Why don’t *you* try to write some recursive code and then I’ll judge you, Firefox.pic.twitter.com/hH7CmWGSim
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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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
Chrome went… a different way.pic.twitter.com/BUTXkAtqhU
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
As a writer I’m supposed to be good with words, so with a mild embarrassment I’m reporting that it took me *two solid days* to realize people saying “progamers” was not a typo for “programmers,” but rather a shortening of “professional gamers.”
In my defense, there’s a huge overlap between keyboards for professional gamers and programmers. (Also, a chapter title “Programmers and pro-gamers” has a nice ring to it.)
chapters to go!
Here’s me with the Cambridge Z88 (lent by @scottjenson) and an appropriately British background.pic.twitter.com/Oxblr3vXJi
One of my favourite moments in this process is when what seems like a forgettable artifact reveals its actual incredible meaning – but only once you look closer and put time in getting to know it.
This is a 1928 thesis about typewriting errors, by Gertrude Ford. On the surface it looks pretty boring… but this is the actual research that inspired a certain August Dvorak to try to reinvent the keyboard. I just got a rare copy of it from the University of Washington!pic.twitter.com/UGJxHkfF43
Also, it bothered me it was so rare, so I just scanned it and put it on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/AStudyOfTypewritingErrorsThesis …
Just finished another one, and now it’s just
chapters remaining.
This is my poor Olivetti Praxis 48 with a spacebar broken in half. (I might 3D print a replacement one day!)pic.twitter.com/OCUZdCyQvJ
For the chapter I’m starting to write today, I am tying Enigma, stenography, and assistive keyboards. If you’re thinking “are those really related?”, I have the same doubts. I guess I’ll find out as I’m writing…?
Had to split it into two chapters in the end. Wrote both via 11,000 words during the last two days, which is some sort of a personal record that I never want to repeat.
So,
. This is me with the worst keyboard I ever wrote on.
ᴵ ᵃᵐ ˢᵒ ᵉˣʰᵃᵘˢᵗᵉᵈpic.twitter.com/V3kmOasF1e
Which keyboard is it? :)
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