When your IDE is in dark mode but every webpage you visit has a white background... And alt-tabbing makes your eyes bleed.

Every time

I know someone from Uni who used a green text on red background IDE to make sure the colourblind person sat next to him couldn't copy his code...

My client wants a jpg image with a transparent background !!!!!!!

TFW trying to delete something, but some random background program has a unclosed handle on it

I got fired for not making the background of our website blue

when your boss has no technical background so animations WOW him

My colleague left her PC unlocked with an open project so I changed all her IDE colors to white. White text on white background! 😈

Tired of staring at white background in github.
Searched for dark theme extension.
Guess what... My github is now dark.
FTW

I just found out that in our old GUI everything is derived from button :/

Table is a button

Background is a button

Icon is a button

:/

I dream of a world where the 'dark background' is set by default.

is it just me or do these white background icons piss anyone else off?

I use pictures of clouds as the background for anything related to cloud computing

!rant
What do you think of my setup?
(Excuse the cables in the background, I’ll fix them soon)

VS Code update: "Wishing Merry Christmas"
Really love that background blur.

Some people reduce the number of programs running in the background.

I just add another 8 gigs of RAM.

How web developers debug their markup...

.someBox {
background-color: pink;
}

Boss man: your code has issues , you should strive to have lesser bugs.

Me: GTA was made due to a bug in the their code.
*mic drop, leaves office, clapping heard in background*

😂

Love is a background running process

Because as a person without a dev background she laughs at all of the same devRant stuff that I do!

Dev rant needs dark background with white text

"Oh c'mon, my 14 yr old son can change background color of entire website and you're charging me extra for simple face detection feature?"

The first time I tried to use an image as a background, this happened and it freaked me out lmao. Then I realized my mistake

When someone changes your IDE background color to white

Coming from C# background, I don't think I will ever be able to consider Java code beautiful 🙄🙄

Strangely the client doesn't mind my background...

I sent and email of some code to someone, and when I coppied from VScode into the Email Cliant it saved the Background Color + Syntax Highlighting 😆

Coming from a C# background, where Visual Studio would warn me about errors even before compiling the program, Javascript was quite a shock.

People who claims "XXX is slow" should put screenshots of:

- CPU/MEM stats
- Task bar in full, to see how much crap is in background
- Desktop, to see how clean your computer is

If you don't have i7/16GB or you install gazillion of background apps, then your "slow" argument is simply not valid.

You: working on a terminal with a black background and green foreground
Girl: sees the console "are you a hacker?"
You: 🎶..all around me are familiar faces..🎶

Asked client for a PNG of their logo. Client sends png with a white background -.-

New random background image for my homepage.

Dunno where I found my inspiration, just opened inkscape and started clinking the mouse

Switched jobs, new company uses svn. Coming from a git background.. Life is hard now.

Adding borders to HTML elements? Nah.

I put them in a parent element with a background color, then add margin to the child.

I've seen this image a couple of times, and now people even have it as their desktop background. Have fun with your corrupted file systems :')

Rant rant = new Rant
rant.isRant = false // !!!

I woke up this morning after not thinking about my code for a day, and realized i had a flaw in my validation design. I fixed it before opening my eyes.

It's kind of amazing how not thinking about a problem can help solve it. Even if you don't know it's there!

I fucking hate it when some websites start playing unstoppable fkin music in the background 👿👿

He forgot to logout so basically changed his background and filled his desktop with pictures of nicolas cage

My boss (non IT background) : Our contract with X company says the website must be web 2.0 compliant.

Me : What year is it!!

CSS is like #05

Fuck applications which repeatedly try to grab focus while starting up in the background. Yes, I clicked your little icon, you attention whore. But I'll fucking alt-tab to you when *I* am ready.

Game soundtracks? Perfect background music while coding.

My friend tells me #Linux has demons that work in the background! Does that mean Linux users are evil too?! #imscared

Can we get a dark colored background for the avatar, please?
The existing ones are too happy and bright.

.pixel {
background-color: quite-black;
}

Finally put tiger inside grub!
Had to-do lot of circus!
Had grub without any background twice!
What are format of pictures supported by grub?

Custom background image for profiles ✔️

A background is (sort of) ready! These black scanlines are unfilled rows and I switched to a SMD spritesheet because it had all the tiles in there and my lazy ass ain't drawing any

I cleared data from app to restore notifications on my phone... forgot how much the white background hurts.

Was not expecting that

Hi guys
I'm just starting to learn c++ (with no coding background) and being 22, i feel like it's too late.
Wish me luck.

