For a long time I have been a big fan of Sarah Drasner’s theme for Visual Studio Code, and even used a port of it in Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition.
Ever since I’ve started learning .Net Framework on both Linux and Windows, I ’ve also started using the default Visual Studio 2019 theme in both the IDE, and the editor. Simply because I like unity across the developer tools I use.
So, as you may or may not know, GitHub is testing themes for its website, and the feature is now in beta according to GitHub Docs.
To change how your GitHub looks, you need to log in to your GitHub account, click your profile pictures, choose Settings > Appearance and on the section that opens, choose one of the three themes that are currently available.
Visual Studio Code (or simply vscode, or even code) is an editor developed by Microsoft. The editor was released back in 2015 and by now is considered one of the best if not the best code editors for web development and software engineering out there. I admit, I used Vim for a bit, but switched back to vscode+vim plugin for better .NET development experience and modern IDE features, since I work with .Net nowadays. This powerful code editor has become essential for programming productivity and developer workflows. I am going to tell you about my favorite set of plugins in one of my next posts.
To be honest with you, as a long time Linux user and open source enthusiast, at first I was hesitant to use a free code editor developed by a company that makes proprietary software. But I gave it a try when a Linux version of it was released, and I have no regrets now. VSCode has become the go-to development environment for programmers across different platforms.
I have always tried and followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in every project I worked on. It’s not always an easy thing to do, but Web Accessibility (WA) is very important for modern web development and responsive design, as we all have difficulties when interacting with a computer or mobile screen, in one way or the other. For example, my eyesight is dropping as I am approaching the age of forty.
Let’s dive deeper into the topic of mobile friendliness and why it matters.
The official guide on how to deploy your website to Netlify for static site hosting and continuous deployment, which can be found here, explains the required steps for modern web development workflows:
And it’s really as simple as that. The very blog you are exploring at the moment is deployed on Netlify too, and the website performance score is pretty great for SEO and user experience, as you can see on Test My Site:
Back in 2021, when I first considered adding a content management system to my static site, I evaluated several options. Netlify CMS (now called Decap CMS) was a popular choice, but at the time, it didn’t fully support my then-framework of choice, Statiq Web. The integration required workarounds that felt fragile, and I decided to stick with writing content directly in Markdown files.
Managing content on static sites has always presented a unique challenge. Unlike dynamic CMS platforms like WordPress, static sites generate HTML at build time, which means there’s no database-driven content management out of the box. For developers comfortable with Markdown and Git, this is rarely an issue. However, for non-technical content creators or for quick edits on the go, a graphical interface becomes valuable.
