So to feel the hygge—the space needs to accommodate you. IRL, in my room, I put up posters, light up candles, hang tools on the wall, set up fairy-lights, play ambient music... I accommodate the spaces I exist in to fit my definition of the concept.
a digital spaceWe talk of digital space.
- my computer is a room
- my website is a garden
- my code editor is my garage
- the web is a series of roads that lead to these places.
However, unique to the digital space is the fact that modification, change, adaption, personalisation—it’s all arguably easier but definitely more non-destructive than it is IRL.
It’s easier to CTRL+Z the change of a wallpaper than to repaint a wall after you realize that yellow does not suit your room. But why then are we more likely to think of making physical spaces comfortable than our digital ones—when only one of these realms allows for ease of iterative customisation?
99 hacks towards a hyggelig computer
- change your wallpaper
- change your mom’s wallpaper
- set custom icons
- use emojis (‼️) in your folder names
- change your browser theme
- change your code editor theme
- change your code editors font
- find a font that has fancy → ligatures ← that make things ≠ pragmatic prettier
- make your cursor bigger
- make your cursor smaller
- make your cursor different
- make your cursor leave a trail
- make your notion page pretty
- make a navigation bar that appears on all of your notion pages
- learn keyboard shortcuts
- customise your keyboard shortcuts
- change CTRL+Z to CTRL+Y on QWERTZ keyboards
- liberate yourself from the keyboard shortcuts that only work on enUS keyboards
- use autohotkey to customise the shortcuts on programs that don’t allow you to customise your shortcuts
- install browser addons
- install an adblocker
- install userscripts
- use userscripts
- write userscripts
- inject css
- remove css
- make a startpage for your new tabs
- remove microsoft edge
- remove cortana
- download a virtual pet
- feed the virtual pet
- uninstall the virtual pet
- re-enable desktop gadgets
- put a clock on your desktop
- put a sticky note on your desktop
- put a small puzzle on your desktop
- remove your widgets
- remove all the icons
- download rainmeter
- add cooler widgets to your desktop
- browser deviant
- find cool themes for windows
- try to theme windows
- fail at theming windows
- download ux theme patcher
- theme your windows
- brick your windows
- switch to linux
- find a theme
- revert that theme
- use a tiling window manager
- find out about ricing
- spend hours making nice rice screenshots
- give up on ricing
- switch to mac
- remove siri
- disable gatekeeper
- disable “system integrity protection” (you should)
- inject code that apple doesn’t want you to inject
- make it so that all virtual desktops are already uncollapsed when you open desktop overview on your mac
- download macforge
- install plugins
- disable transparency in your windows
- disable animations
- enable animations
- change the position of your dock
- change your touchpads scrolling direction
- change the position of your taskbar
- set your date format to DD/MM/YY
- set your date format to DD-MM-YYYY
- never set your date format to MM/DD/YY
- make your calendar week start on a monday
- never make your calendar week start on a sunday
- use the terminal
- install powerline10k
- make the terminal transparent
- don’t use the terminal
- use GUI apps instead
- get a raspberry pi
- host a your own “cloud” on your raspberry pi
- put some stickers on your laptop
- put some stickers on your phone
- put a case on your phone
- download a better dialer for your phone
- download gcam for your phone
- download a custom launcher for your phone
- root your phone
- disable all ads
- switch to iphone
- use shortcuts to use custom icons on your fucking iphone
- regret switching to iphone
- jailbreak your iphone
- change your icons without shortcuts
- hold the power button
- turn off your phone
- turn off your computer
- go outside
- breathe
- be comfortable IRL