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Marcin Wichary

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The Kickstarter for my book about keyboards is live!

It all started here, in a way. I wrote about the Turkish typewriter in 2015, and people seemed to like it. I wrote about how typewriters…

Feb 7, 2023

The Kickstarter for my book about keyboards is live!

Feb 7, 2023

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The rectangle behind you

The making of Four Laps

On May 27, during an internal light talk session at Figma, I gave this remote Ignite 5-minute talk. Here’s how I did it.

May 29, 2021

The making of Four Laps

May 29, 2021

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The rectangle behind you

The rectangle behind you: The Ignite talk that changed room colours

A five-minute Ignite talk I gave at ORD Camp 2019 that interacted with the room

May 29, 2021

The rectangle behind you: The Ignite talk that changed room colours

May 29, 2021

The ghosts of technology in today’s language

Yesterday, on Twitter, I asked:

Dec 31, 2018

The ghosts of technology in today’s language

Dec 31, 2018

The best laid tracks

Stories of San Francisco’s ghost stations

Dec 12, 2018

The best laid tracks

Dec 12, 2018

The rectangle behind you: Follow along and up

I crave follow-ups. When I was little, I loved opening the encyclopedia to learn more about something I just heard — particularly when it…

Nov 20, 2018

The rectangle behind you: Follow along and up

Nov 20, 2018

The rectangle behind you: Choose your own (secret) adventure

As a grandson of someone who worked on the railways I might be predisposed to extreme punctuality, but as a speaker it’d my job to be…

Nov 20, 2018

The rectangle behind you: Choose your own (secret) adventure

Nov 20, 2018

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Figma Design

Figma’s new finger tips

How Doug Engelbart’s famous demo inspired a designer’s lifelong obsession with keyboard shortcuts

Oct 10, 2018

Figma’s new finger tips

Oct 10, 2018

Shift Happens newsletter issue #10: A time machine behind the cypress trees

This is a newsletter for Shift happens, an upcoming book about keyboards.

Oct 10, 2018

Shift Happens newsletter issue #10: A time machine behind the cypress trees

Oct 10, 2018

Shift Happens newsletter issue #8: Four hands on one keyboard

Jul 2, 2018

Shift Happens newsletter issue #8: Four hands on one keyboard

Jul 2, 2018

Marcin Wichary

Marcin Wichary

17.8K followers

Designer/typographer · Writing a book on the history of keyboards: https://aresluna.org/shift-happens

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