Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards(unsung.aresluna.org)
262 points by leephillips | 47 comments
A blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about modular industrial control dashboards and interfaces that predate pixel-based screens.
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“I just chose words carefully”(unsung.aresluna.org)
1133 points by zdw | 326 comments
A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog about the difficulties of typesetting text in monospace and choosing words carefully to fit it.
Pac-Man's Siren Call(unsung.aresluna.org)
29 points by tobr | 7 comments
Marcin Wichary recounts building Google's 2010 Pac-Man doodle and how its autoplaying sound, combined with a Firefox extension, made invisible Pac-Man sirens blare on users' computers.
"Traditional, but Puzzling"(unsung.aresluna.org)
42 points by colinprince | 7 comments
Blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about a puzzling Unix error message seen by users in the 1990s and its history.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts(unsung.aresluna.org)
402 points by zdw | 97 comments
A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog highlighting several modern pixel fonts, starting with Andrew Gleeson's Analog Mono, a remake of the VCR OSD Mono font.
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