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Artem Sapegin
@sapegin.me
A coffee first frontend engineer at Stage+, creator of React Styleguidist, and award-losing photographer. Author of Washing your code: https://sapegin.me/book/. Learning to cook at https://tacohuaco.co.
Yay, thanks a lot!
December 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Same! Have you found any solutions? I've experimented with high-contrast mode + raising a bit the contrast slider. It does make buttons more visible, removes most shadows and overall significantly improves things, but overall contrast is quite insane for my eyes...
December 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I use reading more in Firefox and it does the same on some sites — when they put an overlay on top of the actual content, but here it's not in the DOM unfortunately.
December 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I did, because it's unusable for me, but found nothing ;-( Unfortunately, cannot read the article because it's behind a paywall...
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Yay!
December 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Access to note's content and images in bases, so I can show the first image and a content snippet in a card. Now I have to use a script to write these data to properties.
December 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is great, thanks! I really appreciate the way you develop Polypane and interact with the users :-)
December 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I think it has regressed in a way that's not unique to web browsers — now it's very hard to find a browser that respects your choices and boundaries and doesn't shove new buttons or some AI in your face that you don't need but can't remove.
December 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I'm wondering if it's possible to style the toolbar the way it used to be, using a theme. The new Apple toolbar style is _extremely_ distracting ;-(
December 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I feel this is the unfortunate trend in modern software, to bend users to the only correct way to use their software and punish those users who want or need some adjustments; and they refuse to accept that some user _do need_ accommodations.
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
(2) Removal of custom modes support in favor of slash-commands.

Custom AI modes (github.com/sapegin/two-...) are part of my workflow — and I don’t see slash-commands as a good alternative, especially as they used to work in Cursor and still work everywhere else.
GitHub - sapegin/two-step-ai-coding-modes: Custom modes for AI agents
Custom modes for AI agents. Contribute to sapegin/two-step-ai-coding-modes development by creating an account on GitHub.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’ve written about my setup on my blog (sapegin.me/blog/adhd-fo...) and more in my book (sapegin.me/book/), and I have my own color theme that I use everywhere I can (sapegin.me/squirrelsong/).
How I stay (more) focused with ADHD
I could never stay focused on one thing for a long time. These tips help me stay focused and productive.
sapegin.me
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
My Code setup has nothing except the source code and the file name in the window title (and I’d love to hide that annoying icon next to the file name).
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I have a need for a non-distracting environment, and unfortunately current UX trends disrespect this need: use of extremely-saturated bright colors, no or very limited theming, no ability to hide distracting UI elements, and, instead, adding new ones sometimes after every other update.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
(1) New agents/editor toggle that’s not useful for me but very distracting, and cannot be disabled.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thanks for the tip! I quite like how my Obsidian theme looks like — very non-invasive. Firefox is also quite okay (I was inspired by it, actually ;-)
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
That too!
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Such early 2000s Flash site vibe ;-)
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM