As a reward for picking up all of their toys, my children were each given some bubble wrap to play with.

Update: I’ve found an easier implementation that preserves the link function for the dark mode version of your logo.

With iOS 13 just weeks away, I’ve been busy making sure that all of my websites are dark mode compatible. I should’ve been working on this over the past year, but there’s no time like the present!

I’m grateful to the Micro.blog community and all of the CSS junkies who have shared code to make it easy for us to enable dark mode on our personal blogs. It feels great to be at the bleeding edge of web design!

I’m using a custom version of the Kiko theme, which is mostly the original design with a few minor adjustments. I posted the snippets and instructions for how to enable dark mode on Kiko (even if you’re just using the built-in standard version) two months ago, but there was something missing.

I have a logo at the top of my blog. It’s my signature orange bow tie logo that I use on all of my work on the Internet, along with my name. On my blog, I have my name written in black, and it looks great on a white background! In dark mode, however, it looks really bad.

I turned to our old friend, CSS, to get me through this problem. First, I created and uploaded two versions of my logo: a light mode version and a dark mode version.

Now all I had to do was add the Custom CSS to overwrite the light mode logo hard coded into the HTML in the theme files with the dark mode logo.

Here’s my CSS:

 .masthead-title {
content: url(https://chetjcollins.com/uploads/2019/02c28d1ca2.png);
 height: 154px; 
 width: 560px; }

I added that CSS within the dark mode @media query and, boom! Now when a visitor is using dark mode in their browser, the same orange bowtie logo shows up, but this time, my name is much more readable.

This took a lot of work and trial and error, but as usual, when it clicked, it felt amazing!

Known issues: This substitution will break the home page link that Kiko gives your logo/profile picture. If this is a deal breaker for you, take a look at this method.

I hope that you find this helpful!

CSS is incredible.

Beautiful evening for a walk.

Two news stories I’m tired of hearing about:

• Brexit
• 737 MAX

Dishes, like laundry, can only be neglected for so long.

Apple Watch sleep tracking revealed: sleep quality, battery, more - 9to5Mac

When wearing the Watch during bedtime, if the user wakes up and starts their day before their alarm goes off, it will automatically turn off the alarm. The alarm will also play only on Apple Watch, using the iPhone as a backup. There will also be an option to use a silent alarm that only vibrates the Apple Watch. The new bedtime system will enable Do Not Disturb automatically when the user goes to bed. There will also be a new complication available for sleep tracking.

Yes to all of this!

The state of gaming on macOS is really sad. Almost every game that I bought on the MAS in the last four years is no longer available, even for redownloading. Not sure if Apple Arcade can rise to the challenge, but I’ll keep an open mind.

Bill McGurn, writing for his Main Street column in The Wall Street Journal.

the clarity of the pro-life proposition—the insistence that each of these lives is no less precious than any other human life

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking and writing about the universality of the dignity of the human person. Seeing every person for who they are, worthy of dignity and respect, is a powerful countermeasure to our worst inclinations.

Holding a physical book while reading is deeply satisfying.

The Fitbit data export is completely useless. What a lousy company.

I wish I knew how to get my Micro.blog to swap out my logo when a user is in dark mode. I have most of the pieces, I just don’t know how to make them fit.

Quiet afternoon on the prairie.

A delightful sunrise to start my day.

I have a package coming via FedEx SmartPost. It’s origin was 90 minutes from my house. It was picked up on Thursday at 5:24am. It’s scheduled for delivery by 8:00pm on Tuesday. Nothing is more damaging to the FedEx brand than SmartPost.

My 5 year old just came in and asked if he could watch Apollo 11.