It is hard to take color advice from someone who thinks it's a good idea for their blog to be black on intense yellow, with code samples light on black background.
I'm not being facetious. The author is trying to show comparisons to the reader of various syntax highlighting schemes, but any difference between them is overwhelmed by the massive contrast between the bright yellow background and the black background of the code samples.
I immediately stopped reading when I saw the yellow. I like colors. I like rainbow delimiters. I will not change at this point. I am okay with minimalistic highlighting. Used to use visual studio with more minimalistic highlighting, and that was fine too. It is a preference and I don't think it is worth indexing much on. If it bothers you, change it until it doesn't. I don't think about it much.
I know. This is literally the ugliest page I saw this year. Bright background, bunch of ugly signs in header, text just gaslighting you about some shit.
I'm not being facetious. The author is trying to show comparisons to the reader of various syntax highlighting schemes, but any difference between them is overwhelmed by the massive contrast between the bright yellow background and the black background of the code samples.