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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Here’s the list of chapters I wrote, and the corresponding titles and keys.pic.twitter.com/Byng6PNDQP
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You might recognize a lot of the keys as still on your keyboard, which is why this is so exciting – each era influenced where we are today.
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I’ve never seen anyone talk about it this way, and I always wanted to. Now I can. And, I suppose, I just did. :·)
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More chapters have been written, and more will have to be. I still need to write the tough ones about QWERTY, ergonomics, and sexism…
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…but this, *this* thing, this milestone, this feels incredible right now. And tomorrow, I’m taking a day off. \õ/pic.twitter.com/C4XUumlmfW
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