Flux Timing |
November 6th, 2014 |
| ideas, tech |
Apps that make your screen dimmer and redder at night are pretty
useful. Blue light wakes you up, so you want to minimize it when
you're going to sleep. Unfortunately, these apps default to following
the sun while the people using them generally wake up after sunrise
and go to bed long after sunset. At work I look around at 4:30pm and
I see screens going red, but I doubt my coworkers want to start
getting sleepy already. Our schedules are offset from the sun, and
our technology should be too: things should shift red a couple hours
before bed, and blue when it's time to wake up.
With Twilight (Android) I can just set the hours to dim, but with Flux (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS) it just asks where you are. I can tell it I'm in a city that's west of where I am, but I don't want seasonal variation. Which is funny: matching sunrise and sunset for a location was probably a fun technical problem for the developers and I suspect they're proud they got it right, but it's not actually helpful if your life isn't tied to the sun.
Comment via: google plus, facebook, substack