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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 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Feb 2020
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      After some encouragement – here are four spreads. There are hundreds more. :·)pic.twitter.com/2KGBjba7Ng

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 7 Mar 2020
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      The sticky wall is back! Now tracking finalizing the visuals for each chapter. (Green sticky instead of pink in the first column.) Each chapter is ~90% done, so it’ll happen pretty quickly. Two so far!pic.twitter.com/0k45VeJnyG

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 8 Mar 2020
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      Almost didn’t go to @TypeThursdaySF this week (tired), but so glad I did: someone presented a fascinating project where a typewriter was modified to simplify its letterforms and then create semigraphics-like art. It was so good. I have never seen anything like this before.pic.twitter.com/AdAUGKIEWZ

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Mar 2020
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      The book pile isn’t growing as quickly as it used to (which makes sense), but it’s still growing!pic.twitter.com/L1puePJgPF

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Mar 2020
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          (Note the sign that I made at a sign-making/lettering class five years ago – the book not even an idea yet – which became something of a secret motto/rallying cry.)pic.twitter.com/7UnznvqQpn

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Mar 2020
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          Had a little collaborative Figma/Zoom session yesterday with my good friend @sall to figure out the section breaks in my book. If you’ve seen them done elsewhere or have favourite treatments, please let me know!pic.twitter.com/UGMWT9QfzP

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        4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Mar 2020
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          Here’s our (wonderfully) messy file.pic.twitter.com/IxTUyGLrYz

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        5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 25 Apr 2020
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          Just removed 171 ellipses from my book. Apparently… I really love ellipses. (Next stop: getting rid of “simply” and a lot of the unnecessary italicization for emphasis.)

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        6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 25 Apr 2020
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          “Simply” went from 204 to 49 occurrences. (BTW when the book is published, I am planning to release all the drafts, too, so people interested in writing process can check them out!)

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        7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 17 Jun 2020
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          I haven’t been giving updates on the book much outside of my newsletter, but! Fifth prototype arrived today. It’s pretty much all the words and all the photos. I feel pretty happy about it!!!pic.twitter.com/v9TJPgxW0C

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        8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 17 Jun 2020
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          Fun fact: There are 26 Easter eggs in the book. I don’t know what that says about anything.

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        9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 17 Jun 2020
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          There are over a 1,000 photos in this prototype and they *all* look good and they are *all* chosen deliberately and they *all* help to tell the story. Today this is the thing I’m most proud of.pic.twitter.com/Z4iB01s0T5

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        10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 17 Jun 2020
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          It’s not even that there are things in the book that are pretty rare, and good photos of which never graced the Internet. The book will also have realistic 3D renders of things that couldn’t be shown before, or renders of keyboards that are no longer with us.

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        11. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 17 Jun 2020
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          BTW my promise! Some time after the book launch, I will release tons of PDFs of work in progress/prototypes for people interested – and I will also put all the photos I took for the book on Wikimedia Commons, for everyone to use.

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