Tag: Theme

Change Editor Theme for Code::Blocks (Windows/Linux/Mac)

I am a big fan of dark themes for my code editor. I think that makes my eyes feel more conformable. There are a lot of pre-defined color themes in this wiki page: Syntax highlighting custom color themes. In this blog, I will show how to use these themes in Code::Block under different platfor...

January Theme: Be Fair to Yourself

Personal development requires inflection, and making attempts to understand our patterns. I personally love the last quarter. I love reviewing my yearly performance and thinking of exciting ways to tackle the year ahead. What is more exciting than knowing the time has arrived to begin again? Knowing...

Ad Gefrin OR Theme Parks for Adult Children

Northumberland’s latest Disney World is a theme park for adult children who can’t go abroad for their holidays as they used to. New/old sites of ‘historical interest’ spring up like mushrooms up and down the UK. The latest one I’ve visited is called Ad Gefrin, and it co...

Simulating a Theme Park: Understanding queue times with R

Long lines are always off-putting, especially when you are waiting to soar through space or sail along the Great Barrier Reef. As the summer holidays continue, I’m sure nearly everyone will be queueing for something, and hopefully, you’re lucky enough to be heading straight for the Magic...

How I resolved the “You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity” Issue

So I just created a new android project to play around with firebase tools (like firestore, functions, app distribution and whatnot), and I decided to reduce the pain of having to build the app and upload the app to Firebase App Distribution manually by automating release pipelines through Gith...

Learning Spanish from the Narcos theme song

There are many different ways to go about learning a foreign language. Of the one’s I’ve had or seen others have success with, they have one thing in common: they keep learning fun. One of my favourite methods with Spanish (though it would work equally well in any language), is A...