Now that I have a job where I’m writing web components full time, I see the this keyword more than I ever have in my whole life. It’s not a problem, per se, but you can see how it’s a little repetitive. I started wondering what my options were to fix this minor annoyance and the ShopTalk Discord helped me find a simple way and an over-the-top way to fix my issue.

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The post explores ways to make the `this` keyword less visually repetitive in web development. It offers two methods: overriding VS Code theme colors to dim the keyword and replacing the keyword with a custom glyph using a customized coding font. The author shares the emotional relief from reducing visual noise and entertains the idea of custom ligatures using CSS as a hypothetical solution.

Making "this" less annoying

Simple way: Overriding VS Code theme color tokens

Over the top way: Replace this with a custom glyph