I'm the opposite. Anything other than pure white on pure black for dark themes gives me eye strain. If you use the dark reader web extension you can adjust the brightness and contrast to your liking.
There is int_fast32_t and int_least32_t but it is probably less confusing to just use exact sized types (and would make porting to other architectures simpler).
The post is from 2001. The spanking.com domain name was probably owned by someone else at the time and might not have been NSFW. The books are all going to be 20 years old at least.