I am actually really happy about this. One of my fears when sitting down to this project was: what new can I even add to any of this?
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I read so many accounts of the birth of personal computing, from writers like Steven Levy who are way more talented than me.
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But I feel good about this chapter. I found a new way to connect all this, centered around the keyboard (and UI in general).
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In my research, I found little details that nobody ever mentioned before.
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And, I will tell the story of the infamous 1969 Kitchen Computer in a new way I have never seen it being told!
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@OrkneyDullard!) just reminded me of my first truly long-form piece, which I wrote in 2012:https://twitter.com/orkneydullard/status/903737224767963140 …Marcin Wichary added,
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It felt like such a complex piece, a personal milestone as a writer, and was one of the big building blocks that led to the idea of a book.
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When you’re planning for a new chapter and realize you might have a small continuity problem.pic.twitter.com/8cbS2085af
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Just had to descend into the murky waters of ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/NoteStore.sqlite, to recover a timeline of…
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…keyboard shortcuts I painstakingly constructed – and then lost owing to a careless use of ⌘X without a matching ⌘V. How deeply ironic.
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In February, I posted this sticky note, saying that untangling all of this will be the biggest challenge.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/827303721528811520 …
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Today, I finished untangling it, reaching an amazing milestone of finishing the last chapter that ties this whole arc together. (Sic!)
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This arc might be the backbone of the book; it’s the story of what happened to keyboards between typewriters and computers today.
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