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Does ADHD really make programming harder? ft. Chris Ferdinandi | S2 E04
Lane chats with Chris Ferdinandi-creator of Go Make Things and ADHD for the Win-a frontend dev, educator, and all-around expert in making JavaScript (and learning) simpler. Chris has built a career helping devs cut through the noise, level up their skills, and embrace ADHD-friendly ways to stay focused and productive.
We dive into his journey from discovering his own ADHD to reshaping how people learn to code. We talk about why so many devs have ADHD, how gamification can actually help (when done right), and how today’s tech is messing with our attention spans. Plus, we get into the psychology of learning and what actually works when it comes to staying engaged and motivated.
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00:00 - Intro
01:58 - Why so many devs have ADHD
03:21 - Quick explanation of ADHD
07:10 - Is ADHD actually more common now?
17:41 - ADHD, dopamine, and why we can’t put our phones down
20:50 - Trying meds for ADHD - what’s it like?
22:34 - How ADHDftw got started
24:21 - Why finishing big projects is so damn hard
25:54 - Best content styles for ADHD brains
28:40 - Gamification: What works and what’s just hype?
34:16 - Which gamer type fits ADHD folks best?
39:27 - Is TikTok basically junk food for your brain?
41:45 - Must-read books on focus and getting stuff done
43:43 - Where to find Chris and his content
46:26 - Is ADHD a gift or a curse?
59:30 - Brutally honest feedback for Boot.dev
01:18:58 - Outro
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Stop Worrying About AI feat. Danny Thompson | S2 E03
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We’re joined by Danny Thompson, currently Director of Technology at This Dot Labs and technical leader and organizer of the Dallas Software Developers Group, where he fosters vibrant local tech ecosystem through workshops, cohorts, and meetups. With a passion to help others learn and find jobs, Danny shares his stories and insights that he gained throughout his extensive and fascinating career!...
Everyone is doing memory management wrong. feat. Ryan Fleury | S2 E02
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This week on Backend Banter, we’re joined by Ryan Fleury, a talented game developer currently working with Epic Games on their Rad Debugger project. Ryan shares his journey from building games to creating powerful developer tools, offering insights into arenas, memory management, and the fascinating world of programming from the ground up. In this episode, we dive deep into memory management, e...
Is Elixir the Future? feat. José Valim | S2 E01
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We're back for Backend Banter Season 2, and we bring a very special guest, José Valim, the creator of the Elixir Programming Language, one of the most popular and loved functional programming languages of today. (Fun fact: it's used in production at Discord). We cover the nitty-gritty of the language, ranging from simple topics such as the decision behind not making Elixir be statically typed, ...
Season Finale: The Boot.dev Origin Story w/ Allan | 069
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Today, we bring you the final episode of the first season of Backend Banter! It’s a wrap up for now. With 69 episodes behind us, we want to tell you the story of Boot Dev and how far we’ve come from our beginnings, and for that, we bring Allan Lires, the first official employee and the second person to work on our platform! We’re going to cover our entire timeline, achievements, hardships, how ...
Should you trust tech influencers? | 068
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Today we welcome Chuck Carpenter aka Charles The 3rd, co-host at Whiskey Web and Whatnot. As two content creators in the tech scene, we discuss if and how celebrity developers and tech influencers are a good thing for the community, how we should be careful when choosing technologies based on influencers’ opinions, why so many people nowadays want to speedrun their whole career and how that cou...
How to Be Better than 96.487% of Developers | 067
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In today’s episode, we bring back Aaron Francis. If you haven’t watched our previous episode with him, he is a software developer, fellow content creator and co-founder of Try Hard Studios. In the past he’s been an accountant at a Big 4 but now he focuses on Laravel, web development and all things business and video. This episode will step away from the usual tech focused content and we’ll talk...
CSS Is The Hardest Programming Language | 066
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In today’s episode, we bring Adam Argyle, a CSS Dev Rel at Google, content creator, co-host at CSS Podcast, Bad At CSS Podcast and host of GUI Challenges. He’s also the creator of a bunch of tools and utilities for the front-end. We’re going to touch on a lot of hot topics, regarding the difficulty and power of CSS, how programmers most of the time underestimate and dismiss it as something triv...
I Quit Voice Coaching for Typescript | 065
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You’re doing networking wrong | 064
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I was fired for using HTMX | 063
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Declaring War Against the Frontend feat. Sam Selikoff | 062
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Forget SQL, use Typescript feat. Thomas Ballinger | 061
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Adam Elmore: IndieHacker Extraordinaire | 060
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The Internet == AWS? feat. James Q Quick | 059
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Stop Making Private Variables feat. BadCop | 058
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AI, not AI Bros - Ken Wheeler - 057
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Maybe Programmers are Just Bad feat. Casey Muratori | 056
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CS Programs Should NOT Teach Git feat. ThePrimeagen | Backend Banter 054
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Go isn’t secure?!? feat. Low Level Learning | 053
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AI Generates 90% of My Code | 052
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Should you grind LeetCode? feat. NeetCode | 051
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Python is Faster than Rust | 050
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From Nursing to Programming feat. Trash Puppy | 047
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  • @RahulSharma-bh1ux
    @RahulSharma-bh1ux 9 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    @jose, awesome that you like Metallica’s fuel

