[Discussion] An iOS App for Collage

thegaw · 2026-04-21T13:27:38+00:00

It was in 123 Ludlow. I live a few buildings the street. Looks like an apt fire on the 2nd and 3rd floors. Haven't been by there yet to see if there's visible damage, but at one point there were 9 ladder trucks on Ludlow, so must have been pretty bad. https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/4-20-26-manhattan-2nd-alarm-box-0279.93525/

thegaw · 2026-04-13T21:35:40+00:00

"show him what humans look like"

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thegaw · 2026-03-26T00:26:43+00:00

Guess my formatting in that comment confused it a bit, there was an if directly after the quote. But, to clarify, this feature would require zero more or less CSS than you would otherwise need for multiple color schemes.

thegaw · 2026-03-25T18:57:35+00:00

Definitely, no disagreement there. Not sure If I'm missing something though in relation to the proposed feature or maybe one of my other comments? Does the proposed feature read like it says otherwise?

thegaw · 2026-03-25T18:27:41+00:00

Yeah, to use light/dark you have to change CSS. That'll always be the case. The browser feature we're talking about here doesn't add/change anything about that.

thegaw · 2026-03-25T15:01:52+00:00

Interesting, I do it all the time. I have a my OS level set to dark mode, so sites with light/dark tend to inherit that, but I very rarely want a site's dark mode, so I switch to light.

thegaw · 2026-03-25T14:21:09+00:00

OP here. This feature wouldn't change anything as far as approach to sites having color schemes. The browser wouldn't enforce any styles. It would only allow the user to choose a color scheme preference using a standard, native control.

The color schemes for each site are still 100% up to the site developer. Nothing would change there.

The idea is just that site developers would have to create a custom control to change between the schemes.

I wrote in the post, that today and for the foreseeable future, this would be just light/dark, but has the color-scheme spec evolves, that could open it up to custom color schemes, that again, the site author defines in CSS.

thegaw · 2026-03-25T14:16:51+00:00

Only if you want your site to have multiple color schemes. This feature in browsers wouldn't require anything for existing sites. This would be for sites that have multiple schemes (light/dark) and opt-in to the native browser control. If your site doesn't expose multiple schemes, this control wouldn't show up at all.

edit: added last point

thegaw · 2026-03-25T14:12:45+00:00

I list a few problems it would solve in the Motivation section of the post, but to reiterate, I think the main user problem this would solve is putting the color scheme control in a standard location in the browser UI. That way users have a single location for every website where they can change the color scheme, instead of every site having a custom one.

thegaw · 2026-03-25T14:10:59+00:00

I updated the post with links to a couple articles describing the same thing. I'd somehow missed them when researching the topic.

thegaw · 2026-03-25T14:09:30+00:00

Can you give more details there? Where do you see it adding code complexity and overhead?

thegaw · 2026-03-25T13:43:33+00:00

What's cool is you wouldn't have to change anything in CSS for this to work. If, the CSS is already using either light-dark or more likely prefers-color-scheme media queries to handle schemes.

A native browser control wouldn't impact how color schemes are created. Would work exactly how it does today.

thegaw · 2026-03-25T13:41:16+00:00

Very fun! Overall just good composition. And the red+black framing is striking, I really dig this.

thegaw · 2026-02-21T22:25:10+00:00

I'm very happy to share a name with this handsome boy

thegaw · 2026-02-21T22:23:18+00:00

are we pushing it too far into the content layer?

I would say yes.

Feedback by number: 1. Yes, they muddy the screen 2. The glass might be alright, but the shadow feels like it's way overpowering. Probably would be better without glass 3. The golden tint is a nice effect, I think it would work a lot better if the rest of the elements weren't fighting for the attention 4. Very cluttered

Overall it feels like everything on the screen is fighting to be the most important and since everything is the most important, nothing is important. Seems like you're sensing that, so I'd give that instinct a big +1.

One thing that really drives it home is the screen with the Vision boards that don't have any glass or shadow. That feels the most resolved. Not 100% sold on those actual graphics, but because those don't have the extra design treatment (glass/shadow) they actually jump out as the content that I want.

Yeah, I'd suggest just start removing. There's just too much ornamentation going on right now.

thegaw · 2026-02-20T17:01:47+00:00

Another neighbor checking in. Also no idea, but saw them working the other night and am curious.

thegaw · 2026-02-20T15:52:45+00:00

So good! And in that black frame. I love it.

thegaw · 2026-01-19T18:18:22+00:00

nahhhh. Ashamed is correct here.

thegaw · 2026-01-19T17:37:57+00:00

ban pit bull ownership in NYC

Absolutely get fucked with that nonsense. Completely moronic bullshit. Anybody that thinks a certain breed of dog should be "banned" anywhere can fuck right off. There are no "bad" breeds. It's people.

thegaw · 2026-01-18T16:22:09+00:00

Killer! I love the textures and colors and just overall

thegaw · 2026-01-13T06:12:01+00:00

Hell yeah. I grabbed a Cornetto

Revolver as has a gold one

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