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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 11 Jun 2019
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      My friend @GlennF pointed out August Dvorak’s grave (in Seattle) kind of looks like a split keyboard. 0_Opic.twitter.com/B28gjtStci – at Mount Pleasant Cemetery

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Jun 2019
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      Slowly, but surely: working on the visual side of the book.pic.twitter.com/cw20XlhEDh

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 25 Jun 2019
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      I forgot how much I love emulators.pic.twitter.com/7gxVzetGfD

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 20 Jul 2019
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      I was scanning a few photos today from a 1920s sales newsletter for Royal Typewriter Company for my book, and – since it took some effort to actually get it – I thought it would be nice to preserve *all* of it.pic.twitter.com/5TLY3OUHPV

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 20 Jul 2019
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      Scanning the oversized volumes on the library’s small scanners seemed like days of work. Instead, I set up a tripod with my iPhone in the library, grabbed my little Bluetooth remote.pic.twitter.com/in9KmXeNoZ

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 20 Jul 2019
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      Only a little over an hour later, I had all 376 pages photographed. I even took photos of white pieces of paper to see where the shadows were, and used it as a mask to fix uneven lights in the library.pic.twitter.com/MJ1LDTwCWl

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 20 Jul 2019
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      And now five years of Royal Standard – 50,000+ words – are on Internet Archive for anyone to read: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Royal+Typewriter+Company%2C+Inc.%22 … (Sure, this is not the best quality possible, but much better than nothing – particularly since I also OCR’ed all the text, making it searchable.)

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 20 Jul 2019
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      I love feeling like a good historian/preservationist! And there are so many tiny things there that mean a lot, for example this “Royal progress in Poland”: https://archive.org/details/the-royal-standard-1924-9/page/n3 …

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 20 Jul 2019
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      (I know I haven’t sent many book updates recently, but I’ve been working hard on the typesetting and particularly visuals. Over 200 photos are already in the book, and I’m proud of many of them that I found, and some that I took. My goal is to send a newsletter within days!)

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 20 Jul 2019
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      In the meantime, please enjoy this photo of an awesome Typewriter Car.pic.twitter.com/qqoPOCVegv

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jul 2019
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      Preparing for (tomorrow’s?) newsletter!pic.twitter.com/e4gqfrvJoJ

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 13 Aug 2019
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          A portrait of a person slowly losing their mind in the infinite number of typesetting details.pic.twitter.com/4jAJM91Svc

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Aug 2019
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          Four years ago, I wrote a Medium post about the Turkish typewriter. I wonder if without that post – and the positive reception to it – I would’ve ever embarked on my book project. I’m taking photos of that typewriter for the book today, and it feels like meeting a patron saint.pic.twitter.com/TsNRoBRYX1

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        4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 25 Aug 2019
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          My newsletter is at 992 subscribers now – so close to 1,000!!! (Please sign up for fun keyboard stories, updates on book production, previews, and be the first to know when the book is ready!)https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/ …

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        5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 26 Aug 2019
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          Yes!!!pic.twitter.com/O6rIYfIrHz

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        6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Aug 2019
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          🤷‍♂️pic.twitter.com/79vZ895O5e

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        7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Sep 2019
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          Should I change my name y/npic.twitter.com/scdtyEylRu

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        8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Sep 2019
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          It’s been hard to read other books for a while now. As I read, my mind keeps going to either “ah, this is nice, will people be so engrossed in my book?” or “this is so much better than what I’ve done.”

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        9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Sep 2019
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          Then, I keep pausing to write down new ideas, or places to rewrite, or turns of phrases to steal.

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        10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Sep 2019
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          And even without any of the above, I keep noticing typographical or typesetting details, and wondering about those, too.

