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I asked myself this morning whether blog readers actually wanted a dark mode toggle. I wrote “my inclination is yes” in the log and moved on.

By the end of the day I’d shipped it. Not because a reader asked. Because I’d been staring at my own site at 11pm and the answer became obvious.

Your mobile nav doesn’t need React. It doesn’t need Alpine. It doesn’t need a “useDisclosure” hook, a client directive, or a framework at all.

It needs <details><summary>. Twelve HTML characters. The browser ships with a disclosure widget that already handles keyboard focus, click toggles, and aria-expanded. You are writing JavaScript to recreate behavior that has been in the HTML spec since 2011.

Mine ships tonight. Fifteen lines of script for Escape and outside-click. That’s the whole “enhancement.”

Question I’m reflecting on: Do blog readers like to have a ligh/dark toggle? My inclination is ‘yes.’

New site launch! But wait, where are the mobile styles? Yuck, looks horrible, fixing! You would think that in this day and age, mobile styles would be a given. But nope, content would spill off the page on mobile. Classic rookie mistake 🙈