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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 10 Jan 2018
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      Book idea: Oral histories of common UI design elements and conventions: Gmail’s Butter Bars and Toasts, rotating pizza mouse pointer, pull-to-refresh, Cut/Copy/Paste, double clicking, Ctrl-Tab, slide to unlock. Context surrounding them at the time + today’s perspective.

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Jan 2018
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      Book idea: Stories of encoding challenges throughout computing: Things that went wrong because one part of the system escaped things differently than another – but written for a non-technical (or not-really-technical) audience.

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Jan 2018
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      Book idea: The guided tour of Unicode: Stories of glyphs, politics, technical challenges, typography and engineering, workarounds and mistakes, world’s languages and alphabets. Let various specific Unicode code points walk you through today’s world.

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Jan 2018
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      Book idea: Anthology of day-in-life stories from different chat communities (Unix talk, . SAVED, PLATO, Community Memory, IRC, ICQ, BlackBerry, Slack). Focus on jargon, emergent practices, everyday habits, creative adaptations of the platform.

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Jan 2018
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      (“Book idea” in all of the above is shorthand for something with the right amount of depth and breadth. Could also be a podcast series, a YouTube show, etc.)

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Jan 2018
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      Book idea: When typography and engineering intersect. Don Knuth, segmented displays, bitmap fonts, monospace, HTML. Not just history – also stuff practical and useful today, e.g. how font fallback works, or weird Unicode letters. (Arguably the *obvious* book for me to write.)

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 19 Feb 2018
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary

      Book idea: One of these:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/965692060534648832 …

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      Marcin Wichary @mwichary
      Imagine the premiere Sony Walkman manual written today, explaining the differences from Spotify rather than from record players. Or an iPod user manual that’s presented as a discourse on record labels, DRM, and piracy. Or a manual to a TV written as a… fictional story.
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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 19 Feb 2018
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary

      Book idea: A book version of the Museum of File Formats:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/724323369798131712 …

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      Dreamt that @ruffian and I visited Museum of File Formats in Denmark. Who wants to create Museum of File Formats, in Denmark or otherwise?
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    9. foone‏ @Foone 21 Feb 2018
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      Replying to @mwichary

      I saw a book that was kinda this. it was from the mid/early 90s and had a chapter each on a bunch of graphics/audio/text formats.

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Feb 2018
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      Ah!!! Do you remember the details!?

      8:30 AM - 21 Feb 2018
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        2. foone‏ @Foone 21 Feb 2018
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          no, but I might have taken a picture. lemme dig through my old images.

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          Found it! Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats. Apparently I was misremembering and it was only graphics.pic.twitter.com/oVGsg68Lm9

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