I have recently seen some discussion about the use of night mode tech, and had the thought that developers ought to get together and standardise its use, seeing as how commonplace it has become. Photo by Claudio Testa on Unsplash Types of Night Mode Dark Interfaces This is when the designer or developer of an application build in a special interface where the colours are darker. In a simple sense, this could be as simple as inverting black-on-white test to white-on-black text. Dark vs Light modes in Vivaldi & Wikipedia Other applications will have a deeper dark theme created which changes every aspect of the application or website's interface, not just the text, to reduce the amount of whiteness that the screen displays....

I thought I would share some tips on how to cut down the amount of time spent on social media, and why you might want to do so. I've based these points partly on observations of myself and others, and also some articles I have read in the past. Image by Alvaro Reyes Curbing Social Media There are many reasons to use social media. It could be to keep in touch with friends and family that would otherwise be hard to contact get news (assuming you haven't forgotten how to think critically when browsing the web) consume content like video series and webcomics. see what celebrities are up to and keep up with gossip. But social media can make people feel worse, can distract people, can even be an outright addiction. Cutting out, or even just curbing its use could be of great benefit to a lot of people....

I’ve just completed my internship at Vivaldi and am about to go back to University. I am currently studying towards a Bachelor Degree in Informatics: Language and Communication at the University of Oslo. This year will be my third and final year. At University I am learning to program and more, and it’s great to see how I can use all this knowledge in a work situation. Everything I’ve learned at University has been relevant for the work I did at Vivaldi. When you know how to program, complicated software bugs are easier to understand...

For every page you visit in Vivaldi a color is selected. Currently the engine takes two types of input—a favicon and meta theme-color. The ten most frequently used colors are extracted from the favicon, resulting in a list of up to 11 (including theme-colour). They are then rated by the following criteria: Is the contrast good enough? Is the color a midtone? Is the color saturated? A perfect score here is not very hard to get, and will give a color 150 points. Additionally, the top three colors are given a bonus multiplier. After all, it means they occur more frequently in the favicon, so they are more likely to be relevant. If present, the theme-color is given an additional bonus...

Summer interns can easily end up with the most boring jobs but not at Vivaldi. Interns here get the liberty to experiment and play around with different tasks every day. And not just play but implement. I spent the first weeks in the QA team getting to know the different products and functions. Towards the end, I started to dig into the code and learn JavaScript and React. Internships at Vivaldi last two months. Being here for this length of time means you get to know the product really well...

If you are like me, then all help is welcome to increase your productivity and focus. For me, it always has been a problem. While working on a dull task, I get distracted by everything around me. Checking emails, watching a youtube video, tinkering with software settings and configurations... Everything seems more fun than the task at hand. Only when I'm working on something that passionates me or rather annoys me, I can focus 100%...

One of the most exciting things about doing an internship is being able to apply what you’ve learned at University to actual projects and tasks. In my case, it was working on a mobile browser design which would be used by people all over the world. (Yes, you heard me right!) By the same token, you find out what skills you lack and need to work on when you go back to University after the end of the internship. For example, I realized the importance of markup language and style sheet language that I neglected in my studies. Many people have suggested that “visual and UX/UI designers need to understand HTML and CSS too”, but I had not found this necessary until working in the real industry, at Vivaldi. Now I know what to focus on in the coming semesters...

Items you should receive along with your new SH3. Here are some helpful tips for getting the most out of your new Virgin Media "Super" Hub 3, based on my experiences dealing with it and my findings from a lot of searching through internet forums. Collated here to save you some time. I wish I had known these from the beginning. Glossary: SH - Super Hub (the brand of network devices offered by Virgin Media) VM - Virgin Media (Communication Services Provider in the UK) STB - Set Top Box (A box that attaches to a TV to offer services such as Cable TV or Internet Video Streaming) GHz - Giga Hertz (A measure of frequency) WiFi - A wireless network WiFi band - A specific frequency the WiFi uses, much like that of a radio station Ethernet - A wired network Tip 0: Turn it off and on again I hate it when tech doesn't work exactly the way it should. Indeed, any tech that spuriously develops faults should be avoided. However, you don't have much of a choice if you want to connect to VM cable other than to use their modem, and I've found VM tech to often develop issues that can be solved with a power cycle....