Book idea: When typography and engineering intersect. Don Knuth, segmented displays, bitmap fonts, monospace, HTML. Not just history – also stuff practical and useful today, e.g. how font fallback works, or weird Unicode letters. (Arguably the *obvious* book for me to write.)
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
Book idea: One of these:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/965692060534648832 …
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Marcin Wichary @mwicharyImagine the premiere Sony Walkman manual written today, explaining the differences from Spotify rather than from record players. Or an iPod user manual that’s presented as a discourse on record labels, DRM, and piracy. Or a manual to a TV written as a… fictional story.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
Book idea: A book version of the Museum of File Formats:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/724323369798131712 …
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Book idea: Beautiful exploded 2.5D diagrams of pinball machines – one machine/spread for each 3–4 years between 1930s and 2000s – explaining the vocabulary, changing technology, new conventions, politics surrounding it. A lot of text around. *Not* just for pinball aficionados.
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Book idea: chasing and explaining trends and fashion in software engineering and design over the last few decades (flat design, cards everywhere, functional programming, JavaScript on the back-end, &c.) as a way to bring these two disciplines closer together.
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Book idea: Flavours of passive-aggressive in different cultures. Not a ha-ha-funny book, but genuinely trying to understand its function and differences as you move around the globe.pic.twitter.com/yTGMyMSAfT
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
Book idea (inspired by
@todrobbins’s comment): Stories of unglamorous tech companies, for example many of those with the logos here. There must be a way to talk not of the companies in the spotlight, or the spectacular failures, but the bit players.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1001143262680305664 …Marcin Wichary added,
Marcin Wichary @mwicharyAccidentally stumbled upon this amazing treasure trove of hundreds of beautiful/awful 80s tech logos. It sort of feels like a version of that “Bobson Dugnutt” screen, but those are all real. https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_unitedTechngineersMasterVol2_242068752/1985_Electronic_Engineers_Master_Vol_2#page/n389/mode/2up … pic.twitter.com/nzrajNstcDShow this thread2 replies 5 retweets 24 likesShow this thread -
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Book idea: An anthology of experienced programmers showing their early code and commenting on all the things in it that they did wrong. Crucial to the book’s success: Diversity of experiences, backgrounds, projects, eras. Inspired by
@enf’s tweet:https://twitter.com/enf/status/1003140750287126528 …Marcin Wichary added,
Eric Fischer @enfReplying to @enf @mwichary @Bitterman59A few months ago I typed in most of the program, as the only surviving evidence of what I had learned about programming by that time. https://github.com/ericfischer/learning-to-program/blob/master/1984-science-fair-reading-speed/sciencefair.txt … It's as bad as you would expect from a fifth-grader. I spent most of the code on sound and animation for the title screen2 replies 3 retweets 29 likesShow this thread -
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Book idea: The design of ports. MagSafe, Atari’s serial, headphone jack, Centronics, SCART. Going beyond functionality and specs. The stories, the emotions, the beauty, the horror. Inspired by
@craigmod’s tweet: https://twitter.com/craigmod/status/1005318657558265856?s=21 …Marcin Wichary added,
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I would support this idea, indubitably. Related:
@kioskfonts’ Adapter Museum. http://adaptermuseum.com/1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Ooh, that is lovely.
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Replying to @mwichary @kioskfonts
I’ve chatted with Frank about opening it up to submissions … if for no other reason than to document the buckets of adapters in my basement.
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Replying to @splorp @kioskfonts
You can also make your own! This way both of your personalities can shine through? I like the idea of the world having two adapter museums that could also interface (huh huh) heavily.
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