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How To Change VSCode Theme By Time of Day

Val Paliy

Eye comfort is very important, especially to programmers, who spend most of their day looking at code in their favorite editor.

I’ve already mentioned a few themes I like, and today I am going to teach you how to set your editor up in such away that the theme changes automatically depending on what time of day it is.

Take a look at the three screenshots above:

Cobalt2

Cobalt2

Night Owl Light

Night Owl Light

Night Owl

Night Owl

Let's Talk About Fonts (Part 1)

Val Paliy

Let’s face it - as developers we look at code 90% of our time we spend in front of the monitor. While there tons of fonts available for our favorite text editors, both free and paid, I have found one font in particular to be extremely enjoyable (and believe me - I’ve tried a few).

That is - JetBrains Mono, a free and open source font from the very same company that brought us tools like WebStorm and PyCharm.