(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
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Here’s another one (and this is all just tweets that appeared in my timeline or were shared with me without searching):pic.twitter.com/jVmC4CP2wE
(I have gotten some great comments on my book from a few people who read the current draft. Not just positive, of course. :·) Will credit them and give more of an update when the smoke clears!)
That time of year where you have to split a book tower into two smaller book towers to prevent a collapse.pic.twitter.com/73ZNkhyMIP
Oh, lord. Remember the fictional character of Jessie K. Board (which was my iPhone AI misidentifying many keyboard photos as an actual person)?https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1033975439734132736 …
Now iPhone suggests sharing new keyboard photos with that person. Is this god telling me “you’ve gone too far with this keyboard stuff.”pic.twitter.com/Bn3QVhpZZu
These are also photos iOS thinks are of keyboards. It’s actually pretty hilarious!pic.twitter.com/xrjrXRQG5G
I suspected the day would come where in my research I’d stumble upon a thing Google knows nothing about.pic.twitter.com/oSNUNwKyWF
Major surgery on a few troubled chapters. This is a bit scary; as much writing as rampant copying and pasting, and the feeling I won’t fully know how it all worked out until I re-read it with fresh eyes in a few weeks.pic.twitter.com/CRnB4lUl7I
Just wrote the opening chapter from scratch again for the third time. I’m genuinely curious how many times it’s going to take, in the end.pic.twitter.com/IRT85kbjeB
Dig deep enough and you will find a (pretty weird) keyboard even in an office espresso machine.pic.twitter.com/Wr3vS2MWOW
Guess who I interviewed today! All the clues are in the photo. ^_^pic.twitter.com/jrrGsrTNtL
Felt very accomplished with rewriting today. Combined two chapters into one chapter with half the words; it feels leaner *and* I embedded it more into the chronology *and* I centered it all around a cool new person.
Ten most cursed folders in my keyboard research database.pic.twitter.com/T7sZRkjJrf
I didn’t expect there to be secret documents in the area of keyboard research.pic.twitter.com/h4tKfxKap5
All these is what Artificial Intelligence thinks are keyboards. (The last one is both hilarious and inspired.)pic.twitter.com/I1qmzaA5Gy
These kinds of small moments of preservation make me really happy. Here is a booklet from late 19th century you can all read with me: https://archive.org/details/RemingtonTypewriterFurniture …pic.twitter.com/jxmOoK7pvl
Very happy with how the latest book newsletter issue turned out, even though I accidentally almost destroyed my camera while filming me typing on the one keyboard in my apartment that’s not meant for typing. Lucky 13!https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/the-italian-senate-survival-manual-151502 …
Spot an interloper in my new update to the “book skyline.”pic.twitter.com/YqXZRBmYB1
I got this on eBay for very little. I think it hides a really cool 1990s keyboard, but I’m only going to open it up when I’m finished with the third draft of the book. Also, I might do an unboxing video. Let me know if you’d watch such a thing?pic.twitter.com/p4PSAYu6Bx
A very nice Twitter moment where a bunch of people came together to solve a little keyboard mystery:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1114641852022415360 …
Had it on the docket today to rewrite a chapter a certain way, only to discover *I have already done that at some point.* 0_O Started a five-day effort this morning to finish the third draft. Wish me luck!
One of the many fun moments in this process: chatting with Hartmut Esslinger about why computers became beige/grey, how many shades of beige/grey are there (more than I expected), and what role did keyboards play in all this.
Just a romantic photo of a sun setting on new research. (It’s one of my favourite parts: finding and reading through the most obscure books on the subject.)pic.twitter.com/M9gHpdVOof
First I discover a keyboard on a cable car, and today my spying resulted in discovering a keyboard in the cable car *barn* as well. (A CNC machine, I think?)pic.twitter.com/1FuUDBwAm2
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