Have you ever wondered how dark mode came to be? It’s a convoluted story of corporate gaslighting, display technologies, grassroots online ecological movements, and how repackaging the meaningful into the sellable can propel a movement into the mainstream while stripping it of its original goal. In this video, Chris Kalos visits dark mode’s dark past and uncovers the untold story of dark mode.

This emacs package automatically synchronizes the Emacs theme with GNOME's color scheme - dimagid/gnome-dark-style

Our devices consume energy when we surf the web, but the causal relationships between web design and energy use remain unclear.

Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot

Dark screens used to be a necessity, now they’re a sleek display option. What happened in between?