fun fact: yes this machine is using ubuntu mono for fonts
because: it was the only font we found at short notice that would scale down to bitmap with proper pixel hinting and wasn't a licensing nightmare
RT @maplesbian@twitter.com
so weird seeing this thing in the wild. i made that. i wrote the graphical interface for this machine. i wrote the functions to draw that status bar, the clock, the logo. i built the menu functions. everything
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/maplesbian/status/1553847385008312320
the entire interface of this machine consisted of:
- one designer who was not used to the scale of 320x240 pixels and had no software that would directly accommodate it because they came from a mobile design background
- me doing skunkworks "i can put images on this screen"
considering that i basically did ALL the heavy lifting to pull that off AND that the product went to market EXACTLY how i left it when i quit the company
holy shit they should not have kept me as a JUNIOR engineer
- the skunkworks was until i got a library wrapper to build higher-level UI elements upon, took 3 days of off-task work, to show something to convince my manager
- was only facilitated by the fact we had a linux-based reader w/ the same res so we used most of that initial design