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Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by ssivark »

miketromba wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I built the VS Code Theme Studio after realizing how hard and annoying it is to create a theme the standard way. You have to tweak tons of hex color codes in a huge JSON file... yuck. Most of the time you don't even know which settings to edit, or how they actually affect the UI. I wanted to build a much more intuitive and user-friendly way of designing VS Code themes, so that anyone could design a beautiful,…

Slick tool! Follow-up question: What limits a tool like this to VSCode? Is theming (across editors) standardized/similar enough that the same color variables could be exported to get the same theme in different editors?

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by soneil »

Having great fun with this. Two things I thought worth mentioning ..

"How to actually use the resulting json file without publishing it" would make a really nice faq item. I still haven't figured this step out yet.

The downloaded files are named .json.json - a papercut to be sure, but I assume low-hanging fruit too.

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by _fullpint »

miketromba wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I built the VS Code Theme Studio after realizing how hard and annoying it is to create a theme the standard way. You have to tweak tons of hex color codes in a huge JSON file... yuck. Most of the time you don't even know which settings to edit, or how they actually affect the UI. I wanted to build a much more intuitive and user-friendly way of designing VS Code themes, so that anyone could design a beautiful,…

It’d be neat if you could extend this to Windows Terminal as well. They both use very similar structures for themes.

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by gravelc »

miketromba wrote: post #19
dblooman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you remove sign up?

This is a popular request, so I might implement this moving forward.

As many others have said, as soon as the login came up, I closed. Nice idea though.

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by bartread »

abledon wrote: post #12
msoad wrote: post #11

This is cool! I really enjoyed playing around. Some feedback: 1. Do not ask for signup before making a theme. There is so much power in allowing users play around without friction. You will get signups from users that are interested. 2. Make the editor preview itself a selection tool for various colors and other items. That would make it a whole lot easier to use 3. Allow grouping of colors. Some colors are always se…

yeah, after looking around some demo themes, was about to make a theme, got blocked by signup and closed tab

Me too: I am unpleased by forced sign-up before I've had chance to try the thing I'm signing up for, so I didn't get beyond browsing demos. Some of them did look nice, but nah.

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by miketromba »

israrkhan wrote: post #77

For some reason, this site is being blocked by our corporate security software "This site is blocked due to a security threat."

Third time I'm hearing this... I think it might have something to do with: a) newish domain, b) uncommon TLD ".one" or c) cloudflare DNS setup pointed to netlify with cname flattening. I'm a noob when it comes to DNS stuff, so I'm not sure if/why that would cause problems, but who knows. If anyone else has an idea, let me know!

--- I think I figured it out. Someone mentioned "Cisco Umbrella" blocking it. This article explains the categories of 'threats' it blocks: https://support.umbrella.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004563666-...

One of the categories is "newly seen domains" and another is "dynamic DNS". I suspect one (or both) of those is the culprit because everything else appears clean on total scans like this: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/themes.vscode.one/dete...

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by chii »

abledon wrote: post #12
msoad wrote: post #11

This is cool! I really enjoyed playing around. Some feedback: 1. Do not ask for signup before making a theme. There is so much power in allowing users play around without friction. You will get signups from users that are interested. 2. Make the editor preview itself a selection tool for various colors and other items. That would make it a whole lot easier to use 3. Allow grouping of colors. Some colors are always se…

yeah, after looking around some demo themes, was about to make a theme, got blocked by signup and closed tab

the smart way to do it is to allow you to make a theme, but to save it/share it, you need to sign up.

If the theme is just a throwaway, people won't sign up, but if the theme is really good and the person wants to save it, it makes the signing up easier to swallow (since you get value from saving it).

Otherwise, you end up with crappy noise in the sign up because people would just make a fake account to try it out.

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