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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 1 Mar 2018
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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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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 May 2018
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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 @mwichary
      Accidentally 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/nzrajNstcD
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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Jun 2018
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted Eric Fischer

      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 …

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      Eric Fischer @enf
      Replying to @enf @mwichary @Bitterman59
      A 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 screen
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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 8 Jun 2018
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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 …

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 8 Jun 2018
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      👆🏻Examples: Anyone still remember the DVI hardware virus story? It blew my mind: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/09/24/dvi/ … Or the Commodore 64 “lick your finger and touch the joystick port to continue”:https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4424/how-did-the-rub-joystick-port-to-continue-in-the-creatures-2-infinite-lives-ch/4437 …

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 15 Jun 2018
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted Yoz Grahame

      When I proposed starting A Bug’s Life series at Backchannel, I imagined it could one day turn into a book – but I didn’t know how to find human, entertaining, teachable computer bug stories. Recently, someone did an amazing job soliciting these:https://twitter.com/yoz/status/1006636464350695424?s=21 …

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      The Second Life updater downloaded the updater.exe, ran it with no validation. One day it got a 404. On Win32 if you try to run an EXE, Windows checks if it's a valid format (PE). If it's not it assumes that it's a COM: 16 bit x86 instructions, no header, no validation. The 404 page, read as x86 bytecode, opened the LPT DOS device and wrote garbage into it. On Windows, this would freak out and break cheap printers.
      Yoz Grahame @yoz
      I'm fascinated by bizarre bug stories. This one, retold by @ferlatte, happened in the mid-2000s. The chain of decisions that made this possible could make a book-sized history of computing. But if you only take one lesson: please, validate your inputs. pic.twitter.com/EfHDaOsrmX
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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 16 Jun 2018
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted Jonathan Shariat

      Book idea: The oral history of Google Wave and its failure, also talking about the history of email, chat, collaboration – all the areas Wave was trying to improve. Interviews with people who worked on it, but also observers. Inspired by:https://twitter.com/DesignUXUI/status/1007779286088994816 …

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      Jonathan Shariat @DesignUXUI
      Can we bring back Google Wave, please? pic.twitter.com/MjchIHohSz
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    8. Lisa Hyphen Hirsch (Moot, Meritless, & Dangerous)‏ @LisaIronTongue 16 Jun 2018
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      I would read that. I'm not sure whether it's a book-length subject, but AT LEAST a NYer long read. Meanwhile, are your DMs open, Marcin?

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 16 Jun 2018
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      Yes!

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    10. Lisa Hyphen Hirsch (Moot, Meritless, & Dangerous)‏ @LisaIronTongue 16 Jun 2018
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      Not right now but at some point I will DM you because I have a rant that you will appreciate. :)

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 16 Jun 2018
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      Haha, thanks in advance! My email can also be found at http://aresluna.org , if that’s easier.

      2:33 PM - 16 Jun 2018
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