Daobeam

A love letter to my favorite editor theme

The sweet taste of a unit test moving from angry ❌ to glorious ✅ in a smooth field of green asserts like a row of fruit trees blooming neatly in your terminal.

The temporary vanquishing of imposter syndrome when you read the bug report, then the source code, and commit a fix with the confidence of the most seasoned sage.

The warmth of logs flickering while traffic spikes on some service you authored, and nothing is burning down or falling over. So you just watch the patterns in the wall of text, as they rise like exhaust from purring engine.

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These moments bind us to our craft. They transform us from laborers to artisans. They spur us towards the endless programmer tasks… mastering tools, memorizing shortcuts, and meticulously tweaking setups.

It’s in pursuit of these that I boldly claim that:

Daobeam is the GOAT editor theme.

Here’s a little taste of Daobeam in action.

It’s easy on the eyes, unwavering in its philosophy, and ruthless in its pragmatism.

If you care more about quality software than you do about looking cool, you should give it a shot.

And if you want to really spice things up, try Daobeam’ing your editor even further with this extended vscode config:

{
	"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
		"[Daobeam]": {
			"statusBar.background": "#E0DBC7",
			"statusBar.border": "#171717",
			"statusBar.foreground": "#171717",
			"button.background": "#666666"
		}
	}
}

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Daobeam Everything

Once your eyes have feasted on the sepia goodness of a Daobeam themed editor, you’ll want to inject Daobeam into many more of your applications. Here are some configs you can use to do just that:

Warp Terminal

accent:
  left: "#2aa198"
  right: "#268bd2"
background: "#E0DBC7"
details: lighter
foreground: "#171717"
terminal_colors:
  bright:
    black: "#002b36"
    blue: "#839496"
    cyan: "#93a1a1"
    green: "#009100"
    magenta: "#6c71c4"
    red: "#cb4b16"
    white: "#fdf6e3"
    yellow: "#B95C00"
  normal:
    black: "#171717"
    blue: "#268bd2"
    cyan: "#2aa198"
    green: "#005800"
    magenta: "#d33682"
    red: "#dc322f"
    white: "#eee8d5"
    yellow: "#b58900"

Slack

Firefox

Daobeam in the browser? Heck yes! Get the color theme here: link