comic shanns ms for all code editing
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Needs more line spacing.
Putting the “no” in zapfino
I... Somehow just realized that I can of course change my editor font. After three years in professional software dev.
Any recommendations for maximizing readability?
i always use the classic 6x13 or 8x16 font
Iosevka, IBM Plex, Fira Code, Space Mono, JetBrains Mono
Verdana.
The I/l and O/o/0, 0/8/ø are all distinct, so are all the different kinds of brackets. Also, this isn't a monospace font, so wide letters such as m and w are wide, instead of being squashed into an unreadable barcode.
Letters aren't meant to be monospace, and sans TUI nothing in computers still needs to be.
If you do need one, ex. for TUI, I second JetBrains Mono!
Also, Verdana is not a libre font, Noto Sans is a libre font that also has these properties, although code does look much better in Verdana to me.
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I just use IBM Plex, but that's mostly because the keycaps my keyboard came with used it :) I also think it's just fine for readability (i.e. I/l and O/0 are different enough)
I unironically love comic sans derivatives, they're just super readable to me
Comic sans is a great typeface in my opinion. Just often misused.
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Big fan of jetbrains mono.
Try JetBrains Mono.
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Cause I ~~reposted~~ stole it from some other internet page
I just usually download the image than a screenshot when posting
In this case it's because part of the joke is the quote tweet. You could also link to the tweet instead of a screenshot but then we need to connect to Musk's servers at some point (even if through a proxy like nitter)
Yes, but he could've copy pasted the title.
You could've changed the main title to something like "programming the declaration of independence" or "programming like it's 1750"
He mocks op. The gag is not the font anymore.
True but I think showing the quoted tweet is better than just in the title cause it is part of the joke in the image.
Title is normally used as a reaction or just simple text with some reference to the image
I still think this format sucks because the punchline comes first.
But this way gives credit to Josh for the joke
Another way is to use a content extractor.
So
- the user will select the rectangular region to be extracted
- Extractor will extract
- Josh's profile picture
- "Josh"
- The tick mark SVG
- "@jpshycodes"
- "Bro is coding ..." - the comment text
- Information that a frame is to be reproduced
- Ryan Els's profile picture
- "Ryan Els"
- The tick mark SVG again, but this time it will be deduplicated
- "@RyanEls4"
- "12h"
- "Rate my ..." - text for the comment inside the frame
- The jpeg picture inside the frame (yes it's a jpeg and not a PNG. IDK why. But look at it)
Then it would convert it into a reproducible package which can then also match your colour scheme for background colour etc.
Now just need to make such an extractor
And a corresponding format in Lemmy to display it
Sure it will be more work, but this way we can retain more fidelity with less space taken.
It will not be usable as proof, because the thing can be just written, but it's not like pictures work as a very good proof nowadays, anyway.
See the problem with this is that even if I write code with this font, I can't force people to read it in this font.
Of course you can. Instead of committing the code to a repository, you just take screenshots of the everything and commit that instead.
Settle down Satan.
And then you program a runtime that calls an AI to parse images and execute your code in real-time!
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You can if you paste it into a write protected pdf
The only real way to write protect it is by printing the pdf into pdf (making it a pdf of an image).
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Many editors can read config files from a file in the repository itself. And oftentimes it has the highest priority. Just gotta know the IDE of your target and they have to click "trust this project".
Just add it for VSCode and Jetbrains and you cover like 75-95% of devs
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reduce the flourishes and/or add more spacing between lines and it would be a lot more readable.