Why should I create a program to protect my eyes?

Zhihau Shiu
1 min readApr 10, 2022
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  • I like coding whole day. The habit makes my eyes more eye strain. I’m curious. How often do you use a digital device that tire your eyes more? I found 20–20–20 rule good for the eyes. Every 20 minutes look 20 feet away at something for 20 seconds.
  • So I design a program using autohotkey. Every 20 minutes show a blue screen of death GUI. Closing GUI after 20 seconds automatically. Or Pressing esc key to exit the program. It is helpful to remind you take a break. You can drink some coffee or tea🍵. Drink something will make you feel better. You get more energy for your next tasks.
  • Why I use blue screen of death GUI as a reset hint? I always see the blue screen, when my computer has some trouble. It means the computer was crashed. It can not work for me. Give up! I can’t do anything when I lost my computer. 😰
  • This is the protect-eyes repository. Be careful. There is a blue screen that will hurt your eyes. 😂 If you like this story , please give me a round of applause :D.

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Zhihau Shiu

Hi! My name is Zhihau Shiu. I am a developer. I like to build some useful tool for myself. You can find them at Github.Zhihau.