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How I Optimize Myself

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Re: How I Optimize Myself

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Post by finishingmove »

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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Post by nulldata »

finishingmove wrote: post #3

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 backgroun…

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.

Re: How I Optimize Myself

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Post by operand »

finishingmove wrote: post #3

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 backgroun…

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.

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Post by swah »

nulldata wrote: post #4
finishingmove wrote: post #3

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 backgroun…

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 :)

Re: How I Optimize Myself

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Post by TeMPOraL »

danielharan wrote: post #2

Upvoting this, if only for the suggestion to "Don’t think at your desk", which is a strategy I hadn't heard before.

I'm a person who just plain can't think in front of the code. Whenever I need to design something, I need to take pen and some paper, or go use a whiteboard, or go outside and take a walk, or sometimes take a shower (I use a waterproof notepad to write down ideas there).

I always struggled with this, seeing how my friends can sit for 8h/day in front of computers coding good stuff, and I need to take walks outside every time I need to think something through. It's good and reassuring to find that there are others in this situation as well.

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