dark style
In my first post, play, I was having difficulties with getting an alternative dark-mode set up in the CSS for the blog. Why? Well mainly because I don't actually know any CSS.
I have arrived at a stage of being able to change—and understand where to change—the existing Bear Blog CSS themes to get something close to what I want. I arrived there from occasional forays into reading other blogger's posts and 'borrowing' little sections of code.
However, I wouldn't be able to write a line of CSS if you gave me a blank sheet to start off with. I know nothing of its syntax of curly brackets and colons, and how exactly it likes things to be.
Actually, that goes for modern programming of any sort. I missed out on learning that sort of stuff. I mean, I did do Computer Studies, but computers were all powered by steam or rubber bands then, and it wasn't that long after punched card programming. In my working career I had nothing to do with computers, except for filling out the occasional form.
And besides, I have issues with doing anything in a specified and exact manner. I'm intelligent and logical enough to learn the workflows and code needed, but my brain is just too wandery to focus for long. Two minutes concentrating on learning anything, then something clicks the 'bored now' switch, and off it goes to explore the rest of the universe. Meanwhile, I'm sat there wondering why I can no longer see any logic and processes.
Many might send a query off to some AI service or other to help them get to grips with what they need, but I am in the same 'Nope' corner with AI as I am with 'smart' things in the house.
These things only work for the company that is deploying them, in order to generate profitable returns on what they cost to deploy. Or in the case of AI, promise to generate anyway. One day. The rest of us have to do the correcting, at our cost, to whatever they've severely cocked up.
And there is nothing smart in my house thank you very much.
Anyway, it turns out, with the help of the manual method of learning—by viewing the page source of other people's blogs in my browser and applying my 'own solutions' via copy and paste—that I was two closing curly brackets short of a full section of pasted CSS statements.
I looked and looked at that section of code hundreds of times since trying to add it, and I wasn't seeing the problem with it at all. This morning, I looked again and it was obvious. Two curly brackets, to close the section dealing with the colours in dark-mode.
Hello, that sounds like a good phrase to describe me.
"Who's that?"
"Oh, that's Hallworth. Don't mind him, he's two curly brackets short of his CSS."
Anyway, after all that, there is now alternative dark-mode colouring on this site. Which I expect you already knew if you're running in dark-mode anyway.
So this post wasn't really needed at all.
post link for sharing: https://hallworth.bearblog.dev/dark-style
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