  • @DitmarsLong
    @DitmarsLong 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    You're doing a fantastic job! Just a quick off-topic question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?

  • @LunnarisLP
    @LunnarisLP 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Actually one of the 33:05 actually a mistake I made. Like yeah I built a flask app with login manager, cookies and encryption and did some minor stuff and put it together with mostly chatgpt derived CSS/HTML stuff. I even said like nothing major but I got the basics down. I should have honestly just said "I already made a few applications with Flask and SQLachemie, implementing functionalities like cookies, account management using encryption. I dont know it is just in my nature to be more of a modest guy who actually delivers, than a talker who cant walk the walk. But I guess if you dont land the job you cant deliver so I guess I will be training my confidence.

  • @vanlivingjoe
    @vanlivingjoe 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The problem here is ADD vs. ADHD....I have ADHD, my child has ADD. Same standard stuff as most with it. It's a dopamine level issue pretty much. My dopamine levels are just low as per testing. Racing thoughts are the worst part about it. Also have focus vs. non focus issues as well. Adderall definitely was a game changer. But the major side effect was a no bueno lol...Also a 70s kid so it was way under diagnosed. Where I was labeled "Learning Disabled"...Which definitely hits the nail on the head.

  • @bobbio100
    @bobbio100 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This interview has blown my mind. I have "known" I struggle with ADHD for a long time, but hearing so many behaviors described EXACTLY as I experience them, and so specifically to this career... It's made me really recognize... I probably need to also pursue medication 😅 I'm not sure I can cut through the rest of college without it.

  • @plaidchuck
    @plaidchuck วันที่ผ่านมา

    Don't forget also that when a lot of the FAANGs were in their big growth phase in 2008 and beyond they were hiring people out of the ivy leagues and other top schools just to deny the talent to competitors

  • @Brent-The-Carpenter
    @Brent-The-Carpenter วันที่ผ่านมา

    Boots mystical arena incoming? 😅

  • @nikexd
    @nikexd วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was diagnosed with ADHD in the 3rd grade and given ritalin which helped a lot, but by the time 4th grade rolled around, I had stopped taking it for some reason. I spent the next 25 years feeling like a lazy underachiever. Until I saw Chris's episode on the Developer Voices podcast a couple months ago. I talked to my doctor and I am now 2 weeks into using adderall and all I can say is that it has changed my life. Thank you for what you do Chris!

    • @bootdotdev
      @bootdotdev วันที่ผ่านมา

      awesome story! <3

  • @Dark-Lord-Raycifer
    @Dark-Lord-Raycifer วันที่ผ่านมา

    You couldn’t do that in Ruby

  • @austincodes
    @austincodes 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    He's right. Most things don't need to be beautiful but I personally can't settle for mediocrity

  • @blu3h4t
    @blu3h4t 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why tf would you ever use anything without gc or type inference if you are not an embedded dev

  • @blu3h4t
    @blu3h4t 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    She already said what her unpopular opinion is, it’s static typing, that’s the reason why she haven’t realised that clojure is what she needs, but I guess what university does to you, like the phd when they say it that you have to

  • @blu3h4t
    @blu3h4t 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It does not have to be a movie you can write a book

  • @blu3h4t
    @blu3h4t 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    She said so many times about one language on the frontend and backend and haven’t yet said something about clojure how? But I see she also said about languages needing types, I agree, but still, clojure solved the one language decent one on the front and the back.

