3 habits that help manage your ADHD in academia (and one that doesn’t)

Longtime readers will know I have been working on a better understanding of neurodivergence (ND) and PhD study. I've just started my third year of this research work and feel more comfortable saying stuff about the topic. At the end of this post I will give you a research update, including the status of our survey findings, but I thought I would start with a…

https://thesiswhisperer.com/2026/04/05/3-habits-that-help-manage-your-adhd-in-academia-and-one-that-doesnt/

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Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.

So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc

As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

I wrote a little post for Own Your Digital (a Canadian project to help folks move to the fedi). It's called "The Canadian Network Effect":

https://ownyourdigital.ca/news/the-canadian-network-effect/

Basically, I'm addressing something I hear all the time about the fediverse, whether it's #Mastodon or other systems: I'd move there but all my friends are on [name a corporate social media site].

We gotta start somewhere. One by one, as people move, the Canadian fediverse gets better.

#MastoCanadaGov #fediverse #Canada

I'm going to write more about AI in 2026, and so I started with What is Artificial Intelligence.

https://sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca/tjkendon/what-is-artificial-intelligence/