The senior dev left monitor looking like those Instagram posts that increase your phone brightness by 100x
Why is this being downvoted? Doesn’t it make sense that senior developers spend more time sending emails than staying up through the night writing code?
I don’t understand how you got that from the image.
Both monitors on the senior side of the image are showing coding environments
What do you mean? You don’t write your email in your IDE and lint it before copy/pasting it into Outlook (or email client of choice)?
You don’t write your email in your IDE
Found the emacs user.
A senior dev writes a program to generate her email.
I have actually done this, and for more than just automated responses. It was before ChatGPT, though; now, I’d be surprised if even junior devs aren’t doing it.
CI / CD baby, every autosave my build pipeline clones my email, transpiles it into more easily understood archaic English and then sends a copy to the intended recipient while kicking off a chron job to send an automated follow up email to them and everyone they’re contacts with 2 hours from commit time.
Junior devs leave everything in
darkbright mode. Senior devs have learned to protect their eyes… While doing nothing but email and meetings…Edit: Fix word swap. I’m not one of those crazy light mode users, I swear.
How does white mode…
It makes my eyes hurt even during the day. At least unless I turn down the brightness, usually to minimum.Try not to work in pitch darkness :)
The brightness adjustment is there for you to adjust it.
Light mode definitely is not better for the health of your eyes.
Depends. If you’re working in a well lit environment, like you should, dark screens are harder to read.
And if you’ve got astigmatism, like you shouldn’t, the color-on-black contrast is really hard to read.
I have crazy bad astigmatism and work in a bright room and still cannot stand light mode on anything
Use dark mode in sunlight for a few hours and then tell me how it’s good for you.
My homeoffice setup is right next to a window, so it’s too bright for dark mode during the summer. So I work in light mode from about April-September and in dark mode for the rest of the year
Dual monitors are so 2000’s. It’s all about the single large ultra-wide monitor now. You get the benefits of a dual monitor setup without the line in the middle and the RSI neck pain issues.
but can you do the double click maximise thing?
EDIT : or the “windows” + arrow to other screen thing?
Yup!
Yep and in Windows 11 you now have premade window placements so if you hover the maximise button you can select e.g. “right hand, one third width” and another program for “left hand, two thirds width” etc. I use it all the time. I do have a second monitor on top of the ultra wide but mainly because it’s a special colour accurate monitor, for productivity I was doing fine with just the one big UW for years.
Check out PowerToys fancyzones feature if you haven’t yet.
I did check it out at some point but didn’t stick with it, can’t remember why.
I prefer a single ultra wide because it doubles as a dock. I can get all my USB devices and laptop power connected with a single USBC cable.
There’s that too. With USB ports it can operate as a pseudo KVM between a desktop and a laptop.
I bought an ultra wide at the beginning of COVID and when I started my new job, my employer gave me another one. Now I have two side by side (the newer one is in the middle) and my laptop to the side. Sometimes I struggle to open enough applications to fill all that space.
Used dark (not black) themes everywhere for 8 years. My eyesight is still good according to my annual physical, but recently I’ve noticed that I have a hard time reading text written on a dark background. It is slightly blurred, especially when there is no light in the room.
Somewhere I still use dark themes, but I always try to switch to light mode if things look okay with code highlighting or smth.
Physical? As in a medical exam with a doctor?
If so you should really have a check up with an eye doctor, there are lots of eye health tests that you should regularly get beyond checking that you can read a chart at a distance.
This right here, guy is like “I can’t see the light shooting at my eyes, but every thing is okay otherwise, I’ll just live with it.”
That’s unfortunately what a lot of ophtalmologist (and other medical doctors) end up saying when they don’t know what’s wrong with you.
They do, I really hear you. I don’t bother going to a doctor for the exhausting fatigue.
But with eyes not seeing well after 8 years of looking at a screen, you’re not an odd case, you’re the same as half of the society. It’s either short sightedness, far sightedness or astigmatism.
For me, it’s light mode for work and dark mode at home.
I don’t get it but it’s still funny
