<story><title>Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms</title><url>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>Even &amp;quot;lite&amp;quot; editors like VSCode, NP++, Sublime Text, etc have become distracting for me. Every time I fire one of these things up, my mental state is eliminated by being forced to dismiss some &amp;quot;hey we got a new version for you :D:D:D&amp;quot; bullshit modal. To whomever is responsible for adding these to apps: please stop. No one is enjoying your shenanigans. It is a &lt;i&gt;text editor&lt;/i&gt;. Empathize with the user: People with &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; less time than you are trying to paste some hot mess right off their clipboard to work with. They&amp;#x27;ve probably got a super nasty idea in their head they can barely hold on to.&lt;p&gt;Visual studio proper is a 100% circus for me now. I can power through it, but I lose tabs in about 15 seconds after opening them. Many times I feel convinced these tools have been engineered &lt;i&gt;with intent&lt;/i&gt; to be shittier over time and slow down neurodivergent users. The ADHD&amp;#x2F;etc crowd is definitely the #1 thing a software company needs to worry about in terms of moat maintenance...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwallin</author><text>&amp;gt; Visual studio proper is a 100% circus for me now. I can power through it, but I lose tabs in about 15 seconds after opening them.&lt;p&gt;I used to be the same way but then I discovered Visual Studio&amp;#x27;s vertical tab option. Tabs are displayed vertically on the left side of the editor pane. The filenames are all aligned so it&amp;#x27;s actually possible to visually scan them. You can group them by project and color code them by file type.&lt;p&gt;Tabs are unusable otherwise. For me at least.</text></comment>
<story><title>Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms</title><url>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>Even &amp;quot;lite&amp;quot; editors like VSCode, NP++, Sublime Text, etc have become distracting for me. Every time I fire one of these things up, my mental state is eliminated by being forced to dismiss some &amp;quot;hey we got a new version for you :D:D:D&amp;quot; bullshit modal. To whomever is responsible for adding these to apps: please stop. No one is enjoying your shenanigans. It is a &lt;i&gt;text editor&lt;/i&gt;. Empathize with the user: People with &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; less time than you are trying to paste some hot mess right off their clipboard to work with. They&amp;#x27;ve probably got a super nasty idea in their head they can barely hold on to.&lt;p&gt;Visual studio proper is a 100% circus for me now. I can power through it, but I lose tabs in about 15 seconds after opening them. Many times I feel convinced these tools have been engineered &lt;i&gt;with intent&lt;/i&gt; to be shittier over time and slow down neurodivergent users. The ADHD&amp;#x2F;etc crowd is definitely the #1 thing a software company needs to worry about in terms of moat maintenance...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ziml77</author><text>Sublime Text is surprisingly bad about that. Or at least the package manager is. I&amp;#x27;m okay with occasionally being prompted to update the editor, but it drives me crazy when I launch Sublime Text, go to start working in a text buffer, and then suddenly have the tab swap out from under me to show me changelogs for everything it just updated. All doing that does is piss me off and make me certainly not read the changelog because I&amp;#x27;m instantly closing it to get back to what I was doing!</text></comment>