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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 7 Nov 2017
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      If starting a new chapter is consistently the worst part of writing, the feeling tonight is one of the best: I wrote most of a chapter today, and tomorrow is just riding the momentum and finishing it.

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 9 Nov 2017
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      As I’m nearing the completion of the first draft, the reference book piles loom higher and higher. (left = today, right = when I started)pic.twitter.com/6omisfp0Xb

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 9 Nov 2017
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      Trying to keep sane with a few related side projects that are not just about writing. Testing a brand new one. The next newsletter is going to be something special!pic.twitter.com/TP74JTpqXm

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 15 Nov 2017
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      80% done towards the first draft. Today’s chapter was awful: writing for eight hours through a headache, ended up with what feels like plodding, incoherent mess.

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 15 Nov 2017
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      But I suppose that’s good. Done is better than perfect, and so on. What’s awful to write is not always awful to read – plus, even if so, things can be made better in future revisions.

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 15 Nov 2017
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted jonny sun has a new book coming out in april!

      Or, in other words…https://twitter.com/jonnysun/status/929883213371232256 …

      Marcin Wichary added,

      jonny sun has a new book coming out in april!Verified account @jonnysun
      write it. the sooner u write it the sooner it will exist apart from u. the sooner u can spend days thinking its no good then come back to it realizing its better than u thought. the sooner u can convince urself some past version of u wrote it and now u can get to work updating it
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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Nov 2017
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary

      In “Internet can still be good sometimes” news, I am having an email conversation with someone who actually used this 1959 Italian computer:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/931588975868837888 …

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      Marcin Wichary @mwichary
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      Olivetti Elea 9003 computer console and keyboard, designed by Ettore Sottsass, 1959. pic.twitter.com/QBrzRpVuq2
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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Nov 2017
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      He sent me the computer’s manual (!!!), which I’m trying to understand via Google Translate. (And already uploaded to Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Olivetti-Elea9003-ManualeBaseDiProgrammazione …)pic.twitter.com/wdGFTgvOXN

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 26 Nov 2017
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      I’m now at ten chapters left (including the intro and outro!), so I am doing A GIANT COUNTDOWN TO THE FIRST DRAFT. I will celebrate each chapter with a PR stratagem of posting a selfie with a keyboard I own. I don’t really do selfies, ever, so this will be… new. 🔟!!!pic.twitter.com/ciWtN399pd

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Nov 2017
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      By the way, as I’m doing the necessary research, I am absolutely falling in love with Chinese and Japanese, and the histories behind their writing systems. I had no idea. You could spend your whole life studying those, and it would be a life well spent.

      5 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Nov 2017
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      Whoa, I just managed to write “weather” in Japanese using a romaji keyboard, a hiragana keyboard, and by drawing the kanji shapes directly on my trackpad. It took me a few hours to get there, giving me a net speed of about… 0.02 wpm. But I feel rather accomplished! AMA.pic.twitter.com/Pb4Wqhc0qf

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        2. Ryo Lu‏ @ryolu_ 27 Nov 2017
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          Nice word choice, Simplifed / Japanese / Traditional all use the same word but written differently: 天气 天気 天氣

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Nov 2017
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          Oh, that’s great. I’m also proud I understand everything you just said and how it’s connected. :·)

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Nov 2017
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          When I started working on this book, I had no idea I would end up in a Cyber Monday shopping guide – particularly before the book is even finished! http://www.munidiaries.com/2017/11/27/your-super-local-very-sf-cyber-monday-guide … 0_O

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        3. ▀‏ @TopLeftBrick 27 Nov 2017
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          ! at the butterfly keyboard poster. Missed that somehow.

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        2. Melissa ㊛ Tama-Neko‏ @melissalouie 27 Nov 2017
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          Handwriting input on touch devices is so amazing. Handwriting input via a Thinkpad nubbin is… uh, not so amazing, but usually the IME is smart enough to understand my chicken scratch anyway!

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Nov 2017
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          Oh, cool! I never thought of the ThinkPad thing. I just typed “weather” on the swipe ten-key on my phone!!! Next level.

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