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📣 mikepechadotcom

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


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


  👤 a3n Accepted Answer ✓
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).


👤 animesh
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.


👤 verdverm
The 420 rule

- 20 times a day

- look and blink 20 times

- at 20 different distances

- at least 20 feet away


👤 e9
Can-C eye drops