More dark tools

As you know, dark-mode is more than just asthetics., and I recently found two more tools to help with that.

Invert image color.

The dark reader browser extension works relatively well for the text and background, but it really struggles with images. I recently stumbled upon Invert image color..

It adds a entry on right-click to invert the colors the images. See the results by yourself.

However, it has two drawbacks. First, it is a per-image post-loading action. This means that you are still hit a massive amount of white pixels before being able to invert the image. Moreover, on article with many pages, it can get tiresome to invert all the images.

More annoyingly, sometimes it can change whole page colors, instead of the just image.

It often result in bright page (because Dark-reader made it dark in the first place). or completely dark pages (see the image above). The only solution is then to temporarily disable Dark-reader on the page, annoying.

But overall, it is still positive tool in my toolbox.

Buildroot menuconfig options

I regularly uses Buildroot at work and uses menuconfig to configure things. The default colors are blue and gray, which are light colors, making it hard for me to use.

I found out that themes are available and make MENUCONFIG_COLOR=blackbg menuconfig will bring a terminal with a black background and red colors.