Committed identity: ec4be3117568e0595510848e3dae09afa530206a4c7e9595bc4e6ddd699099b47e3594726972046d009f2a660366c4a83e70d0253af8f11094dc6d8712878d2e is a
SHA-512commitment to this user's real-life identity.
My real name is Aaron.
I am
colour blind. I wish more computer programmers were familiar with what colour vision deficiency is and how apparently insignificant, whimsical and/or aesthetically appealing choices in colour palette can mean the difference between usable and unusable user interfaces for the (surprisingly large) fraction of the population with a CVD.
I have
Attention Deficit Disorder, which was only diagnosed in adulthood. It pretty much ruined the first 25 years of my life. Today it is reasonably well-controlled by medication. Everyone has, to varying degrees, some familiarity & experience with deficits in attention. One of the clinical criteria of ADD is that the problem is so substantial, systematic and pervasive that it interferes with education, employment, relationships, day to day responsibilities and/or goals & aspirations. Medication helps put people with ADD back in control of their lives, but those diagnosed in adulthood can find themselves at considerable disadvantage (in education, employment, finances, relationships) in comparison to their peers, and that's something medication can't fix.
History
My first experience of on-line gaming (and the dangers of addiction) was through
MUDs: an acronym for multi user dungeons. Not content to merely play MUDs for 12 hours a day, I eventually became a programmer and designer of the scripted frontend user experience, and with growing experience, helped maintain the backend server
codebase.[a]
Eh? What's a
MUD? Why is it all ... lettery?That's ... not a jpeg, is it? MUDs made extensive use of
ASCII art, and later, once monitors capable of displaying more than
one colour were more common,
ANSI art.
Hobbies and Interests
A far from exhaustive list of things that interest me:
^Species orchids are those orchids that are found growing as indigenous plants. They are the sources of today's ~100,000 orchid hybrids and their innumerable clonal variants.
Committed identity: ec4be3117568e0595510848e3dae09afa530206a4c7e9595bc4e6ddd699099b47e3594726972046d009f2a660366c4a83e70d0253af8f11094dc6d8712878d2e is a
SHA-512commitment to this user's real-life identity.
My real name is Aaron.
I am
colour blind. I wish more computer programmers were familiar with what colour vision deficiency is and how apparently insignificant, whimsical and/or aesthetically appealing choices in colour palette can mean the difference between usable and unusable user interfaces for the (surprisingly large) fraction of the population with a CVD.
I have
Attention Deficit Disorder, which was only diagnosed in adulthood. It pretty much ruined the first 25 years of my life. Today it is reasonably well-controlled by medication. Everyone has, to varying degrees, some familiarity & experience with deficits in attention. One of the clinical criteria of ADD is that the problem is so substantial, systematic and pervasive that it interferes with education, employment, relationships, day to day responsibilities and/or goals & aspirations. Medication helps put people with ADD back in control of their lives, but those diagnosed in adulthood can find themselves at considerable disadvantage (in education, employment, finances, relationships) in comparison to their peers, and that's something medication can't fix.
History
My first experience of on-line gaming (and the dangers of addiction) was through
MUDs: an acronym for multi user dungeons. Not content to merely play MUDs for 12 hours a day, I eventually became a programmer and designer of the scripted frontend user experience, and with growing experience, helped maintain the backend server
codebase.[a]
Eh? What's a
MUD? Why is it all ... lettery?That's ... not a jpeg, is it? MUDs made extensive use of
ASCII art, and later, once monitors capable of displaying more than
one colour were more common,
ANSI art.
Hobbies and Interests
A far from exhaustive list of things that interest me:
^Species orchids are those orchids that are found growing as indigenous plants. They are the sources of today's ~100,000 orchid hybrids and their innumerable clonal variants.
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