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It’s good to know that I am not alone. There’s this general aspect of not being cool when one is using light theme. How do we tell them that it’s not by choice?

It’s good to know that I am not alone. There’s this general aspect of not being cool when one is using light theme. How do we tell them that it’s not by choice? I really like the look of someone working in that dark theme and tried a lot to force myself into it only to fail miserably and come back to light theme.

inDigiNeous 5y ago
Bro, nobody cares what color scheme you use, if you're confident about how you feel about it. I toggle between dark and light myself in vscode, depending on how I feel, really like the dark and light versions of the Github theme myself.
- suction 5y ago
  I had thought this to be true, but in certain startups with a certain culture, using a light theme will make you look like Dinosaurus who's not able to keep up with the latest tech trends. I know it's dumb, but it is reality in some places.
  - pjerem 5y ago
    That's toxic environment. You should quit that company.
- foobarbaz33 5y ago
  Unfortunately people do care and look down on others based on color theme. Just as some people look down on others not wearing a rolex. Tech is full of blowhards just as everywhere else. Techies using light themes aren't synth wave futuristic a-poc hacker material. On the internet some start up guys were bragging about rejecting a candidate because he wore a collared shirt to the interview. That it showed he would never "get it".
AnthonBerg 5y ago
Most of the time I use a dark theme. With some self-directed sarcasm: I’m a pretty cool guy; I was bullied and I spent the next 20 years learning how to cool. Like my life depended on it. From the amount of time spent multiplied by my dedication I’ve done an ~okay job. idk, as a example: I have a tall, scary-looking high-tech dirtbike on street plates and an Italian two-piece suit of fine gray wool and I show up to work on that. Without appearing to try hard. So I think I have wasted enough of my life on trying very hard to be cool to claim the credentials to say: What is truly not cool is people whose status and social signaling revolves around “dArK tHeMeS aRe CoOl” and turn their little noses up at people getting f…ing work done. Which is cool. :sunglasses_emoji:

inDigiNeous 5y ago

Bro, nobody cares what color scheme you use, if you're confident about how you feel about it. I toggle between dark and light myself in vscode, depending on how I feel, really like the dark and light versions of the Github theme myself.

suction 5y ago
I had thought this to be true, but in certain startups with a certain culture, using a light theme will make you look like Dinosaurus who's not able to keep up with the latest tech trends. I know it's dumb, but it is reality in some places.
- pjerem 5y ago
  That's toxic environment. You should quit that company.
foobarbaz33 5y ago
Unfortunately people do care and look down on others based on color theme. Just as some people look down on others not wearing a rolex. Tech is full of blowhards just as everywhere else. Techies using light themes aren't synth wave futuristic a-poc hacker material. On the internet some start up guys were bragging about rejecting a candidate because he wore a collared shirt to the interview. That it showed he would never "get it".

AnthonBerg 5y ago

Most of the time I use a dark theme. With some self-directed sarcasm: I’m a pretty cool guy; I was bullied and I spent the next 20 years learning how to cool. Like my life depended on it. From the amount of time spent multiplied by my dedication I’ve done an ~okay job. idk, as a example: I have a tall, scary-looking high-tech dirtbike on street plates and an Italian two-piece suit of fine gray wool and I show up to work on that. Without appearing to try hard. So I think I have wasted enough of my life on trying very hard to be cool to claim the credentials to say: What is truly not cool is people whose status and social signaling revolves around “dArK tHeMeS aRe CoOl” and turn their little noses up at people getting f…ing work done. Which is cool. :sunglasses_emoji: