Light is back!
October 23, 2019
I have been trying dark themes on almost everything - phone (Android dark mode), apps-on-the-phone (Twitter, Slack etc), desktop (Ubuntu dark theme), Opera, Chrome, Terminal, VScode (for code) and what not... And all this starts from a simple concept - dark mode looks good, really good. Unfortunately, the one thing that I have not been able to move to a "comfortable" dark mode is "NetBeans" - the flawed editor I used (for more than a decade) and feel so natural and comfortable in working in it. As an alternate to NetBeans, I got VScode/sublime and what not - for whatever small amount of time that I could work on those, and while those are great in their fields, but I was just not able to find the joy and comfort that I had while using NetBeans. I tried a lot - to make NetBeans dark (using a lot of plugins/options/settings) and also to adapt VScode - but it didn't seem to work as I hoped/expected. In the background of thoughts trying to focus on the actual work/task that I was supposed to do, I have been thinking constantly about NetBeans/VScode/dark-mode... All this background noise was becoming more loud with every passing day and today I decided to shut that noise and go back to "light" mode, discarding all dark-mode settings and the conflict/noise just vanished. "Light is back" - let's get back to work and get shit done.  
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