opendyslexic VS bitmap-fonts

I changed the font on my kindle to open dyslexic & it made a huge difference in my ability to focus on what I’m reading. You’ll know pretty quickly if it will work for you.

Too bad the article is not open-access, as I would expect from JetBrains.

Extra cognitive load slows everyone. It's just that the effect is measurably distinct in people with executive function (distractability) issues, with respect to speed. The distinction between debugging and coding is not really active vs monotonous but driven by your own ideas vs chasing (a problem). The study isn't realistic, but it's designed to get a measurable result (and to showcase the "efficiency tracking" plugin).

Anecdotally, everyone adjusts their IDE, or accommodates what can't (easily) be changed. Too bad that wisdom is lost and hard to share.

I think the solution here is more configurable UI's, with the configuration being automated/scriptable so that once you've established your preferences, you can replicate them through upgrades, etc.

The most configurable IDE of course is Eclipse (which is in decline because no one gets paid directly to write for it, and it's cheaper to publish a language server for your new language than build an IDE). You can arrange views as you like, change menu and toolbar visibility, change key bindings, and of course add whatever plugins/features you need. You can save view configurations as a workspace and save various preferences. But because components come from everywhere, support for configuration capture varies.

People share their dotfiles for shell and vi/emacs configuration, but not their IDE configurations. It's too bad, because then there would be a configuration population to analyze when raising UI issues.

ADHD and ASD are a broad spectrum. It may help to join the tribe because it validates our experience, but then we can fail to recognize our brain's specific biases. Worse, anyone over 7 has been getting good at compensating, which hides the issue, and our culture of excellence/competition/success == good (therefore failure bad) further obscures with shame, defeat, and self-sabotage. Legal requirements for accommodation help set a global floor, but may also work as a local ceiling by supplanting ordinary fellow-feeling.

For reading fatigue, consider a dyslexia font, e.g., https://opendyslexic.org.

GitHub link Website link Source license SIL-OFL I've come across this font that aims to make reading easier for people with dyslexia and I've never seen it implemented before. I feel like it would be really cool if it got implemented into more things :)

I would really like to see OpenDyslexic as a font option in boosts

https://opendyslexic.org This is where it was made I think you can download an add on here to change all your fonts, as well as ‘most’ applications use open dyslexia or dyslexia open as the font name

Here's a list of suitable ones. I've used leggie for things like this.

git clone https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts.git cd bitmap-fonts sudo cp -avr bitmap/ /usr/share/fonts xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/bitmap fc-cache -fv

It’s likely I used the bitmap font ‘proggy’. Here’s a link to a number of very similar bitmap fonts I use frequently across all projects, as well as programming. They’re all monospaced of course. https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts

so i'm experimenting with linux a bit before i eventually end up switching over to it sometime in the future, so i installed arch on a VM to look around. I installed terminator as my terminal of choice (or the choice of a guide i was watching), and wanted to mess around with fonts, eventually stumbling on bitmap fonts. I decided to install a repo of them here , and followed the terminal commands they showed exactly. from what i can tell all of the fonts are correctly installed because i can see them using fc-list. Upon going into the terminator preference menu, it appears none of the fonts are visible, which i can only assume to be caused by the fact that all of the fonts are .pcf or .bdf, instead of something like .ttf or .otf, which i appear to be able to install. Is there some way to enable these fonts inside of the menu, or is there a way to convert them to a usable format? I dont really have a problem switching terminals or the like if that ends up fixing it since im not necessarily attached to this one yet. TIA.

On my previous system running ubuntu I had no problem with them so I believe the fonts themselves are fine. I obtained the fonts from this repo nd also installed via package manager with same result.

Take a look at the selection here: https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts

It's the default bitmap font since I didn't add any font in my xresources but you can get more of the bitmaps here

You might find this repository interesting: bitmap-fonts