(This is… not a familiar feeling, or something I really know how to even wrap my head around.)
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BTW hilariously that numero above is not from the font I chose for text… but from Times. Times! It’s awesome to know even an old, worn down typeface still can hold a few surprises.
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Preparing example spreads for a potential publisher, imagining this book as a full-colour 8"×10" volume. This is starting to feel rather real!pic.twitter.com/fjctlNSvPT
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Update on the book piles! One is really trying to make a run for it.pic.twitter.com/L2qbgAfEUM
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Not going to lie: making mock-ups like these where I know the text is real, and photos will be, is SUPER fun.pic.twitter.com/Ra4nrwyWBS
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First (printed) prototype of my book, with a temporary cover, and no photos – but every single word of the text all there. Already with tons of sticky notes for all the things I noticed that need fixing.pic.twitter.com/UJ0ZF8bBgh
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You know what was surprisingly emotional? Seeing a table of contents with page numbers, and then being able to go to that page and just… start reading.
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A friend of mine was leafing through it on Friday and said “every time I go to another random page I see something interesting.” ^_^pic.twitter.com/L29jqtPov4 – at Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment
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In the meantime, adding a new keyboard recorder to my 20-plus-year-old awful Pascal code just in time for tomorrow’s newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/ … (I’ve never before written Pascal while having internet a keystroke away to answer any questions I could had.)pic.twitter.com/HBn1Pf25l9
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In an old catalogue, yet another illustration that seems to perfectly summarize my life. (Previous one: https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/939584916756369408 …)pic.twitter.com/KyzMwDFGIi
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An amazing benefit of being loud about the book writing process is that people volunteer little anecdotes and stories like this delightful one:https://medium.com/@capek/a-propos-of-nothing-i-offer-the-following-which-seems-somehow-relevant-34724ae51b58 …
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I am often amazed and often overwhelmed by the range and scope of tasks necessary to write this book, particularly since I’m also aiming to typeset and design it.
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This is an example of just one to-do branch I had to traverse today. There are so many more – and I’d lie if I said I fully understand the shape of the entire giant tree.pic.twitter.com/hVOcgSheKv
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Going back and forth between “the writing part” (strategy) and some, incredibly tactical nuance can be a real challenge.
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Small tasks provide respite and a sense of accomplishment, but there come in infinite amounts and for a detail-oriented person can easily completely take over. Dealing with larger questions is necessary, but it often feels vague and comes without a progress bar.
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Today, in the process of getting someone to help me figure out big strategic editing questions, I had to build a Python typesetter *inside a font creating program* to help me create a key font. Otherwise, making 517 necessary glyphs would take an infinite amount of time.pic.twitter.com/IfQaUgAQDd
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It’s a very complicated and large to-do tree, and I keep jumping from one faraway branch to another. I’m not saying it’s bad or even that I know how to do it any other way – but sometimes it’s hard to even wrap my head around what’s going on.
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My newsletter has become an unexpected forcing function he: every ~50 days I need to step back and give a succinct update. (Also! many thanks and kudos to
@djrrb for allowing me to play with the pre-release variable font version of his excellent typeface Output!)pic.twitter.com/dZY9TNQJO3
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I was at the Computer History Museum today and my keyboard research allowed me to give some advice and background to the IBM 1620 restoration team (which seems awesome), and now I really feel like a historian!
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If I never had much nostalgia for analogue photography, this might be why: with digital, I can get from farm to table within 10 minutes. It’s almost too much fun. (This is just a test spread. I don’t imagine this particular keyboard making it into the book.)pic.twitter.com/8Nz2laCGqY
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My lord, I have enough photos of keyboard diagrams that my iPhone thinks a keyboard is a *person in my life*. And when I tap Show Faces, it just creepily zooms in on one random key.pic.twitter.com/qCVMvsatqK
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Even grocery store Q-tips are trolling me. Goddamn Q-TIPS.pic.twitter.com/xGCJ9Sh0zd
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Unexpectedly giddy about completely randomly stumbling online upon three pages typewritten in 1880s on the first (popular) typewriter, the famed Sholes & Glidden. It has been incredibly rare to see anything coming from that typewriter, particularly in actual casual use.pic.twitter.com/RdkooYhKU6
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It’s a good night for research. Jumped through many journals (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal » The Lancet » The Birmingham Medical Review) to finally find the detailed description of the first recorded case of RSI, then named “type-writer’s cramp,” from 1898. Thrilling.pic.twitter.com/iC7Cs68C44
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At the public library: “So you’re the guy who orders all those typewriter books.”
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Amazed (and a bit frightened) that I’m still learning of new keyboards and so on pretty much every week.pic.twitter.com/7C3V49HmeL
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Genuinely so thrilling to find some really amazing books on the subject, long after I thought I’ve seen them all.pic.twitter.com/1b5HEdRlcP
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(I mean, two hundred plus pages on Japanese keyboards, some of the most fascinating keyboards ever!
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