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        11. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Sep 2019
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          (For example, I am trying to read “A burglar’s guide to the city” and just spent 5 minutes wondering whether these decorative paragraph breaks were cute or not, as my eyes blindly followed sentences without my brain registering anything.)pic.twitter.com/IenJVeJlm3

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        12. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Sep 2019
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          Always happy when I can take what seem like an unsalvageable photo, and through the magic of Lightroom and Photoshop turn it into an okay one.pic.twitter.com/NzAIEc5LJq

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        13. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Sep 2019
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          Spent most of today photographing keyboards from @keyboardio’s collection. (For the book.) After I was done, I realized I photographed 56 (!) keyboards.pic.twitter.com/T2xY9dW8rA

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        14. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Sep 2019
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          Also, sometimes the best part of the keyboard is its connector.pic.twitter.com/IOWwP5BoAD

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        15. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Sep 2019
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          Fun fact: Each keyboard received, on average, 670 megapixels.

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        16. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 12 Oct 2019
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          #caturday with a sweet cat in my lappic.twitter.com/3fMDRFM1xL

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        17. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 15 Oct 2019
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          I woke up early to visit a faraway library before work, and scan one particular photo for the book. I grabbed the volume, and it opened at the exact very page that had the photo I wanted. 😮pic.twitter.com/sQmw1GAud5

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        18. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Oct 2019
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          2007-2019 (The original iPhone courtesy @jfire.)pic.twitter.com/8mln8AM1Im

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        19. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Nov 2019
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          As much as I love words and writing, taking a nice photo of an important artifact brings me as much joy. This is today’s book-bound photo of quite possibly the best keyboard ever made.pic.twitter.com/evkXIypmuO

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        20. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 9 Nov 2019
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          Had fun at the keyboard meetup in San Jose today!pic.twitter.com/KiJSDt9HPJ

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        21. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Nov 2019
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          I keep coming back to this photo: four generations of people in awe of the Space Cadet keyboard (I’m assuming for very different reasons). Knowing what seem like more impressive keyboards, I don’t fully understand the enduring appeal of Space Cadet… but it’s undeniable.pic.twitter.com/LKgYDGsm9P

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        22. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Nov 2019
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          Huh. This turned out kind of nice.pic.twitter.com/4xVJnZf6p4

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        23. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 17 Nov 2019
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          In following another thread, I found an excellent photo of an overlay on top of a keyboard – among the best I’ve ever seen. I got really excited and immediately wanted to contact the photographer. Then I realized *I* took this photo, thirteen years ago: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2276490226/ …pic.twitter.com/sqQYw3mtbt

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        24. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Dec 2019
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          Can you afford to miss this week’s newsletter and learn what on the earth is this supposed to be? That’s right, I didn’t think so. Sign up here if you haven’t already! https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/ …pic.twitter.com/S7JwUW1y4h

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        25. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Dec 2019
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          Today my worlds collided – historical research for the book was helpful in figuring out a weird bug at work: pressing Shift+numpad 2 wasn’t working on Windows.pic.twitter.com/IFNB8KYk6m

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        26. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Dec 2019
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          (Hilariously, the person I was referring to complained that this secret feature was already poorly understood and documented by mid-1980s. And here were are in very, very late 2010s, and it’s still rearing its ugly head.)

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        27. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Dec 2019
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          The glamour of book writing: endless days on your couch cleaning up images in Photoshop while rewatching TV + cleaning a gross typewriter to prepare for a photo… in your bed, because you ran out of floor space.pic.twitter.com/vE01VnkGtl

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        28. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Dec 2019
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          Also, somehow there is also a vintage BlackBerry in my bed! I have no recollection of this.

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        29. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Feb 2020
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          Compiling a list of acknowledgements for my book and getting… unexpectedly emotional? So many great people who’ve generously helped me, and on so many levels, too. Thank you.

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        30. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Feb 2020
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          (I know I haven’t updated this thread in a while, but I’ve been spending last many months working on the visual side of the book. It’s hard to talk about it and not show anything – but showing things would be spoiling things!

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        31. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Feb 2020
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          Still, I have So Many Great Photos for the book. I’m really excited for you to see them. And this part of the work should be finally done within weeks… and then the next newsletter comes!)

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