One of my all time favorite movies is Alien(1979). The story, art direction, sound, everything in this movie is a masterpiece and I have came back to watch it many times throughout the years. However, there is one particular thing which I really love in the movie, is the User Interface!

Here is a compilation of the UI elements created for Alien Romulus(2024) movie, based on Jason Forrest Hogg's incredible work.

I really hope to see the "retro-sci-fi" UI design used more often. It's a timeless design that brings me so much joy!

I am a huge fan of the Elite Dangerous game that was released in 2014. This was my first space sim that I felt in love and to this day is one of my favorite games to spend evenings in.

Recently, I found a great video by Mark Moxon (which, by the way, has an amazing blog!) about the first Elite game that was released back in 1984 for the BBC Micro. The crazy part is that Ian Bell and David Braben, the authors of Elite, managed to squeeze an entire 3D graphics engine, 2000 star systems, 8 galaxies and a full galactic economy into just 23K of beautifully crafted machine code!

If you can, spare some time and watch this amazing deep dive into the world of Elite!

Today I have released a major update to andreizgirvaci.com. Adding Logs along the regular Articles. Logs, are basically short Tweets that live on my website.

They also should help bring more context to my articles as I will try to share my thoughts more often without having to finish writing an entire article.

I have also made some small design changes in hopes of making the website more accessible. Hope you enjoy!