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Ask HN: How do you take care of your eye-sight as developers?

by mikepechadotcom on 8/5/21, 7:39 PM with 8 comments

  • by a3n on 8/5/21, 8:12 PM

    No longer a developer, and never thought of it this way, but ...

    I wear photo gray glasses (or whatever they call it now) with a UV coating, and sunglasses when i drive (against eye fatigue, the windshield already has UV coating).

  • by animesh on 8/5/21, 8:25 PM

    I am 38 and some of things I started doing these things since last 2 years or more.

    1. Increase the font size. Starting with having a zoom of 150%+ on most websites. For example, on HN its 170% and on Reddit its 150%. On Visual Studio Code, I started using 18px as the editor font size.

    2. Night Light on Windows 10 and low blue light mode on monitor. It sucks on some websites, but I am used to it now.

    3. Blue light filter on my Glasses. This is recent and it seems to help.

    4. Simple eye exercises and 20-20-20 rule for eyes.

  • by verdverm on 8/5/21, 8:36 PM

    The 420 rule

    - 20 times a day

    - look and blink 20 times

    - at 20 different distances

    - at least 20 feet away

  • by e9 on 8/6/21, 3:10 AM

    Can-C eye drops