This morning I was bored and checked out Slashdot while in the train. In an article about eye-friendly font colors there was a comment thread with a mention about my Vim colorscheme Zenburn. And people seemed to have very positive comments about it, so cool! It really made me smile.

It’s absolutely wonderful that people like Zenburn and such eye-friendly variants. Looking back, I sometimes think how did the colorscheme became what it is now. Well, I made it good for me, and just tweaked it until it felt like “now it’s done”. I also use it at work and at home everyday (thus eating my own dogfood), although it seems to have stabilized enough that I have not needed to tune it in a long while.

It’s just simply so neat to see something one has created being used and enjoyed by people.

PS. In case you’re coming from Slashdot, you might want to read about a bit of history of Zenburn.