I have no idea at all why this is becoming so trendy. Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303707
“I don’t see the reason” is rarely a good rationale for blaming those who do for being wastrels.
1) The difference between the best (according to your own taste) font your IDE offers off the shelf, and the best font you can find anywhere in existence seems marginal to me.
2) Optimising for readability and then introducing cursive to your IDE seems like two diometrically opposed ideas to me.
I’m not trying to be a Luddite or a hipster. Do what makes you happy. I just don’t get this trend and can’t help but think it’s a waste of time, especially if productivity is one of the supposed goals of this.
“Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?”
“completely beyond reason”
I don’t care a great deal about the topic, but it offends me when people with a passion for technical materials are disparaged for their interest.
It’s possible to explore a topic without the disparagement but you keep reverting to the “waste of time” theme, which doesn’t indicate an interest in learning or persuasion.
You’re free to do as you wish, but HN discourages your hobby, and thus the downvotes. I just regret the time I’ve spent feeding it.
That might be, but that's not at all what I said. I noted that for all your talk of all the time spent picking fonts, you're spending more time on this than most coders actually spend looking at and picking between coding fonts. (Thst is, see a font mentioned, look at a sample of it, and make a quick decision whether it looks any better than what they're using - and that decision usually being that it isn't.)
To call your efforts a "waste of time" is pointedly your choice of phrase, not mine.
Try working while sitting on a random piece of furniture, while using a keyboard from Sinclair Spectrum put on a random coffee table. Chances are your productivity will slightly decrease.
Same applies to every tool you use daily. Even a small difference in quality may play a major role.
Take some time to appreciate the aesthetic value in the little things, you will get more out of life.
> Take some time to appreciate the aesthetic value in the little things, you will get more out of life.
That’s a perfectly valid world view. A different and equally valid world view could be to not worry about small problems, and focus on things that give you the most satisfaction in life. I personally don’t care much about how my IDE looks, because writing (what I consider to be) good code is the bit I find most satisfying.