Re:How I Optimize Myself
by finishingmove on Saturday February 08, 2014 @04:17PM
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Mostly reasonable advice. An important step was missing though. Editor / IDE setup anyone? And in regards to that, I would like to point out one particular thing that might seem trivial. Color scheme. I think most people don't realize how much a proper color scheme helps reduce eyestrain, and hence general irritableness. Not to mention saving your eyes in the long run... High contrast between foreground and background color tires your eyes faster. That's why you should never use (0,0,0) or (255,255,255) as your background color.
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That's defiantly an important factor, I programmed with light ( high contrast ) colour themes for 3 years. I got frequent headaches ( especially at night time ), but then I switched to a dart theme ( Monokai <3 ) and I barely get any headaches while coding any more.
Agreed. I even would say that I use a light theme in light places, dark in dark places. So I use https://github.com/titoBouzout/Camaleon :)
Also worth a look is redshift (in the repo's as gtk-redshift if you want a a graphical control) which is basically f.lux but works better on Linux (in my experience).
I don't know if all the stuff about blue colour curves and stuff is accurate but what I do like is that it reduces the "staring into a lamp" feeling you get when the sun goes down (and in the UK at this time of the year that is pretty early).
ha! I hadn't thought of that one, but I totally agree. I personally use a dark background with a soft almost pastel color scheme (vividchalk in vim). I think the dark background really helps allow me to stare at the screen for a long time without getting as fatigued. Great suggestion.
On that note, redshift or f.lux!