neilpanchal

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   by neilpanchal 5y ago

   Greek is on the way (last pic on the blog post) and more to come soon: https://neil.computer/notes/berkeley-mono-february-update/ Current support: ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 Western European ISO 8859-2 Latin-2 Centr
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   Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface(berkeleygraphics.com)

   355 points by neilpanchal 5y ago|171 comments
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   Bob Allison's ASCII Art (1996)(incredibleart.org)

   2 points by neilpanchal 5y ago|0 comments
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   by neilpanchal 5y ago

   I am working on a typeface — Berkeley Mono. It started taking shape conceptually 5 years ago, but really started putting effort into it after the pandemic. It is such an intense pleasure to work on typefaces, and if I could, I would do this
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   by neilpanchal 5y ago

   I did it both ways. I was working in semiconductor industry as a Mech Eng for 8 years, slowly drifted towards software in my own time and at work. Switched to Software engineering officially at a quantum computing startup, built Fab softwar
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   by neilpanchal 5y ago

   Cabinet Magazine: https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/
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   by neilpanchal 5y ago

   This is great feedback for typographers. Font Spring's[1] license is pretty nice. I just finished the first draft of license[2] for the upcoming Berkeley Mono typeface. Basically, we want people to enjoy using the typeface with zero wo
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   by neilpanchal 5y ago

   I enjoyed the book very much, later found this review [1] that highlights some issues with it. I've updated the article with a link to the review. https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R10ZINB4B9O5I3
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   Bell Labs Org Chart (1980)(neil.computer)

   172 points by neilpanchal 5y ago|71 comments
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    Well, it would be a typical enterprise installation. Presumably on-prem or some hybrid.
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    I was involved in writing software for a small Fab and there is a big gap in the MES software space. If you want to start a new Fab, you need a manufacturing execution system (MES) to process wafers. This whole MES industry is ripe for inn
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    I am thinking for sale, after one year make it open source? Another option is to make it free for personal use, and paid for commercial use. Font licensing is too complicated and I want to simplify it just as if I were to purchase the font
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    Unlikely. Explicitness and the binding between the code you see with the eyes and the keys on the keyboard shouldn’t be violated IMHO. Ligatures add ambiguity (“what’s this symbol? Which keys were pressed to create it?”), great for manuscri
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Double-storey ‘a’ does make things busy. I’ll see what I can do with optional single storey ‘a’ as a stylistic set. The problem with stylistic sets is no one uses them and they’re not well supported in programming t
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    I've been working on a new typeface[1][2] for code - Berkeley Mono. I've taken some inspiration from Jet Brains Mono, SF Mono, Bit Stream Vera, Andale Mono, OCR-B, Univers, Eurostile and Monogramma from the 50's, and weird th
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    Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by neilpanchal 5y ago|0 comments
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    Teaching how to code is broken(neil.computer)

    244 points by neilpanchal 5y ago|250 comments
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    I still have some time to test - let me try this out! One thing I already proved is with 2GB ram, the system performs as predicted ~20 GB/s. But, I resonate with your definition of benchmarking - to test utlimate performance but also r
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    Interesting. I turned off lz4 compression and it didn't make any difference - still getting around 80 GB/s on a 30 second test. I also checked the content of the dummy file, it is random and takes about the same time as using `dd`
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    I am not sure, I think some of it is cached in the RAM. I did a longer sustained test and I am getting about 70 GB/s with a 200GB file - this is definitely larger than 64GB RAM. Is it to do with lz4 compression? Fetching smaller blocks
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    Duly noted.
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    Facepalm . I noticed that too and ranted about it: https://neil.computer/notes/apple-ux-ui-is-regressing/
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    Thank you!
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    A typeface: https://neil.computer/notes/introducing-berkeley-mono/
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    Made in Australia - RM Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ef5pqWLrE
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    They spoke with great clarity and enunciation for sure. No filler words. I suspect, it also has to do with how audio was recorded, processed and mastered. It’s got that warm fidelity as if it went through a low pass filter.
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    AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982)(youtube.com)

    143 points by neilpanchal 5y ago|28 comments
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    Design of Diskprices.com(neil.computer)

    2 points by neilpanchal 5y ago|0 comments
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    But wait! there's more (Google Meet and Microsoft Teams): https://neil.computer/notes/oh-sorry-i-was-on-mute/
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    by neilpanchal 5y ago

    Kit cars such as https://www.factoryfive.com/ . I am sure electric chassis will pop up in the future.