It’s time for some answers!
What is that editor?
Which IDE do you use?
It’s your lucky day!
I have made an entire video
answering that question.
In short,
sometimes it’s That Editor.
Sometimes it’s Joe running
in That Terminal,
but almost never
it is something else.
What is that font?
In my programming videos
I resize the window and the font constantly.
Multiple different fonts are used.
Should I list all of them?
In the videos that I recorded in DOSBox,
most of the time the font is
one of the built-in VGA fonts –
that are present in the ROM of
nearly every PC graphics card –
built in the last 40 years.
In some videos I use XTerm.
There the font is one
of the misc-fixed fonts,
usually either the 6x10 font,
or the 9x15 font.
If I use That Terminal, fonts from
both of these sets are used.
In my LibreOffice presentations
I have usually used either Inconsolata,
Anka Coder, or Dejavu Sans Mono
for code snippets,
and either Liberation Sans
or Dejavu Sans –
for the majority of other text.
What is that color scheme?
Alabaster.
No, seriously,
how do you expect me to answer that?
What kind of picture do you have
in your mind about the answer?
I wrote my own state machine
for the syntax highlighter.
It colors different things
in different colors.
Should I list every rule and every pattern
and every color separately?
How would that even benefit you?
Which speech synthesizer do you use?
Obviously that is not
an honest question,
but I answered it anyway,
in this video.
Are you married?
No, at the moment
when I am making this video,
I am 42 and single.
For most of my life I have been
too insecure about myself –
and completely oblivious in general,
to form any sort of relationship.
Add to that the highly
individualistic Finnish culture,
in which respecting personal
boundaries is a virtue,
and talking to strangers is
a thing you just don’t do.
Essentially, at this age,
the chances of any sort of
a relationship ever happening,
that wouldn’t be totally lopsided
in terms of experience –
or dissonant in terms of
world view and values,
are looking pretty much zero.
What is the origin of
your nickname, Bisqwit?
Back in 1990s,
when I was a total newbie
to everything computers,
there were not many online systems –
that required you to login
with an username and a password,
so most people simply
would not have an online alias.
However, every programmer,
especially people aspiring
to be associated with the demoscene,
had to have a nickname.
That’s just how the
scene was back then.
I had one nickname,
which I chose in 1992 or 1993,
when I began programming,
but a friend of mine
pointed out to me –
that it might be a bit too pretentious.
So, in 1994 or so,
I chose a new nickname for myself.
I had absolutely no ideas,
but since I was quite an
inventive person back then,
my friend suggested something along
the lines of the Finnish word “keksiä”,
which means to invent.
The Finnish word “keksi”, then,
means biscuit or a cookie.
So I chose myself that name.
However, because I still wanted
the name to be cool somehow,
I stylished it a Bisqwít.
Later I dropped the acute accent,
because of various problems –
that non-ASCII characters
introduce in computer systems.
And that name,
invented by a sixteen-year-old,
is what I still
use online today.
