"To find early versions of Arial, the Dinamo team had to work with computer technology archivists to get access to some of the first personal computers and operating systems. In the end they found a tool that allowed them to boot up Windows 2000 on their own laptops"

I hope this "technology archivist" charged them appropriately for this monumental task. /s

TIL that windows 2000 is one of the first PC operating systems.

I was there, 4000 years ago

Username checks out!

If you count every Linux distribution released since, and just make the before/after totals, maybe!

ah the year 2000, when al gore invented the internet

The Windows 2000 launch is closer to the release of Altair 8800 than it is to today :/

The interesting thing is that going by that and by Medea's numbers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45044803), it seems strange that copying from an operating system that was well after WGL4 came out ended up with a glyph list that is significantly short of even WGL4.

By the time that Windows 2000 came out, Arial Unicode had already been published (with Word 2000).

The idea is that you download the source, review, and then build it yourself.

If you're interested in that, check out the guys over at pixellab.ai

They have an Aesprite plugin that generates pretty nice looking sprites from your prompts.

Agreed. This is the first resource that I've come across that so succinctly encompasses the language. Well worth the read to any dev looking to evaluate the language.

Of course the (good) problem with C# is that it's moving so fast, articles like these can quickly become out of date.

I usually read up on various DevBlogs like:

* https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/

* https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/

* https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/author/toub/ (for perf improvements by .NET version)

* https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet (of course!)

But it takes a while to catch-up if you are not keeping up-to-date on what is happening or coding in C#/.NET on a day-to-day basis

I recently picked up the G915 and share the same frustrations. And it's too bad too because the keyboard itself is the best-feeling, lowest wrong-key-pressed keyboard I've ever used.

I'm desperately looking for the same keyboard without the G keys.

Every tool that I use that doesn't have AI embedded just feels clunky. Any repetitive or predictive task that I have to do should have the option of being automated.

30 years ago you would have just used a shell.

Can you explain which tools are now automated for you?

But doesn't this technology give you the same edge?

You can deliver more content, faster, cheaper.

I've used similar tools like imageUSB and Rufus in the past. But it looks like Ventoy is better in every aspect. Excellent!

I don't understand this - have you been (unsuccessfully) looking for a job since 2013?

If you've had jobs in between these applications, why are you applying for so many new jobs every year?

In the reflections link at the bottom they have the following:

> I've been unbelievably fortunate to be continuously employed since college, but I'm not sure how to tell you to repeat that.

So they've had jobs while they've applied elsewhere. Also according to their resume (link at the top) they've had 7 jobs since 2014, or about one job shift every year and some change.

I discovered this just the other day and could not believe it had been there all along!