Remote: Yes please

Willing to relocate: Nope

Technologies: Bit of everything, full-stack web dev (Vue, React) is what I have most experience with as well as Python. Web scraping, data analysis, recommender systems. Some ML/Pytorch as well albeit not LLMs. Lately I've been focusing a lot on Clojure(Script) and programming language design.

Résumé/CV: https://webbieweb.org/work/looking_for_work.html (haven't gotten around yet to going in detail on portfolio, inquire by email for my actual CV)

Email: akk0@webbieweb.org

Primarily looking for part-time or contract-based stuff, but totally open to full-time for things that are genuinely interesting or truly aleviate suffering in this world. I'm very available for short-term gigs and odd jobs, so if you just need someone to run chores for you for a couple hours at a reasonable rate, I'm your guy.

Professional experience going back technically to 2012 if I'm allowed to be a little cheeky (used to write Minecraft Bukkit server plugins for some extra money as a teen) and provable professional-quality work going back to 2017.

You'd be surprised how many people barely know it exists... I was a TA for my uni's Web Engineering and Ethics in CS courses and accessibility never even came up in either course.

It's just really sad that you give people a platform to say whatever they want to the world and most people seem to have little to say beyond "here's what made me unhappy today"...

I'm sure a lot of those shadow sides disappear in adulthood when one is more in control over one's own destiny but so do a lot of the benefits (eg workplace accommodations aren't nearly at the same level as school accommodations and unfortunately I'm convinced the vast majority of ADHDers/Aspies are better off not telling people at work).

It's hard to say what to make of the whole "trendy" thing, for every such person I know I know several others who are definitely on the spectrum but undiagnosed. I do think in our culture we have an unhealthy tendency to jump from "this is difficult for me" to "something is wrong with me" but on the other hand executive function or sensory difficulties are something many people experience from time to time and if "I'm a little bit autistic/ADHD" is people's best way of describing what they're going through then I don't want to silence them, because I know those difficulties are real and I have a lot of sympathy for that.

In an ideal world we'd be able to talk about the symptoms without having to reach for the syndromes, but that requires a level of experiential insight and standardized nomenclature and especially sympathy on a population level that's just not really there yet.

If you just tell people you struggle with procrastination or have analysis paralysis or get too sensorily overwhelmed by sounds or smells or the office environment to function people do still often treat each other like they're snowflake wusses that need to grit their teeth and pull their bootstraps or whatever.

The fact that this is all just part of "the human condition" often just hardens people more ("I had to grit my teeth and bear it's only fair you do the same"). Putting people in an exceptional "disease" bucket gives some respite from that, would that it be otherwise.

Better to acknowledge that there's nothing special about being diseased, there's nothing wrong with being diseased. We are all diseased and we all deserve and benefit from care. Those that don't think so should try talking to an older person ;-).

There can also be palpable downsides to having a diagnosis at all, eg in my birth country everyone with an ADHD or Asperger's diagnosis is legally required to pay for medical evaluation out of pocket to be allowed to get a driver's license and will face medical reevaluation on renewal as well.

There's some good stuff in there but it's just a kind of a gish galloping polemic, it raises some interesting questions but it doesn't do much to sway my opinion on the macro level.