The sun is setting on computers. In October, Google finally—finally—rolled out a new black-background view for its Calendar app. This is just the latest in a string of recent software darkenings. In July, Wikipedia went light-on-dark. And a few years before that, we got dark-theme Google Search. Since 2017, night has fallen on Slack, Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and mobile Gmail too. Even Microsoft went dark. One by one, the bright, white backgrounds that have defined these and all computer interfaces since the advent of the Macintosh have been slipping into the shadows… More here.

I have almost everything in dark mode now and have done so for some time. My Mac experience is dark 24 hours a day and so is my iPhone and iPad. Slowly I am starting to manage making everything dark on my work Windows laptop, but that is proving a bit more tricky.

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