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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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
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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 …3 replies 5 retweets 49 likesShow this thread -
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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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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
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(A few more interesting ones I found.)pic.twitter.com/psEmo2NEW8
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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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Interesting! What would be some examples?
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Some that come to mind, would need more research & also defining what constitutes a "machine" * original Apollo lunar module * early sword hilt * the power socket * original Xerox Parc UI * first touchscreens * first bicycle UI * first pushbuttons * first knobs * first sliders
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Perhaps also: * the Antikythera mechanism UI * Babbage engine UI * first piano-type keyboard * Abacus
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