The $15 Investment That Could Save Your Developer Eyes in 2025 (And It's Not Another Blue Light Filter)
I know as a software engineer I sound a bit too abstract, but I promise this will be less of an abstraction than an EventSingletonListBroadcasterComparator.
Have you ever felt sick and decided to address the underlying issue while you were sick, but once you got better, you just didn’t do it?
In psychology, this is sometimes called the fading effect bias, where negative feelings associated with being sick fade faster than positive feelings, making the need for preventive action seem less urgent once we're healthy again.
Fortunately or not, it passes too quickly to be taken seriously. For me, though, when it’s paired with a migraine, I have to take a day off.
But we simply spend too much time looking at screens. Sometimes, what we do is also our hobby, so we end up looking at screens even more.
The final push for me to address this permanently was our HR software reminding me that I have three age-related days off—a nice way of saying, “You’re getting older.”
