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      Ahhh this is so good!!

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      In my own personal and subjective experiments, I came to the opposite conclusion. Light themes rock. Some of friends who did similar tests complained about their eyes hurting. Upon checking it out, we realized that the problem was not really the light theme but the display brightness and the colorscheme. People often mix light theme with “LET’S BLIND THE USER WITH A WHITE BACKGROUND!” and their brightness set to supernova levels. That doesn’t work at all.

      Light themes is not about them being white, it is about choosing lighter shades. The sweet spot for me is pastel colours. Choosing subtle pastels made my editor of choice much more pleasing to use. A good example of pastel interfaces are old HP Vue and CDE screenshots. Yes, there were dark themes for them, but most themes were towards the light part of the spectrum. Plan9 also makes good use of pastels.

      I advise people not to be turned out from lighter themes by this post, try it out for yourselves, but for for subtle shades, not for high contrast white backgrounds. Heck, the linked theme is using #ffffff as the background, that alone will make your eyes hurt a ton. Remember most of your screen real state is background, choose a pleasing tone.

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        Yes I love a nice pastel – I was vibing with #ffffef for a long time. Plan9 has the best pastel scheme.

        Also +1 to turning down the brightness – I have my screen at about 30% unless I’m outside in the sun.

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        Thanks for this reply soapdog! I have honestly been trying out light modes in everything for months, on and off, and this is nice to know!

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        Well said

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      It took me a while to realize the main URL from which the text file comes from is just a stylized RSS feed.

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        Oh wow, yeah! I just tried viewing the source for that page. that’s really awesome!

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      gosh i hope they file against facebook too…

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      wordpress is quite usable if you do intend to make a blog. if you do use it, avoid all plugins. almost all wordpress vulnerabilities are found in plugins, not the core code.

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        Good to know!

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      I have biboumi set up on my personal xmpp server and am setting it up for tilde.team’s xmpp server as well. It’s a very slick option for using irc that I would use 24/7 if I weren’t so invested in my weechat setup :P a la https://m.xkcd.com/1782/

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        That’s really awesome! i do love my weechat setup as well haha! what are you using for xmpp on your weechat? i’ve only ever seen that one python thing someone wrote on github

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          i use bitlbee - it’s quite nice

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      RSS /feeds aside, I love these /uses and /now ideas, because it makes your homepage more “social”, and I just love the idea of social homepages. Keeps people out of things like facebook, instagram, etc.

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        true!

        I added one: https://chrisman.github.io/feeds.html

        I have a /now page on my gopherhole I should copy over.

        Started writing a /uses a while ago.. I should finish that one up :)

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          Yesss. I’m gonna try and do similar stuff! I just have to figure out how to do it without my navigation links looking crowded. I’m already on the brink of not liking how many I have right now hahaha

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      i certainly vouche for this

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      woa this is awesome. thanks for this!

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      I was actually snooping around this yesterday! It looks so cool! I couldn’t tell if it’s focus was around decentralized wikis, but then I saw that it does something similar to the Pigeon Protocol, where it lists possible software ideas, which basically included a bunch of social network stuff :D, so I got even more stoked haha.