R.I.P. Your Backlog

If everything is going to plan and your operating system is in dark mode, then randsinrepose.com is now dark for you. If you are a light mode person, you can click on the Moon in the upper right of the navigation and experience dark mode stylings. Click again to return. Why now? Well, I was finishing the Blade Runner piece last week, and as I sat there figuring out the ending, dark mode popped back in my head. As I’m apt to do these days, I fired up the robots to investigate building dark mode. We had a working version in about an hour. In three hours, I had a version I shared with friends for feedback, and by the evening the same day, dark mode was mostly done. It was most certainly not a “write one prompt and let the robots do their magic.” There were myriad design choices, there was CSS to untangle, caches needed busting, and there were bugs. Lots of them. Half day. Voilà! Dark mode. My plan wasn’t to say anything about dark mode except on the About page because dark mode is old…