getpolarized
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Joined 8 years ago
These are still illegal in the US right now right? It's been a major criticism of these laws that they can hurt people accidentally.
The texture we have of Chess history for example is part of the allure. That the rules have changed, we know how they changed, why they changed, how people played in the past, etc.
The amount of people that personally attack you and accuse you of horrible things should be zero.
I've also seen users personally using our forums to try to get the software for free and complaining it costs too much money.
As soon as it's clear that one of the developers is listening they go quiet but it's super disheartening when your community, which should be supporting you, feels so entitled.
It MIGHT have been possible but Occam's Razor says it's more plausible it evolved naturally and just jumped species.
FAR FAR FAR more plausible.
For example, requiring all airline passengers or anyone leaving their state to be vaccinated and vaccinating frontline workers including those that work at grocery stores, etc.
https://getpolarized.io/2019/11/19/Dark-Mode-Should-Be-The-D...
The idea being, if you were FORCED to pick one, would you rather have light or dark mode.
90% preferred dark mode with nearly 1000 votes.
That blew me away honestly.
Before that I thought that dark mode was a 'nice to have' but clearly I was wrong.
The other issue isn't just dark mode but 'true black' mode for mobile devices and OLED. True black just looks better on mobile devices.
Most dark mode skins can usually be converted to true black but you have to make sure the fonts don't become too strong.
... Being a tech geek means my nostalgia memories are 'weird' by normal standards.
Super happy now thinking about the time I first installed Growl
https://getpolarized.io/2020/10/05/Polar-2-0-Release.html
the issue we had was that we were using a CSS filter like other commenters mentioned.
The problem is that it inverts images too and pdfjs doesn't actually specify which parts of the document are an image as it's just writing to a canvas.
My plan moving forward is to fix pdfjs so it can invert natively and the actual canvas is inverted so that images won't be inverted.
I think figures would STILL be a problem though.
EPUBs are much easier and we're not inverting there because we can see which one is an img.
This is the interesting thing about Open Source is you get interesting developments like this that you didn't anticipate!
The link is: https://getpolarized.io/download/
We've also tried to make it pretty cheap so if you have a huge repo it won't be super expensive. It also won't bloat your local computer so if you have a large repository most of that data will be on the cloud.
https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf
If you'd like to look at the code.
We have a unique build environment so DM me on Discord if you want to build it... You just have to use lerna and our npm repo but should work well.
The code actually is written to be portable as a 'web extension' as both Safari and Firefox use the same general API.
I'll try to get some time and see if it works on Firefox. The biggest issue we have is testing. If something breaks on FF I want to know and we don't have a testing environment there.
Imagine if it was inverted. It would look like a MASSIVE eyeball staring at us during our evolution.
Imagine how that would have impacted religion!