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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 13 Dec 2017
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      Okay, tomorrow’s The Big One. The trickiest of all chapters: All the myths and truths of QWERTY and Dvorak. I spent so much time researching this. The notes alone are 14,000 words. Here’s the lists of all my to-dos, and an already serious batch of title contenders. Let’s go.pic.twitter.com/DwP8fIOoZT

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 13 Dec 2017
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      (Not just 14,000 words of notes. I also wrote a 7,000-word scaffolding document that’s basically an FAQ from myself to myself about what I learned about all this – and a test whether I can answer simple questions like “Did QWERTY slow people down”?)

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 13 Dec 2017
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      (But it’s just facts, and no narrative. Over the next two days, I’m turning all this into a fact-based, but also hopefully *enthralling* story of three separate inventors dying unhappy, having lost to QWERTY – including the very person who invented QWERTY.)

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 13 Dec 2017
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      Oh, oh! Another thing. This is August Dvorak; it’s surprisingly hard to find photos of him. (I’m also trying to get in touch with his family, but it’s hard – mostly since I don’t know how to.)pic.twitter.com/fZow2AMiF4

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 13 Dec 2017
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      I want to say more about this moment – not just to savior it (which I promised myself to do as often as possible on this project), but also to share with anyone’s reading, in case you wonder about embarking on a parallel journey.

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 13 Dec 2017
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      It feels… actually profound to realize that at this moment in time, I might be the best equipped person to untangle the mysteries of QWERTY and Dvorak. And I mean, really. Worldwide.

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 13 Dec 2017
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      It doesn’t mean someone else cannot make smarter connections, work harder, employ more statistical analyses, or discover unknown documents. (God, I hope someone does, since I will learn from them then.) It also doesn’t mean I can’t for sure fuck this up.

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      But right now, I feel I’m the person that can tell this whole story better than anyone else ever before, this story that eluded many experts. It’s a really great feeling.

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 13 Dec 2017
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      And the best part to share: I didn’t get here because I have access to secrets, or because I’m particularly clever. I just really, *really* wanted to figure it out, and I believe I did this using tools and resources that most other people have.

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Dec 2017
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      Taking a short break from writing to validate a keyboard layout hypothesis…pic.twitter.com/f4uQWXwzPy

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Dec 2017
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      Why don’t *you* try to write some recursive code and then I’ll judge you, Firefox.pic.twitter.com/hH7CmWGSim

      11:41 AM - 14 Dec 2017
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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Dec 2017
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          Chrome went… a different way.pic.twitter.com/BUTXkAtqhU

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          7️⃣ to go!!! To celebrate writing about QWERTY/Dvorak, I apparently turned myself into a Dvorak typewriter robot. (Turns out, I have no idea how to take selfies.)pic.twitter.com/QSoGIPOas9

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