  • @blu3h4t
    @blu3h4t 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    some comment here indicate i do really need to watch it.

  • @StingSting844
    @StingSting844 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Damn it's true though. Sorry I couldn't take my eyes off his eyebrows. They are thick even after shaving the edges😮

  • @Ro_builds
    @Ro_builds 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Is using Django’s authentication considered “rolling your own auth?”

  • @erdizz
    @erdizz 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Start with the "why", stress that part, then keep coming back to the reason why we're discussing this in the first place. In this conversation, the "why" is meaningfully stressed like 30 minutes in, still with insufficient focus. Otherwise the talk lacks the point. Arenas are used as a performance optimization first and foremost. Then, to a lesser degree, arenas can be viewed as a way to simplify memory lifetime management (a step forward for C, a step back for C++).

  • @tytonshade
    @tytonshade 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ive been progrsmming in c++ since 2003, what benefits does rust offer?

  • @Sibearian_
    @Sibearian_ 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bruh the photo of a senior engineer 💀

  • @Richard-sp3ul
    @Richard-sp3ul 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My fav backend banter addition. Danny has a great attitude and bigs everyone up.

  • @gmailservice9945
    @gmailservice9945 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Rust has a messy syntax

  • @etherweb6796
    @etherweb6796 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I get that the title is to get views, but my first inclination when someone says "I know JS" isn't "I don't care" it is "but do you really know JS?" Someone who knows JS well can easily learn almost any other popular language today.

  • @donlaiq
    @donlaiq 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble understanding the importance of attending meetups and conferences. Could anyone help clarify? By the way, I'm open to negotiating any position with a top budget limit of $399 or less per hour 😊.

  • @kevikiru
    @kevikiru 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That explanation for Idiocracy is terrible. The story was not about educated vs non-educated. It was about smart and informed vs dumb & ignorant. Huge difference between the two. You can be educated and still be an idiot.

  • @moddeht
    @moddeht 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Imaginary scenario and response to it, that is something

  • @monfera
    @monfera 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    At 59:17 the Mac or an iPhone may actually load relatively fewer lines in the sense that its shared library model helps avoid the multiplied presence of subtly different versions of the same frameworks/libraries. One reason why Apple devices are more memory efficient.

  • @Nellak2011
    @Nellak2011 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It seems every great language derives from OCaml. F#, ReScript, etc.

  • @garthgoldwater5256
    @garthgoldwater5256 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    the “lean back in your chair” to observe your code from far away is called “the squint test” by a lot of OOP people

  • @KennethBoneth
    @KennethBoneth 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great guy. Deserves all the success he has in life

    • @DThompsonDev
      @DThompsonDev 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      🥹 I appreciate you!

  • @SimGunther
    @SimGunther 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    58:00 IANAL The fear of NDAs might have prevented them from putting anything down for their company experience. You don't need to be specific unless it's publicly announced. It's better to have 3-5 points saying vague stuff like "Created or improved system to process from X number of events per day previously to Y number of events per day for this company mission" than to just have nothing in that time.

    • @DThompsonDev
      @DThompsonDev 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      NDAs cover company specific code but you can absolutely say "Spearheaded an initiative that led to a 10% increase in conversion rates." Without giving company specific secrets or code. You can talk about your achievements.

  • @eamonburns9597
    @eamonburns9597 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm so excited that there's going to be 420 episodes this season!!!!!!!!!!

  • @skeksis268
    @skeksis268 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One bad thing about GCs that maybe Ryan has been lucky enough to not see: it lets you go way further along the path of turning your code into nightmare spaghetti before you hit problems, especially if you’re smart. Clear lifetimes help keep code sane.

  • @DThompsonDev
    @DThompsonDev 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for letting me hang out for a bit!

    • @zachpalmer5538
      @zachpalmer5538 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I see you everywhere man first I added you on LinkedIn because of a mutual connection then I seen you travis media now bootdev good job man

    • @DThompsonDev
      @DThompsonDev 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@zachpalmer5538 Thanks brother! Just happy I can keep helping folks!

  • @Iswimandrun
    @Iswimandrun 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I write c for scales yea they are industrial and they are real time systems that control relays. I am trying to work in rust into our embedded Linux product.

