I wonder whether that is an ADHD thing or whether I’m also an idiot: When a website has more than 1 clear menu and one content area, I don’t get it.

E. g. a site is quite overloaded with distributed buttons for print, profile etc. When I gradually resize it, they suddenly “disappear” and a hamburger menu appears. I just stand there baffled where the buttons went.

Consoles work great for me, though. I have to remember a few commands, look the rest up as needed, and it’s no problem.

A HUGE breakthrough for me was when operating systems and applications started this trend that you just type part of what you want and it searches everything for you. Started with OSX Tiger & Windows Vista, iirc. But now they enshittified the start menu with web searches and all sorts of things.

Basically the same as when I stand in the supermarket and can’t find an item, even when looking at the correct shelf. Or the expiration date on food. Damn, could we make a law that the expiration date must be at least the same font size and be as prominently placed as the title?

So is it ADHD, or am I also an idiot?

  • LoucypherEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    You are probably the best candidate for something like LazyVim

    • AddLemmusOPEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Indeed, I programmed in vim only, until IDEs just got too good. Still using it for everything else to this day. I’ve been thinking to get Neovim, but it doesn’t seem essential when I stick with IDEs for programming.

      I tried Eclipse way back around 2004, but found the advantages not sufficient to make do with a crappy editor. Years after that, IntelliJ IDEA just got too good to miss out on, though. It also had the feature that is essential for me to understand anything: To search for an action rather than click through & stare at endless menus.