Used dark (not black) themes everywhere for 8 years. My eyesight is still good according to my annual physical, but recently I’ve noticed that I have a hard time reading text written on a dark background. It is slightly blurred, especially when there is no light in the room.
Somewhere I still use dark themes, but I always try to switch to light mode if things look okay with code highlighting or smth.
Physical? As in a medical exam with a doctor?
If so you should really have a check up with an eye doctor, there are lots of eye health tests that you should regularly get beyond checking that you can read a chart at a distance.
This right here, guy is like “I can’t see the light shooting at my eyes, but every thing is okay otherwise, I’ll just live with it.”
That’s unfortunately what a lot of ophtalmologist (and other medical doctors) end up saying when they don’t know what’s wrong with you.
They do, I really hear you. I don’t bother going to a doctor for the exhausting fatigue.
But with eyes not seeing well after 8 years of looking at a screen, you’re not an odd case, you’re the same as half of the society. It’s either short sightedness, far sightedness or astigmatism.
Why is this being downvoted? Doesn’t it make sense that senior developers spend more time sending emails than staying up through the night writing code?
I don’t understand how you got that from the image.
Both monitors on the senior side of the image are showing coding environments
What do you mean? You don’t write your email in your IDE and lint it before copy/pasting it into Outlook (or email client of choice)?
Dual monitors are so 2000’s. It’s all about the single large ultra-wide monitor now. You get the benefits of a dual monitor setup without the line in the middle and the RSI neck pain issues.
I prefer a single ultra wide because it doubles as a dock. I can get all my USB devices and laptop power connected with a single USBC cable.
There’s that too. With USB ports it can operate as a pseudo KVM between a desktop and a laptop.
