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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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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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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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
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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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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.
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An unintentional moment of irony.pic.twitter.com/GPwD6s8hJP
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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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An unexpectedly satisfying part of writing is making mini-timelines like these ones.They’re sometimes frustrating to piece together (I basically had to rent many old Microsoft Word help books on Internet Archive today), but they help a lot in straightening the story.pic.twitter.com/InjQwubjHr
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It’s in another chapter, fighting with WordStar.
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