If i'd get a penny for every time i typed backgorund instead of background i'd be so rich :)

Dont work in the place where pm doesnt have tech background

I was checking old code

css:

class name : blue_box
background : #565656

:(

Was about to follow a guy doing really interesting work on Twitter, then noticed he was using a light background terminal theme.

"And my background picture is my credit card with cvc"

The best part of our daily standups is hearing my coworker's daughter whispering "Baba~" in the background, trying to get his attention for whatever reason.

Then when we end the meeting and say bye, you hear her in the background yell "Bye Bye~"

Adds a little cuteness to what usually is a very dull meeting.

So WhatsApp does connect to Facebook in the background from time to time 🤔

MFW someone compliments my coding ability but I secretly have a w3schools tab open in the background at all times

Any editor I use, I apply a dark theme.
Most of colleagues find it irritating, but for me is more appealing to code with a dark background.

I automatically don't trust People who use pictures of clouds on the background for anything related to cloud computing.

Story of my fucking life in one fucking sentence:

"Visual Studio is not responding"

You just have to use jQuery. And the whole jQuery UI package, because we need to animate the background color of that single div.

When scrolling through free Udemy courses for fun, my gf says:
"Whaaaat? Data analysis with Panda and Python? Isn't that shit dangerous? Like they go in the jungle and stuff?"
Me:"oh..."

(Disclaimer: She has no background in CS)

Just noticed that the Firefox mobile browser plays YouTube video in the background.

I am curious... Bug or feature

Android oreo made me change so much code and broke so much shit like background services that my latest branch in git is FuckAndroidOBranch

I design logos too.

My new client wants to know whether I have sent him a logo with a transparent background or not. Because everytime he opens the png file there is a background behind it :|

#sky
{
background-color: blue !important;
}

#eminem {
background-color: black;
color: white;
word-spacing: 0;
}

Update on my previous post!

Customer: '... But we really like our boxed layout with the yellow background color!'
Me: 'I think we should start seeing other people...'

That time when this other manager used a "city buildings" background while his hair was swaying around as if he's actually on a rooftop. People started teasing him about his "nice background" while me and my colleagues joked in our group chat about seeing Godzilla in one of the buildings.

Halfway through the call, a woman appeared in the background and he signalled her to go away while they're both laughing then his webcam turned off.

Maybe he unleashed his Godzilla.

Soooo

I kind of always knew that you can make the terminal background transparent. But I can't believe I never thought of this

There's something so calming about my terminals now. I just can't explain what it is :^)

.btn {
background-color: red !important
}

When I doubt..

I really, really need an office. Today I've been in a meeting for 2 hours with my mum hoovering in the background and my sister playing the entire fucking soundtrack to Chicago. FUCKING KILL ME!!!

Every time I fucking talk all you can hear is "'n' all that jazz" in the fucking background.

I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMOREEEEE D'X

I started learning python tonight to knock out some quick assignments, coming from a Java/C#/C background.

Must resist urge to put semicolons and brackets everywhere.

Coming from a Java background Python feels like magic :D

"Please put you cameras on"
put photo of me as background, closed privacy slide
Hope no one notices I'm not blinking

Update log: performance improve, API rewritten, fixed all bugs reported, new features implemented, general cleanup of code, documentation and comments update
Feedback: love the new background colour!
😞

Totally outside... Definitely not a WinXP background projected onto a dirty wall...

Let's dual-boot!

(That's my school classroom in the background)

"Ok can you make the background color black and the font green?"
"Sure"
"Okay now a 3D WebGL game but build from scratch"

#sky {
background: linear-gradient(rgb(134, 167, 225) 71% , rgb(230, 144, 101));
}

-- commited by ADM

I set up Rainmeter with the Chromecast Google slideshow and it resulted in an informative and beautiful desktop...

Too bad I never see it.

I wanted my colleague Mathew to write a background process on running powershell scripts at random intervals, based on input files...Guess we will call it Matt Daemon

Changed my profile color. On the new website... yellow as a background is a bit too much like a light-themed IDE 😁

If body { background: red; } isn’t the first thing you do to test a CSS file is included, then I don’t know what kind of developer you are.

!rant Finally arrived.
And just in time for my birthday tomorrow. Thanks dfox and trogus for this amazing community. And for the swag! 🎉😀

The boss made us to set a shitty background (pattern) to the website we are working on right now but it looks ugly as hell. I tried to change his mind several times but no, he fucking loves that background.

