On: Ask HN: How to avoid going blind

[mwsherman]

Not in any way an expert…and I assume you don’t mean going blind in the most literal sense.

Two tips. Get back from the screen and use larger fonts: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-co.... Note the bit on “vergence”.

Second, against all odds I love F.lux: http://stereopsis.com/flux/. It adjusts the color temperature of your screen based on time of day. Try it for a while and then turn it off to see the difference, especially at night.

[SkyMarshal → mwsherman]

And if you have trouble getting F.lux to work on Linux, as I did, try Redshift too. It does exactly the same thing.

http://jonls.dk/redshift/

[pagekalisedown → mwsherman]

This is the primary reason I can't use Chrome.