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I made a script you can save as a bookmark, that will allow you to toggle on/off dark mode on any website.
It doesn't always work flawlessly, but 90% of the time it works everytime. I think it works great on HN.
The script:
javascript:(()=>{const i="__dmcss__",s=document.querySelector("#"+i);s?s.remove():document.head.innerHTML += "<style id=\""+i+"\">html{background:white;filter:invert(0.92) hue-rotate(180deg);}img,video,object{filter:invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg);}</style>";})()
How to add: right click bookmarks bar => Add page => paste this in the URL input.
I remember the days I started coding, and how much I enjoyed that. I was able to create things with just the power of my thoughts, and it felt like a superpower.
Nowadays, I feel like I have to jump so many hoops and spend so much mental bandwidth just to get the permission to code. It would be fair to say that on avg I spend less than 20% of my time coding or solving problems.
Any project I work on is connected to a million different tools, workflows and services, that all do things their own way, and everything lives in a totally different place, where it’s hard to monitor what’s going on.
I feel like anything can break at any moment and ruin my day. I don’t understand any of the tools well enough to be confident that it’s stable, and the worst problems are the silent ones. This is giving me anxiety.
I work mostly with Javascript — and that doesn’t help. All the frameworks/libs I use insist on being too flexible, to the point where I don’t know where to start and how to do things. Just show me the “right” way, and let me figure out how to opt out if I want to. Oh and every 10 minutes there is a new tool that pops up that does things differently.
I wish I could go back to the days where I spent most of my day in the IDE and at the end produce something that was (to me) amazing. My most challenging moments were when I had a tough logic problem to solve — but I enjoyed those immensely. I’d rather fight with my brain than with the tools I use.
I wish I could just use an IDE that takes care of all the crap for me and just lets me code and write business logic.
I now understand why there’s a trend of developers who want to go live in a farm or take up woodworking: tough(er) problems, but with less variables & easier to reason about. If the wood breaks, you can see where and can probably guess why. Making a table is a mostly linear set of steps, and the basic tools you use don’t change much throughout the years. There is no invisible ghost that lives in a separate realm (dev environment) that can ruin your work at any time and leave no trace.
Any insights? Should I just switch careers?
document.documentElement.style.filter = "invert()"
document.documentElement.style.background = '#fff'
Edit: you can also create a bookmark with the code below in the URL field
javascript: (() => { document.documentElement.style.filter = "invert()";document.documentElement.style.background = '#fff' })();
Then just click on the bookmark for instant dark mode