Ask HN: How to take personal care when you are in front of screen for 16 hours?

Re:Ask HN: How to take personal care when you are in front o... by jkot on Friday July 17, 2015 @07:33AM (#9902216)

Had similar problem, now I can sustain 10 hours with no headaches. Here is what works for me.

- get your eyes tested. I have small astigmatism, not enough for glasses, but it was causing headaches. I got glasses anyway.

- Recheck your eyes every year. Eyes lens will flex once you wear glasses

- Buy large sound isolating headphones, not in-year.

- Play single song in loop

- Get a bigger screen, even cheap 20" will do. Laptop has horrible ernomomy

- Investigate ergonomic keyboards. Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 or Microsoft Sculpt are good starting choice.

- Try inverted colors. Most editors have colors schemes, try Solarized, Dark Vim etc..

- For browser most sites (github) can be styled black using Stylish browser plugin

- All operating systems (even Android) supports inverted color accessibility settings. Control-Option-Command-8 key combination on Mac.

- Reduce time spend in front of computer by improving your productivity. It is much less draining if you actually enjoy your work and see results fast.

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Re:Ask HN: How to take personal care when you are in front o... by Samathy on Friday July 17, 2015 @08:37AM (#9902398)

How does playing a single song on a loop keep you focused on working and being productive. Doesn't the repetitiveness distract/annoy you?

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Re:Ask HN: How to take personal care when you are in front o... by fedesilva on Friday July 17, 2015 @10:08AM (#9902766)

In my case its the contrary; it's the changes in patterns that distract me; the brain can move repetitive sounds to the background.

I don't play the same song but play repetitive music, also I use mid-tempo and up so I don't get sleepy.

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