Admin of https://kglitch.social, an experimental Kbin instance.

  • 5 Posts
  • 37 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 4th, 2023

help-circle





  • One of the limitations that people with Autism and ADHD often struggle with is that it is harder than average for them to imagine the future. Without that, it is more difficult to have a vision for oneself that is different from the present and consequently difficult to gain motivation to change. It’s a form of mental blindness that is very subtle until you notice it.

    Try to find ways to get really clear about the future. Define what your vision/goal is and then at the start of every day remind yourself what that is. You need physical reminders, in multiple places and forms. Objects that represent your goal, displayed in a prominent place in the home, pictures of the goal (or benefits of the achieving the goal) on your desk, a computer desktop background that is a collage of different facets of your future life, and so on.

    Make it impossible to forget how awesome your life will be if you make the decision right now to open your IDE and do 5 minutes of study/practice (which will hopefully trigger your hyperfixation and turn into an hour or more). Getting started is the hardest part.

    Find a way to hack your brain to make it do what you want.



  • I’m a web developer.

    Lemmy does not use the entire screen width. The way it has been embedded in the page means that image takes up only 850 pixels of horizontal space so it could be 5x smaller and no one would be able to see the difference.

    Lemmy really should be automatically resizing the images (on the server) when they are uploaded, not every single time the community is viewed (in the browser).




  • kglitch@kglitch.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlTime to ditch #duckduckgo
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Mostly to avoid conspiracies. The intended users are people who want to protect vulnerable family members.

    Another purpose is to demonstrate that the big social networks could get rid of disinformation if they wanted to - “look what 1 person can achieve, in their spare time”, kinda thing.