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Cake day: February 21st, 2024

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  • I am picky and get bored all the time. These fonts below have had my attention for significant period of time.

    1. Used Hack for sometime and got bored of the weird diamond on the zero. Hence, downloaded HackSlash, A patched variant with slashed zero.
    2. Fira Code
    3. Source Code Pro
    4. Customized version of Iosevka mixed with monaco.
    5. Input mono but I changed the variants to get curved i, l, J
    6. Ubuntu mono
    7. Maple Mono (Latest I am trying)
    8. Menlo
    9. Consolas
    10. PT Mono
    11. Red Hat Mono
    12. CodeNewRoman Nerd Font

    Someone mentioned codingfont.com… but I spoil it for myself by immediately recognizing the fonts I already got weary of and get varying results just like if I let my picky self choose.

    Edit: Probably forgot to mention that I have tried the Nerd font variants and exclusively the NF variants of above fonts like CodeNewRoman NF, BlexMono, CommitMono NF



  • Lol I saw this when it came out and we had another thread (or not, I might be getting DejaVu).

    My pet theory for why they did it like this is:

    they fired any experienced dev and told a bunch of juniors; whose experience was only in react, to write a TUI. The juniors obviously thought they would code up the backend first because they were like “TUI? What’s that? Some kind of web frontend that looks like the cmd.exe?” and then it was just a terminal-like frontend rendered using a canvas.















  • You’re ignoring 20+ years of how it was the only player when web wasn’t so big as it is today. It was a major reason windows became the default OS in many offices, and as an extension of that, in the majority of homes in the 2000s to 2015. Thus majority of software industry and video gaming companies made their home in windows. Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, and many other industry software was made to work in Windows first.

    There was also the case of Microsoft tilting the playing field by significantly discounting laptop and Desktop OEMs for Windows license keys just to be the sole OS installed on many computers. The concept of a PC was one which was running some version of Windows.

    This also lead to another compounding aspect: Piracy of windows software made the windows AD/Server experts of today. Since Linux was free, there wasn’t as much of an intrigue on running it vs. A pirated copy of windows running pirated copy of many software.