Category: Tips

Enable YouTube Dark Mode

YouTube Dark Mode has been a feature of YouTube Gaming for a while and for those of us who knew how to hack the You Tube Gaming’s awesome Dark Mode, we had to replace www.youtube.com/rest-of-URL with gaming.youtube.com/rest-of-URL to get that super slick YouTube Dark Mode that is actually quite nice on the eyeballs. Now anyone can turn on the slick YouTube Dark Mode feature by enabling the new set of YouTube’s UI features. Here’s how we do that but before we begin please note this change is BROWSER based and does not affect your YouTube Account… so you will need to do this for EVERY BROWSER on which you wish to use the new YouTube Dark Mode.

Step 1:
YouTube just released a new set of UI features that you can activate by signing into your YouTube account and then going here: youtube.com/new and selecting the button that says “Try it now”.

Step 2:
Then after you restart your browser you will notice in the Account Drop Down, there is a “Dark Mode” option.

This is the new Account Dropdown menu you will get after enabling the new features.

Step 3:
Then your YouTube will go from the usual white background UI:

This is the regular YouTube UI

to this:

This is the YouTube DarkMode

and that is how you enable the new YouTube UI features.

Hope this helps anyone figure this out – it took me some hunting and it’s awesome to not have to replace the “www.” with “gaming.” anymore.

Cheers!

CSS Prefixes are easy with Autoprefixer

Hello Hello and welcome to this tutorial about Autoprefixer, the PostCSS plug in that will make your CSS Prefix compatibility a breeze! Before diving into this quick tutorial about Autoprefixer, you should have a basic working knowledge of CSS and know what a CSS Prefix is but if you don’t, continue reading because we are going to define that quick for you.

Also, if you are new to terminal, do not type or copy the $ below… that’s just a placeholder for the terminal prompt.

so if I type run $ git init you just type “git init”

Ok, let’s do it.

Part 1 – CSS Prefixes and Autoprefixer

A lot of the posts you will see here are going to be things that attempt to spare you some coding time and hopefully open you up to different ways of attacking your project because as overwhelming as it can be, there are more often than not many ways to accomplish the end result you want.

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Install Homebrew without XCODE

I was helping someone set up FFmpeg and they have never opened terminal before so I was sure they needed Homebrew installed. I grabbed them the link available at brew.sh and they were prompted to download Xcode from the App Store and that’s just too much space to waste on an IDE we aren’t going to use (sorry, Apple). I found a great two step process over at ryanwinchester.ca

Two easy steps:

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