Watching Limitless on Netflix and I just love the "hacker" code animation loops with multiple terminals open going on in the background xD

didn't think it'd ever happen but I had to talk a client out of having background music on their site 🙄

MFW I've been spending over an hour on a problem that is solved by background-size: contain

<audio controls>
<source src="killing in the name of.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
Nice background music while coding. Woohoo!
</audio>

Can't change my desktop background. Looks like I need to reformat.

Saw a website having an image with resulution `4828x3265`, as the background, that too in a slider with multiple images that densities that high.

PM with no technical background: "The client needs a static site in WordPress." 😐

client wants the background mirror, so when users visit the website, they can look at themselves.

fml

I have finally started to work on my personal site, just made the best photo for the background in my opinion

Any tips of what I should add or remove on the photo and any tips of what sections to add on the website

Dear DevRant,

The yellow background looks great on our avatar, but could you please not use it as background for a rant? You're burning the eyes out of my skull.

So client wants like a certain type of stone as the background of his website. Okay fine, I ask him to send me "good high resolution pictures" of the walls.

Some time later, I get the pictures. They're 500x300 px give or take , I mean come on xD

Curious about you devRanters' backgrounds.

I'm 28. Scala Pure FP. Formally Java OOP.

I intend to MAXIMIZE the background music because the SEO GIRL has the biggest mouth ever like its a market place! What in the world?

You know what devRant is missing... Flags! Something like a national flag on the background, sticker on the notebook or some item on the desk. Just a thought

One of my customers' laptop background (removed sensitive information and desktop icons).

Coworker: When you really love Chrome, but don't know what hi-res is!

Each and every time I sit on a technical test I am reminded I don't know the theoretical background of the programming languages I claim I know.

Seriously OnePlus, stop trying to optimise my battery.

My alarm was ringing for over a minute without me realising it because it apparently decided it was unimportant enough to just silently fade into the background.
Ugh

Just changed my wallpaper to be the Tensorflow logo and added 'background in data science' to my CV.

client: use THIS color for the background.

me: work work work

done.

client: ohhhh that's too colorful.

Abuse "new" google meet background feature level : 999

- while in meeting take screenshot of one of my team mates
- mirror the screenshot and put is a background
- now pretending that I'm at their place

after half an year of lockdown... It was fun

I can tell that I am getting tired when I start copying css / html from the devRant website to use in the devCredits site...

Anyways... the background is now animated and if animation is turned off, the background color can be modified through the link.

Also, @BindView cleaned up some stuff for me.

1. Social Networking Sites
2. Office Group Chat
3. Noise Background
4. Poop and Pee

🤖

So I finally got a job where I was an intern as a Data Scientist.
PS : I am a non-computer science background guy, who made it through.

Today I got called by a someone saying something about my internet but I couldn't actually hear him against the background noise...

I think he mentioned something about having downloaded my internet onto their servers...?

Why do most docs have grey text color over a white background! It's just incredibly difficult to focus on. And my brain is like a potato to begin with.

"How long will this bug that you have no background or context for take to fix" I DON'T KNOW

It really annoys me when someone opens an app in Android phones and then leave it open in the background.

What started as a changing our games background music as a joke quickly turned into 3+ hours of debugging.. For fuck sake.

Just realized I needed to finish to write my activity report in just less than a month.

Just stopped my WoW subscription.

😥😥

For those of you iOS Swift developers, how long did it take to learn and have a decent app with database functionality, coming from a different programming language background?

Just saw a "Teen Kids News" show where they were talking about building complex applications like operating systems… and the background picture is some HTML meta tags…

In case you didn't knew:

Devrant doesn't support split screen.
Therefore you can select YouTube as the first split screen app and devRant as second, which sends YouTube to continue playing in background with devRant as a full screen app.

Been listening to music/podcasts while browsing devrant for a while now.

What's your programming background music?

I listen to classical music
These days mostly Chinese traditional

(No I'm not Chinese)

As a Backend guy doing CSS. (Honestly don't know what i'm doing)

position: absolute;
z-index: -999999999999; /* better fucking work*/

margin-left: -1200;
background: red;
asdfghjkl

wait? what?

Got new work phones.
Mines sorted :).

Whats everyone's thoughts on coin miners running in the background of a website as an alternative to adverts?

Construction work does not make for good concentration background music

Did anyone reach this black background? (score > 800)
Are there any more levels? I didn't try.

If you’re tired of the great Bleeps & Bloops playlist by Spotify, I’ve created Volume 2 and 3. Same kind of “background ambience”-feeling. Perfect when coding 😄

Trying to learn machine learning with zero python background is frustrating as FUCK!

