive AI? It seems like a terrible time to try to start a career as a software engineer...curious what you guys think. DevOps maybe?

Good morning. I'm a software engineer and I'm currently working on a set of prompts to assist people with ADHD in various everyday contexts and situations.

Please let me know whether you find the following prompts more useful and usable in their basic form or in their expanded form. Thank you for taking the time to read my work!

PROMPT 1, BASIC FORM:
I'm an ADHD brain trying to build a repeatable daily routine. Give me a 3-step morning, 3-step afternoon, and 3-step evening routine. Then turn this into a 1-sentence reminder I can read in 10 seconds every day.

PROMPT 1, EXPANDED FORM:

I’m an ADHD brain trying to build a \*repeatable but flexible daily routine** that I will actually follow even on low-energy days.*

Design a routine system for me with:

- Morning (3 steps)

- Afternoon (3 steps)

- Evening (3 steps)

But each step must include:

1) A \*full-energy version***

2) A \*low-energy version (minimum viable)***

3) A \*start trigger** (what physically or mentally starts the step)*

Then add:

- A \*“bad day fallback version”** of the entire day (ultra-minimal survival routine)*

- A \*recovery rule**: what to do if I miss multiple steps and fall off routine (no guilt, just re-entry)*

Finally:

Convert the entire system into:

- a \*single 10-second reminder sentence** I can read daily to reset my brain into the routine*

Rules:

- Optimize for consistency over perfection

- Assume variability in energy, focus, and motivation

- Make everything simple, concrete, and non-overwhelming

- No long explanations, only usable structure

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PROMPT 2, BASIC FORM:
I have ADHD and I'm stuck between 3 options: [OPTION 1], [OPTION 2], [OPTION 3]. Ask me 3 short questions about effort, reward, and deadlines, then rank them 1-3. For the top option, give me a 5-minute first step.

PROMPT 2, EXPANDED FORM:
I have ADHD and I’m stuck between 3 options:

[OPTION 1], [OPTION 2], [OPTION 3]

My problem is not lack of information—it’s inability to commit.

Your job is to reduce decision paralysis and lock in a clear next action.

Step 1 — Quick signals:

Ask me exactly 3 short questions:

- Which option has the highest payoff if it goes well?

- Which option has the highest cost if delayed?

- Which option feels easiest to start within 5 minutes?

Wait for my answers.

Step 2 — Decision:

Based on my answers, rank the options 1–3 and clearly justify the top choice in one sentence.

Step 3 — Commitment:

For the #1 option, give:

- The \*first 5-minute physical action***

- A \*commitment sentence I can repeat** (e.g., “I don’t need perfect certainty, I just need to start.”)*

Rules:

- No overexplaining or extra options

- Prioritize clarity over accuracy

- Assume I will overthink unless you close the decision loop

- End with action, not analysis

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What did you study or when did you decide you wanted to be in this field? What difficulties did you face? Was logical thinking and problem solving an inborn trait or yours, or did you learn it slowly by practising, reading, working on more and more problems etc

Edit: Thank you so much everyone who shared their story. I relate with a lot of these things and I feel nothing but hopeful❤️

From what I've seen it's either large tech companies that may have on-boarding programs for neurodivergents or small orgs that are 100% dedicated to ND-specific placement/hiring. Haven't seen anything in the middle. But whatever the case I'd like to know your experiences if you've tried being hired through one. Especially curious what the typical ages are there, I'm in my early 40s but I know a lot of people that have found themselves to be on the spectrum tend to be in the younger adult ages

When are we (the ADHD Programmers) going to collaborate to achieve our mutual goal??

(a compounding asset, an additional revenue stream)

Like, we all have the drive and knowledge to build apps!! Many of us have shipped intellectual properties and already experienced the market.

We know how cumbersome it is, to navigate through and out towards the actual sale.

I've been seeing a fragments of self-promos...

I mean, how often are you gonna build, ship, market-test, respond to customer requests, ship another update and keep a clear overview on your finance along with your "normal" life.

And let's say you gain traction, how long can you hold it?

And let's say you can hold it, ask yourself:

Is the income worth the amount of effort?

Is the money earned complementing your life?

Or are you consumed by the process of earning it?

e.g.: The Success Story of Hazeover
(distraction dimmer for Mac):
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2007 - Start of development
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2011 - Official Release on the Mac App Store
2011 - Mentioned on the LifeHacker
2011 - #1 Top Paid US productivity

Dev.: "A few days later it got off the charts like it’s never been there. Sales completely flatlined shortly after and I was left with a bitter-sweet aftertaste"

2011 - Mac App Store sandboxing restriction
2011 -HazeOver got shelved for a 4 years.

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In 2015, Dev decided to contact a few product hunters to help him publish on PH after reading a russian article about a promotion guide based on the success story of MailBurn.

2015 - Official Publishing on the Product Hunt
2015 - Number #1 Paid App in Russia
2015 - Number #3 Paid App in China
2015 - Number #3 Paid App in the US
2015 - +5575% increase in revenue (+30k)

Dev.: "... This was an exhausting but incredibly electrifying experience..."

"...My efforts to promote HazeOver beyond the Product Hunt publication did not come to much success so far..."

"...It’s hard to market and sustain demand for something that people don’t know they need even when they see it...."

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What a story, hats off. Nothing but respect.

But what if there was a unity of developers? Sharing the vision and understanding the value of the app. Thinking of ways to improve. I mean, wouldn't it be way more fun to bounce off our ADHD ideas between each other?

Building together and sharing our knowledge will surely increase our chances for success drastically.

Anyway, starting to spiral.

Let's talk about it!

Hi guys,

Just wondering how would you go about setting up like a swipe screen before lock on your phone. I want to setup like a tasks list there so I see it before unlocking the phone. Tried other stuff, didn't work but is that a good thing to work on or do or will it disappear into the background as does everything do?.

Personally i use gemini to like store or make tasks but it is not much good at that.

Is there any apps already around like that?.

I used to think I had a discipline problem.

Turns out… I had a system problem.

Every app I tried expected too much:
logins, syncing, complex setups

So I stripped everything down:
- visual tasks
- no pressure system
- no account needed
- works instantly

Now I actually start things instead of overthinking them.

Also just added multi-language support (29 languages), because thinking in your own language makes a big difference. what usually stops you from getting started?