  • @JohnDo-r6g
    @JohnDo-r6g 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Maybe not the information I thought I would find, but REALLY LIKED THE ENERGY of this conversation!

    • @DThompsonDev
      @DThompsonDev 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I appreciate you! Glad you liked it! 🫡

  • @granatun
    @granatun 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Danny's note at the end about paying forward, holding the door open for someone else is real. Sharing the love and knowledge and experience is so important.

    • @DThompsonDev
      @DThompsonDev 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That's what this is all about! 🫡🙏🏽

  • @visua1hue-dev
    @visua1hue-dev 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    4:26 - that’ made my day 😊

    • @DThompsonDev
      @DThompsonDev 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂😂😂

  • @TJackson736
    @TJackson736 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Odin's creator, Ginger Bill, has a series of articles on memory management. Very good intro into the topic. Odin itself is very nice to look at.

  • @MrMeltdown
    @MrMeltdown 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It's almost like that all the abstraction we have been using for years as some sort of good thing for the last 30 years has gone full circle to end up having all sorts of memory management issues. When you are working at low-level you have to think about this stuff from the get-go so you plan for it. I'm wondering if most of this stuff was already solved, we were simply told pass pointers down don't return them, unless you have really thought about what you are doing.

  • @leecherenator
    @leecherenator 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The first 30 minutes of the video could have been done in 5 minutes if they had done some code examples and actually tried to explain the concept of arenas. Instead, the host chose a wired podcast format where the host asks wired questions. This made the video difficult to follow and understand. As a result, the video is not very informative for someone who is new to the concept of arenas. Also the title is bad clickbait.

  • @NikolaNevenov86
    @NikolaNevenov86 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well the guys spoke a lot about malloc and free, but I don't think they mentioned that all of these calls have overhead. Basically malloc and free has to call to the OS, and the OS has to do it's thing to set aside the memory block, by doing some internal tracking things...like adding a small header right before that memory block. And for few big allocations it's fine I guess, but for many small ones(like what they mentioned), it takes toll on performance. Memory allocators like arena do this overhead OS calls once and from there on, an allocation at the arena is basically returning the "free" pointer inside the arena block and then just advancing that pointer forward by the size of the "allocated" block. So the performance benefit is obvious.

    • @RyanFleury
      @RyanFleury 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      malloc doesn’t need to call the kernel in any way that an arena doesn’t. Good malloc implementations also call the OS sparingly, and for only large blocks. The problem is that the generality of the lifetimes & sizes enforce a number of constraints which have a high cost, both in performance & complexity, if paid for on every dynamic micro allocation.

    • @NikolaNevenov86
      @NikolaNevenov86 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@RyanFleury well sure but just as you said, because it's a "one size fit's all" kind of a thing I would imagine there is a bit of an overhead that wouldn't be a thing in a custom allocator. Like checking the size , and deciding how to handle it, since as you said malloc can allocate big chunks and small chunks. I mean for a single allocation I would imagine that malloc would be better than an arena allocator, but after that, all other allocations are almost free for the arena, not to mention that the allocations are right next to each other on the block, while malloc cannot guarantee that. So I would imagine higher chances of a cache hits than misses with arenas. But yeah it's a cool topic. Especially if we can get better performance.

  • @alexeyku8926
    @alexeyku8926 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You guys reinvented memory pools , nice :)

  • @AFGautonompunk
    @AFGautonompunk 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    26:00 the thinkmill website itself looks rather broken, especially with dark mode plugins

  • @NEO97online
    @NEO97online 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Blockchain technology

  • @smashing_data4292
    @smashing_data4292 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My mom was a nurse at a mental health hospital. She got dragged down the hall by a patient once. I'm still waiting on my time to shine as a software engineer after 2 1/2 years of skills development.

  • @Awesomer5696
    @Awesomer5696 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    in odin I would say its basically standardised, the default allocator is a heap allocator, but the temp allocator is an arena. so most of the time I just allocate to temporary, and its pretty much like using a gc language.

  • @tzuilee588
    @tzuilee588 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    what a great episode to listen to, inspiring story

  • @mfrunyan
    @mfrunyan 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    the most successful developers use subversion

  • @ClueFPS
    @ClueFPS 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As someone currently getting one-shot by the FP course it's good to hear that im supposed to be struggling this much 😂