However, not every tool offered a dark theme, and my neuroses wouldn’t let that stand. I switched all my tools over to dark themes and noticed a difference right away. It had never crossed my mind that themes could play a role in eye health but in retrospect, of course it does. Some users chalked it up to personal preference, but more and more I noticed that developers were saying that they felt less strain using a dark theme as opposed to a light theme. Was this a quirk specific to our class or reflective of the larger coding community? After a bit of Googling, the top answers on Medium, Quora, Stack Exchange, Reddit, and Stack Overflow all seemed to slant heavily toward dark themes. To my surprise, only one other student beside myself preferred light themes. I polled my class to see who preferred light themes and who preferred dark themes. That really got me thinking about dark themes and whether they could play a role beyond pure aesthetics. The most prominent feature to me was a dark theme for the entire OS. I didn’t think about it again until Apple rolled out MacOS Mojave about a week ago. “Every 20 minutes, shift your eyes to look at an object at least 20 feet away, for at least 20 seconds”.Ĭool, I had some steps I could take and was content that I was doing what I could to preserve my eye health. And I learned about the 20–20–20 rule from the American Association of Opthamology.
Beyond compare dark theme software#
I installed f.lux, software that “makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day” (which Flatiron had recommended initially). I did a little research and found some options to help alleviate some of the strain I was developing. Nothing serious, but this was only a couple days in to a full-time 15 week course and I was worried about my long-term eye health. We get it Neo, but you’re probably not The One.Īlright, themes chosen, everything is clean and uniform, let’s get coding!Īlmost immediately after beginning classes, I began to notice some eye strain. It looked cleaner to me, felt “lighter” for lack of a better word, and dark themes had always seemed a little too edgy for my tastes. Being the slightly neurotic person I am, I needed to create unity across my tools so that they were as consistent as possible.
At first glance, all the tools I was starting use seemed to be divided into either a light theme camp or a dark theme camp, and most of them offered an alternative to their default (with a few exceptions…Spotify, Slack).
I’ve always been particular about aesthetics in all areas of my life and typically when I have the option to customize something, I do. Terminal, a text editor (I like Atom), Github, and Slack to name a few. It was my first foray into “real” coding and I quickly built out my arsenal of tools that it seems like every developer is required to familiarize themselves with in today’s coding landscape. I started my coding journey in earnest about three weeks ago, at Flatiron School in New York.
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