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
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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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
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 …
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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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Marcin Wichary Retweeted
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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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 …
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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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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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
Book idea: What he said.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1015665349545508864?s=21 …
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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
The slide rule reminded me that a less famous but more popular kind of shirt pocket calculator before the transistor was the Troncet-type adder, such as the Addiator Arithma and the Ve-Po-Ad. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/adders/notched-band-adders … - https://www.si.edu/spotlight/adders/notched-band-adders …
Yes! There’s a guy on YouTube that reviews old calculators and it’s just wonderful. He mentioned a few of those!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpFN5_YDQpHMF2XGpV9JKrA …
Still do. An Addiator, a Ve-Po-Ad (in my hip pocket), & a super-thin aluminum & plastic knockoff from the '70s. The knockoff's bands warped a bit, making it a pain to use, but the other 2 are still in reliable working order & occasionally used.
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