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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 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 7 Jul 2018
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary

      Book idea: What he said.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1015665349545508864?s=21 …

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      Marcin Wichary @mwichary
      I want a pop-up book explaining web now. /cc @craigmod
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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 15 Jul 2018
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      Book idea: The history of tech from the perspective of a shirt pocket. (Inspired by https://twitter.com/Sierra_OffLine/status/1018595347369791489 …)pic.twitter.com/7ogA82Sa5u

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 15 Jul 2018
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      (A few more interesting ones I found.)pic.twitter.com/psEmo2NEW8

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Jul 2018
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted Chris Labarthe

      Book idea: User interfaces for various modes of transportation: cars, trains, planes, buses. Not just pretty pictures, but also principles of operation, good stories, and – most importantly? – hacks and conventions. (Inspired by: https://twitter.com/chris_labarthe/status/1020534582406393856 …)

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      Chris Labarthe @chris_labarthe
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      Ok, now I want a series: “Marcin Drives UIs” ... do the cable car next!
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    8. Moritz Krähe‏ @moritzkraehe 21 Jul 2018
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      I'd love to read that, actually! If you're interested in that sort of thing, I could show you a German tram from the early 1950s tomorrow. Just gotta take a few photos before.

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Jul 2018
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      WHAT WHAT WHAT I love trams!!!!! Also, I grew up in Stettin, so not that far.

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Jul 2018
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary

      I did this earlier this year in Japan, it was very cool:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/964743567095705605 …

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      Marcin Wichary @mwichary
      276. Second: They had a powered train where you could press the actual buttons to get the pantograph up and down! pic.twitter.com/KBbPl1XLrJ
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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Jul 2018
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      Thanks in advance!!!

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