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Probably 'correctly' is not the right word here.

I often code for 12+ hours straight and the only way to keep up with such a stress on eyes is to use bigger fonts and not focus too much on text (i.e. engage in a slightly defocused vision).

Which means I never use small fonts, though I see a lot of people who code on 13-15 inch screens with super tiny fonts.

Naturally, once you have to use large fonts you end up using large screens (I'm currently on 49 inch ultra-wide Samsung 32:9 screen) and it's the best setup for coding I can imagine.

Still when coding on a laptop, I sacrifice window splits and stuff like that but not the font size. So Macbook Pro resultion is even too high for me, and I'm quite happy with FullHD laptops as well.



Frankly if you are often coding for 12 hours straight you have plenty more serious problems going on that monitor resolution and font size can fix.


If you're picturing a teenager and/or workaholic unaware of life behind the monitor, it's not the case. But thank you for the concern :)


You should take breaks.


Yes but that doesn't change the argument very much. Even if breaks mitigate strain very well, I'd still want to minimize the strain in the first place, in the vast majority of situations.




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