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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 14 Dec 2017
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      Chrome went… a different way.pic.twitter.com/BUTXkAtqhU

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 15 Dec 2017
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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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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 18 Dec 2017
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      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.”

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 18 Dec 2017
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      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.)

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2017
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      6️⃣ chapters to go! Here’s me with the Cambridge Z88 (lent by @scottjenson) and an appropriately British background.pic.twitter.com/Oxblr3vXJi

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2017
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      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.

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2017
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      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

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2017
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      Also, it bothered me it was so rare, so I just scanned it and put it on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/AStudyOfTypewritingErrorsThesis …

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Dec 2017
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      Just finished another one, and now it’s just 5️⃣ 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

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 31 Dec 2017
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      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…?

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Jan 2018
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      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, 4️⃣. This is me with the worst keyboard I ever wrote on. ᴵ ᵃᵐ ˢᵒ ᵉˣʰᵃᵘˢᵗᵉᵈpic.twitter.com/V3kmOasF1e

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        2. Lisa Hyphen Hirsch (Moot, Meritless, & Dangerous)‏ @LisaIronTongue 2 Jan 2018
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          Which keyboard is it? :)

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Jan 2018
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          IBM PCjr “Freeboard,” but the second edition. Somehow even worse than the chiclet original, even though it looks better on the outside. I wrote for a day on the chiclet. This one I couldn’t stand.

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        2. Blake Patterson‏ @blakespot 4 Jan 2018
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          But that’s the better of the two that system saw in its short life!

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jan 2018
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          Disagree! I typed for a day on both versions.

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jan 2018
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          An unintentional moment of irony.pic.twitter.com/GPwD6s8hJP

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 7 Jan 2018
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          As of today, my first draft has both Clinton and Trump in it. Guess which one of them is treated with respect, and which one with cutting subtext.

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