@chriskrycho The `light-dark()` CSS function might be of interest to you: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value/light-dark

UPDATE: I previously stated that it doesn’t work with unregistered custom properties, but it does, the compute timing would just be different (i.e. unregistered custom properties don’t compute until used, while registered compute when set, so an inherited value could work differently).

@knowler Ah, thank you—`light-dark()` might do the trick! I believe per the docs it’ll even “just work” with `@media`. Neat! Thank you—I knew I had seen *something* in this space in the past couple of years, but couldn’t recall *what*.

The only thing I use SCSS for anymore is this pattern for theming:

```scss
@mixin light {
/* light theme vars */
}

:root,
.light:root {
@Include light();
}

@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
@Include light();
}

/* same for dark */
```

Anybody have a good alternative here?

This will be fun! I’m pacing the 1:40 finish time at the Colorado Springs Half Marathon on October 4. You should come run it! It’s a great race! https://runsignup.com/Race/CO/ColoradoSprings/cosmarathon?raceRefCode=VaDmS10X

A quick note of my own this morning expanding on Robin Sloan’s excellent note on “Platform Reality” and Substack—or, briefly, why I’m sticking to the open web and you should too. https://v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/platform-reality/

🦀 If anyone wants to make their first contribution to crates.io and, by extension, the Rust project, here are two issues that are well suited for newcomers:

https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/11349

https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/11348

#rustlang

OMG Google, you're desperate. What you just did is exactly *why* I just started to pay for Kagi.

This is to say nothing of the Dev Beta 1 UI artifacting; that’s kind of expected and I am sure they’ll get it sorted out. It’s just that the entire idea of “getting out of the way of your content” is a bit upside down when it comes to the “tool” parts of the UI—I need to see those so I can use them!

Have to say: #OrionBrowser looks way better than Safari on the iOS 26 beta… because it hasn’t adopted all (any!) of the new styling elements. There are some neat ideas in the Liquid Glass stuff, but nearly all of them would be better layered on top of classic elements instead of replacing them.

@dsully Never more grateful for modern build systems like Cargo than when I look at C or C++ code bases using CMake or Autoconf.

I really didn’t expect to be reading a `CMakeLists.txt` file today, but here we are. 😂

I’ve been at Vanta about 2 months, and so far:

• Every single person I’ve worked with has been both kind and competent. That’s big.
• The business matters: making the internet more secure!
• There’s a *lot* of work to do to make this thing scale!

Come work with me: https://www.vanta.com/company/careers

I give you: the Node.js ecosystem, circa 2012, by way of the name of one package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/from

on the off chance anyone _else_ wants to relive the moment of bootstrapping rust 14 years ago:
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/317484.html

Just published `true-myth-zod`: a tiny little #TypeScript library that provides a nice integration between True Myth and Zod.

You can call `parserFor(SomeZodSchema)` where `SomeZodSchema` will produce `AType` and get back a function `(data: unknown) => Result<AType, ZodError>`. There’s also `asyncParserFor` for use with Zod schemas with async; it will give you a True Myth `Task`.

This is nothing you couldn’t write yourself, but it is *really nice*!

A bit more here:
https://v5.chriskrycho.com/elsewhere/true-myth-zod/

we have both agency and responsibility as builders and users of technology; because I am measured and restrained in my evaluations; because I do not believe the (apparent or actual) utility of a technology is the only relevant consideration. (2/2)

Posted: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/telling/

I think it’s very telling that a lot of people treat me as anti-AI and anti-LLM just because I am not vigorously pro-LLM: because I want to approach new technologies in careful, measured ways; because I do not believe the myth of technological inevitability and instead affirm that… (1/2)

I think #Apple made a very *pretty* new UI design for their OSes 26… but it has some serious functional deficits. As some colleagues were commenting about a hard design problem yesterday at Vanta: you have to #design for the *most challenging* version of a given bit of UI. In our case, massive amounts of data. In Apple’s case, not just the nicest backgrounds that work best with so much transparency, but the most “hostile” backgrounds, content, etc. that work *worst* with so much transparency!

Wherein I advocate for complaining about Apple's OS redesigns immediately, if not sooner: https://aleenmean.com/2025/06/10/the-clock-is-ticking/

Now is the best time to give Apple feedback. https://wandering.shop/@aleen/114661379112969037