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A while back I posted about the GUI version (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15087244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15087244) but I’m realizing the

A while back I posted about the GUI version (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15087244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15087244) but I’m realizing the CLI tool is probably more appropriate for the HN crowd. Themer is a set of npm packages that allow for generating custom, matching themes for many of your development tools (editors, terminal emulators, desktop/device wallpaper, Slack sidebar, Chrome theme, Alfred, etc.). A custom color palette can be used, or there are a number of pre-built palettes to choose from.

StavrosK 9y ago
Given that my thoughts while looking at the repo were "please don't be js, please don't be js, please don't be... fuck" (don't want to install the whole node toolchain), I'm very glad that a website exists. However, it seems to be down :(
- mjswensen 9y ago
  Hah, what are the odds. I post this and 10 minutes later zeit.co's Now service goes down. :( But the site is just informational--if you don't want to install the Node toolchain, you can use the GUI wrapper around themer (https://github.com/mjswensen/themer-gui https://github.com/mjswensen/themer-gui), a cross platform app built on Electron. There are downloadable builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux (https://github.com/mjswensen/themer-gui/releases https://github.com/mjswensen/themer-gui/releases).
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    Oh fantastic, that works, thank you!
    - mjswensen 9y ago
      No problem!
- methodin 9y ago
  There's a great tool called Docker which allows you to not have to worry or care about a toolchain.
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    Yeah, for something infrequently-used like this it makes sense, but it doesn't work for frequently-used utilities. I wouldn't want to be running grep in Docker, for example. One of these days I'm going to have to look into setting that up, though, hopefully it won't be hard.

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A while back I posted about the GUI version (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15087244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15087244) but I’m realizing the

by mjswensen 9y ago

StavrosK 9y ago
Given that my thoughts while looking at the repo were "please don't be js, please don't be js, please don't be... fuck" (don't want to install the whole node toolchain), I'm very glad that a website exists. However, it seems to be down :(
- mjswensen 9y ago
  Hah, what are the odds. I post this and 10 minutes later zeit.co's Now service goes down. :( But the site is just informational--if you don't want to install the Node toolchain, you can use the GUI wrapper around themer (https://github.com/mjswensen/themer-gui https://github.com/mjswensen/themer-gui), a cross platform app built on Electron. There are downloadable builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux (https://github.com/mjswensen/themer-gui/releases https://github.com/mjswensen/themer-gui/releases).
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    Oh fantastic, that works, thank you!
    - mjswensen 9y ago
      No problem!
- methodin 9y ago
  There's a great tool called Docker which allows you to not have to worry or care about a toolchain.
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    Yeah, for something infrequently-used like this it makes sense, but it doesn't work for frequently-used utilities. I wouldn't want to be running grep in Docker, for example. One of these days I'm going to have to look into setting that up, though, hopefully it won't be hard.