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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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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Marcin Wichary Retweeted jonny sun has a new book coming out in april!
Or, in other words…https://twitter.com/jonnysun/status/929883213371232256 …
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jonny sun has a new book coming out in april!Verified account @jonnysunwrite 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 itShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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! at the butterfly keyboard poster. Missed that somehow.
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I only had a quiet mention of this in my newsletter.
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Ah, okay. It's been time for a newsletter catch-up sprint for a little while now.
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