They are! I actually watch this movie pretty often just to understand why the interfaces and the fonts integrate so well into the overall plot and visual flow.
So glad to see two of my favorite fonts in your list, namely IBM Plex Mono and Berkeley Mono. But you should have a look at their newest TX-02, you will be pleasantly surprised.
Do share your ghostty setup! Did you manage yet to render your terminal data through the Denabase interface?
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
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Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
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Just like not knowing how to read and write does to your ability to speech.
I appreciate the tongue in cheek joke, but it is quite different. In the case of music, you virtually always only hear the music, and the written down form is just a formalisation of said music. In the case of language, a vast corpus of information (the majority of it) is available only in written form, with only recent proliferation of recorded audiobooks. Additionally written text is a separate form of language wit…
Especially when you can easily do things while playing that require tons of work to notate; like sliding key changes, etc.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
These days, I see a lot of people using AI for everything except hobby projects. Recently, I joined a maintenance project where the team leader even instructed us to use AI exclusively. So I just keep one hobby project that I write by hand, but the market these days mostly uses AI coding.
Completely trusting it to the AI is negligent, I don't think any serious projects do it this way. A lot of AI usage yes, but reviews and tweaks still require someone reading and understanding code, structures and design patterns.
Well there's a difference between "Generate all code with AI" and "Trust AI exclusively"
And yes, in talking to friends in other areas of s/w, it's really eating the workflow.
It does degrade muscle memory, too. I sat down and tried to write some code yesterday and found I fumbled the basic syntax over and over.
Personal feelings aside, I do think there's a degredation of ability that will cause AI lock-in. Eventually we wont be able to whip up analysis or prototypes without AI.
It's not like mechanical engineers can do a big part of their day job without things like SolidWorks, but still, it feels like an Uber moment where they're burning hard to displace traditional methods before they price gouge.
I'd love a better IDE, where I'm _writing_ rather than _watching_ and it truly does fill in gaps / help vs handing over the reins entirely.
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#154Well, besides the language and the typeface, the other element of this sequence at the beginning of Blade Runner that makes it so special is the accompanying score by Vangelis, and the sound effects that start with twinkling computer notes and gradually build in volume to explosions and the whoosh of futuristic vehicles. It effectively immerses viewers into this incredible world and story.
I rarely read about the contribution a good music score has to a movie's popularity. A great score makes the movie. For example, The Blue Max, Ben Hur, the first Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Dr Zhivago, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and, of course, Blade Runner!
I guess the good examples where music could be an important driver to the movies popularity (or revival of popularity) might be: "Requiem for a dream" and "Das Boot". Also for me personally - "The Mission" as incredible score by Ennio Morricone has brought me tia film I'd rather ignore. Other (also personal) example is " The Spawn" with it's mind-blowing OST.
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#155Did the author forget to add pictures? They seem to be referred to in the text.
The images don't load without javascript, which sadly is customary for the modern web experience.
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#156Berkeley Mono is an excellent font. Highly recommended if you still code. https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono And by the way, this website is fantastic.
https://github.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono - Is a free, open-source alternative.
I paid for berkeley mono and don't mind. But I'm not saying anything negative about free alts
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll add Donnie Darko and The Blues Brothers (that may be cheating, though).
The Blues Brothers IS the soundtrack. Nobody remembers Twiggy was in it.
I remember her due to her accent (I'm english too). Next you'll be telling me that nobody remembers Frank Oz in it. Or Mr. T.
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Thematically appropriate for it to be difficult to tell something human-created from something generated by a computer. Almost a bit too on the nose.
A typographic Voight-Kampff test is pretty awesome.
Oh noes, all the poor people who taught themselves how to speak English from books and movies, not the street or school.
Third category, behind a crafty LLMs.
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Dave Grohl is another one that comes to mind.
Also Kurt Cobain, as noted by Rick Beato: "It doesn't matter if people know what they are doing, if they can just do it intuitively" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZnWc-sFd0
I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned Paul McCartney yet.
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Why?
Probably because non-type-nerds would not be amazed. They also wouldn’t switch between six different monospace fonts, or talk at length about how fonts generate feelings. I’m glad there are people obsessed with fonts. But writing for people exactly like yourself is often limiting.
> But writing for people exactly like yourself is often limiting.
I don't follow this one little bit. I frequently read stuff about interests that I don't share (this is a good way to find new interests, btw), and I much prefer when the people who are excited by something express that excitement. I wouldn't even click on a link titled "X is Well Executed" because it sounds like a dry document written by a disinterested engineer analyzing something they don't care about. "X is Amazing" is going to be written by someone who actually gives a shit about X, and therefore is much more likely to be interesting.
Enthusiasm is a good thing and not to be avoided. Clinical language is a turn-off, only to be used when clarity is more important than anything else.
It's not writing for people exactly like you to express enthusiasm and interest in something niche. That's good writing for people not like you.