As it's online at the moment.
A live background of myself handing me a glass of wheat beer.
And then actually having it.

Why the fuck does Microsoft Office have a background process that opens a cmd window every hour?

Nothing is more relaxing then finding some really bad code and clean it up in your free time with music in background. Love this kind of Friday's.

So, Instagram put that "Be the first to comment" as a part of the background on the image itself. Whenever I scroll past comments that is visible in between the gaps. They couldn't even render a simple text view if there are no comments. And, I thought I was the only one who uses lazy hacks to make things work.

A client send me his firm logo in .png after .pdf in the first time. The background is white not transparent ... 😓

I'm so tired I just wrote
background-color: round;
and I still have homework…

still happy though, I just got my first domain!

!Rant
Should i learn kotlin or java for android?
I have some programming background

As a web developer, I find myself enjoy changing style in some websites when I visited them. Thanks to come devtool.

I always
- Hide annoying banner and ads
- Change text background to please my eyes while reading
- ...

Lecture videos should not have background music.

Please, if you are making a teaching video, do not do this. It is very distracting.

Anyone who left their workstation unlocked and unattended would come back to find their background replaced with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

What's with all these master/slave terminology rants?

Clearly the world's biggest problem is the default of white text (foreground) on black background in most terminals.

Top 3 misunderstood things:
- The Flat Earth Society
- Pineapple on pizza
- People who code on a white background

Well, I only worked with two designers so far. The first one was incredibly competent and a nice guy. The second one however...not so much.

He wanted me to change the background of his website to a specific pattern. It was a pattern that easily could have been used as repeated background.

So I asked for a single pattern in PNG format.

Guy refuses to give it to me and forces me to use a 4k image as background.

BOI WHAT

PAGESPEED LITERALLY RATES THE SITE 30/100 BECAUSE THE IMAGE TAKES SO FUCKING LONG TO LOAD
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

Guess I asked for it by joining the Windows Insider fast lane but my desktop background has disappeared :((

when your project manager is not from a technical background .. and major in business management.

"How do I make this AI work?"
[Debugs]

[Dirtyphonics and Sullivan King - Vantablack plays in background]

o shit here we go son

[ends up typing its lyrics while testing the chatbot]

Chatbot's response to the clusterfuck: "I don't understand"

I hate working in silence so I always have Netflix in the background. My boss doesn't mind. Anyone else does this?

The background loading wallpaper breaks on my 19.5:9 aspect ratio mobile (honor play)

People who dont know shit about technology and dont know how much work is required to make a product are commenting on how software should be made. (Pure management background people not even senior level).
- PS. Im fine with management people with tech background.

The list is long... Very long.

*Anxiety is seen smirking in the background*

Some chillstep/chillhop mix in the background, fullscreen IDE and phone silenced. With this setup I can code for hours.

#wallpaper {
background-repeat: repeat;
}

/rant
When you spend longer trying to work out why your background <div> refuses to cover the entire page, than you spent coding an entire user-authentication system in TypeScript for Angular 2.

When your network admin doesnt realize you are a developer and get paid to fix problems. Tries to change your background to Justin(e) Bieber with group policies and you overwrite them in the registry. Now to plot revenge...

After switching from win to linux, and observing chrome process background behaviour for a while now I can with great certainity say it resembles a malware...

I have an AngularJS background. I just learn ReactJS and I feels WoW.

Today one of my friends asked me how to change a div background color and I sad that it was in the CSS and he told me he didn't has CSS...

Windows dynamic Active X backgrounds found their into Mac OS

I just made a dark version of the Ubuntu background.

Why is DevRant consuming so much power in the background? My Android starts ranting about it every time I leave the app minimized.

Did anyone else notice that background color for devRant (dark theme) is #40415A?

If only it could just be 404 lol

How to convince someone that it's not helpful to delete apps running in background (RAM) on an android phone? it's like a habit for that person😌
says phone will explode with too much RAM being used and don't want apps run in background ... 😥
pls help for arguments

One that you can discuss those minor bugs with and really Bond with.

Old but Golden dvd in the background for size reference

I hate that discord uses electron, like sure electron is fine for building simple apps but when you have a fucking huge social media background directed at gamers with VOiP features then it shouldn't be taking up 30% cpu while idle because it's just 12 chrome windows in the background

Just found out you can change your background image in iTerm2. I don’t see whats wrong with doing this.

I fucking hate background embed containers, clicked accidentally on some video or stream in some random launcher? good luck finding that specific one that plays it!

