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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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
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.
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
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!
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
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
Even grocery store Q-tips are trolling me. Goddamn Q-TIPS.pic.twitter.com/xGCJ9Sh0zd
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
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
At the public library: “So you’re the guy who orders all those typewriter books.”
Amazed (and a bit frightened) that I’m still learning of new keyboards and so on pretty much every week.pic.twitter.com/7C3V49HmeL
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
(I mean, two hundred plus pages on Japanese keyboards, some of the most fascinating keyboards ever!
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This book is SO GOOD. It’s like traveling to Japan again, except now with a time machine.
(cc @craigmod)pic.twitter.com/XNqRMjok74
PS in my latest newsletter, another amazing keyboard-related trip that I was lucky to have accidentally instigated:https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/a-time-machine-behind-the-cypress-trees-133223 …
(In the middle of reading a book about Japanese word processors and their keyboards, a Japanese word processor and its keyboard materialized themselves on my desk.)pic.twitter.com/XYS3AvwOby
I suspect when you dig deep enough, you will always find something at even the most unusual intersection of a bunch of your interests. Here it is for me: a 1990 ad I just discovered that’s ⅓ keyboards, ⅓ typography, and ⅓ education.pic.twitter.com/NYpo9PgcPT
1483.00 ELECTRONIC DESIGN V. 30, 1-12 Jan. 7-June 10, 1982 (May Career Extra, Index) Reel 1 of 3 University Microfilms International Duplicate Negativepic.twitter.com/rZHMSU4pp1
(If you’re curious what I’m researching, it’s the early days of mechanical keyboards. If this looks interesting, DM me and I’ll send you ~200 of these.)pic.twitter.com/NYNKQG7xWf
I learned today there’s a difference between microfiche and microfilm.pic.twitter.com/povzY0BUeE
Took a 90-year-old thesis that spent last 60 years on a shelf somewhere in Cincinnati for a ferry ride in California – and it rewarded me with gorgeous vulgar fractions that used to be on every keyboard, but disappeared long ago.pic.twitter.com/RohTa4ZM2l
We are now on a vintage Italian trolley for a final ride back to the library. PLOT TWIST: Even the trolley has a keyboard.pic.twitter.com/EopXDLICZ6
Returned the thesis to be sent back to its home and likely never ever again leave its shelf, except PLOT TWIST I also scanned it so you can all read it now: https://archive.org/details/TheRemingtonRandConsolidation …pic.twitter.com/19YwlC3Z1m
Walking past library stacks, on a lark I randomly picked up a volume of Time and then let it open wherever it wanted. Of course it was something related to keyboards.pic.twitter.com/jMStoIeYYi
Uploading scanned papers to @internetarchive while waiting to board my plane like a goddamn *pro.*pic.twitter.com/erdEhnCWo7
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