Once you try the dark mode, you'll realize the irony is done on purpose.

Edit: I'm not implying it's a good thing.

It's a joke that did not drop. Given the audience is trying to read text. And he's making it annoying to read text.

It's like a stand-up comedian telling a joke, in a wild accent; where the audience cannot discern what he's saying.

It's a joke for this specific topic, that is on the entire website, and has been for almost a month prior[1] to this post being published?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20251207071946/https://tonsky.me...

"I’m Niki. Here I write about programming and UI design"

I'd imagine he thought the blog was mostly going to be about UI. "Haha, a blog talking about UI, with bad UI. Isn't that funny!"

Like there's no way the flashlight UI was done for usability purposes. It has to be a joke.