I joined a a new company .. the Technical team leader .. is coming from a lawyer background.. and feel threaten by new technology and insist on using old technology so he feel relevant !
The project manager has a background of business management which I understand but .....

It's been 3 days and am asking my self if I made the right choice by joining such company ...

There is a lot of talk regarding IDE themes but what about your console?
>At home
Green text black background bash on Centos
>Work
Green text black background DOS prompt

I'm the guy who downvotes and flags your questions on Stack overflow, for being in poor format and incomplete background of question.

P.S. I'm not hot head.

Teammate sends me the site logo in messenger with white background to use it in production...

Today: FUCK RADARE

5 minutes later: FUCK GHIDRA

2 minutes later: God bless both of these wonderful programs, and I finally think I understand what is going on.

2 minutes later: Fuck this, I hate everything, I'm going back to studying hardware shit.

Flutter has most pathetic support for background job execution 😡, it's not worth learning, until the framework matures enough

Some people must be forbidden by law from drawing wire frames!!!

I received wire frames, with white background and everything else is #C2C2C2 -_-

This is the reason why I never prefer Google Chrome!! It freaking kick starts number of threads in the background that keeps hogging your system resources!! The one memory hungry browser!!

I once used some Windows theme hack in Windows 7 to be able to get a dark background in Explorer.

As a side-effect, Microsoft Word shows me the same dark background as well for its documents even though I didn't tell it to. I didn't mind, though...

But now the fun part: When I wanted to print out the document, it prints with that same dark background... seriously, is this shit hardcoded in?! No wonder you couldn't get a proper dark theme with Windows 7!

(I hope Windows 10 full dark theme won't have this weird issue!)

Don't know if it's just me but if a site has 2 bg images with background-position fixed it fucks with my head

When a senior engineer who was essentially a DBA on his last project is made tech lead on an iOS team. He had no iOS background before this and now he thinks hes a friggin architect.

I edited my project's github page and changed the background and buttons....
I guess it's time to add css and html mastery to my resume 😉

When you can't vertically align text because it breaks - webkit-background-clip and only way to do that, is setting line-height same as container height.

In my office I've made a habit of changing the desktop background of anyone who leaves thier workstation unlocked to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic to encourage good data security.

It's working.

The other day I was having a problem with a RecyclerView. A button was being drawn all the way on the top of the screen with a HUGE padding. Changed background of said button, fixed. I will never understand...

What do you do when a coworker leaves his/her desktop unlocked? We send an email about bacon to the whole group, and change the desktop background to a bacon-related image.

So i was commenting on a rant by some user where we had this conversation about IDEs and editors...
Point: Intellij has an option to set a background to the whole ide which gives coding a unique experience instead of the pale dull solid color background.

Go to Settings > Appearance > Background image is in the main appearance tab click and set the image, position, transparency ... And voila u have a background image on your editor.

Alternative way just go to settings and search for background image

Ok, it's difficult to open a new window from a background process, but you're exaggerating here 🤔

"White" Background is killing my eyes..
Please make "Black" as default website background color.
(Common google, atleast make dark theme for all of your apps)
(Who think is a good idea that your google launcher background default color is fucking White, Drop your default bright colorscheme bullshit. Hey you fraeking huge company, stop this trend please.)
(For every designer with dark colorscheme, Thank you for making my life easier.)

Ummm, I will assume that you were not able to navigate to the page you have just opened in background. Ok Safari, thanks for the hardwork.

learning php from javascript background. uugghh I dont get it, why people like php.

git rebase -i HEAD~48

* children are crying on the background

Does anyone actually watch the company policy and sexual harassment videos that are shown when you join a company?
I just play them on mute in background lol

Recommendations for best resource to begin learning C++ from a Java background, GO!

Why all developers care about their editor's background more than the editor itself .....? !

On indeed: "I love your background as a UI/UX designer!". I'm a Fullstack developer 😂

Stepped into a government facility and what do I hear in the background? Dial up. No wonder it's taking forever to have a single number called.

Can anyone tell me the difference between CS and software engineering?
I only know the very basic background on it ( I want details)

Format must be png so we have a transparent background and image must be animated.

Me: Do you need to pause on mouseOver?

Dumb fuck.

Transparant background on a terminal window or not. What do you guys think?

Small warning: The plugin “Web Developer“ was hacked and shows shady ads and does maybe even more in the background. Better disable it for now.

Do you know what you call someone with a bright background PC in an IT company?

Human resources.