Marcin Wichary
@aresluna.org
aresluna.org · Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site · Design @figma · Typographer · Occasional speaker · Chicagoan in training
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Marcin Wichary
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· Aug 14
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I finally updated my homepage! It’s not really flashy in any way, but it has a lot of links to what I’ve done over the last years.
If you like my work, chances are you will find here something you enjoy.
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If you like my work, chances are you will find here something you enjoy.
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I can’t find whom I picked this idea up from a few years ago, but I’m paying it forward: Every year I put this up on the wall, and every evening I try to write something I liked about the day I just had (if anything).
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I can’t find whom I picked this idea up from a few years ago, but I’m paying it forward: Every year I put this up on the wall, and every evening I try to write something I liked about the day I just had (if anything).
1. Looked up “reticle” to make sure I’m using it right. (It’s spelled “reticle” and “reticule,” apparently.)
2. On that page, noticing a photo of a cool device using Gorton.
3. Now I have that device.
2. On that page, noticing a photo of a cool device using Gorton.
3. Now I have that device.
December 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
1. Looked up “reticle” to make sure I’m using it right. (It’s spelled “reticle” and “reticule,” apparently.)
2. On that page, noticing a photo of a cool device using Gorton.
3. Now I have that device.
2. On that page, noticing a photo of a cool device using Gorton.
3. Now I have that device.
This is an incredible consistency.
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This is an incredible consistency.
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In my greatest hour of need, where were you
April 2, 2024 at 5:38 PM
In my greatest hour of need, where were you
Throwback to me sneaking in signatures into my books!
Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy…
Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy…
December 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Throwback to me sneaking in signatures into my books!
Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy…
Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy…
I just revisited a little piece I wrote about ten years ago, about TV clock idents.
Turns out:
· There is at least one person out there in the world who also recreates TV clock idents in JavaScript
· The Polish TV clock wasn’t even Polish!
aresluna.org/the-clock/
Turns out:
· There is at least one person out there in the world who also recreates TV clock idents in JavaScript
· The Polish TV clock wasn’t even Polish!
aresluna.org/the-clock/
The Clock
In the 1980s, the dead space between our television programs was filled with… a clock.
aresluna.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I just revisited a little piece I wrote about ten years ago, about TV clock idents.
Turns out:
· There is at least one person out there in the world who also recreates TV clock idents in JavaScript
· The Polish TV clock wasn’t even Polish!
aresluna.org/the-clock/
Turns out:
· There is at least one person out there in the world who also recreates TV clock idents in JavaScript
· The Polish TV clock wasn’t even Polish!
aresluna.org/the-clock/
Reposted by Marcin Wichary
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
This is genuinely a really fun keyboard anecdote and I have never heard of it before. With Tom Scott and the Map Men! youtu.be/TuAc-hsH8XM
The keyboard with 1-2-N-4-5
YouTube video by Lateral with Tom Scott
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This is genuinely a really fun keyboard anecdote and I have never heard of it before. With Tom Scott and the Map Men! youtu.be/TuAc-hsH8XM
It’s been snow time in Chicago for about 10 days now!
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It’s been snow time in Chicago for about 10 days now!
I wonder if the LINC computer from 1962 is the first pixel font on a display, ever.
The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters.
I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?
The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters.
I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I wonder if the LINC computer from 1962 is the first pixel font on a display, ever.
The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters.
I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?
The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters.
I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?
Amazing. Apparently I take enough photos of Sneakers-related stuff that my Photos app is now detecting Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd as my friends.
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Amazing. Apparently I take enough photos of Sneakers-related stuff that my Photos app is now detecting Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd as my friends.
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'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
It turns out I took 1,203 new photos of Gorton ever since publishing the essay about it in February.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It turns out I took 1,203 new photos of Gorton ever since publishing the essay about it in February.
A really interesting (to me) Gorton case study. Same building in Chicago, two sides of the same doorway, and the letterforms are different! Maybe shows how many copies of Gorton were there, modified and shared carelessly?
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A really interesting (to me) Gorton case study. Same building in Chicago, two sides of the same doorway, and the letterforms are different! Maybe shows how many copies of Gorton were there, modified and shared carelessly?
Gorton in Hong Kong confirmed!
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Gorton in Hong Kong confirmed!
I’ve noticed a bunch of intercoms in Hong Kong have this animation of a cat on a loop:
October 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I’ve noticed a bunch of intercoms in Hong Kong have this animation of a cat on a loop:
I’m so excited for this book.
Hello! I'm very proud to announce that my yearslong research project into the lost Sphere computer, corporation, and community has launched a crowdfunding campaign today for a professionally-printed hardcover book, with a compelling narrative and images! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...
Go Computer Now! – The Story of Sphere Computers
A book telling the extraordinary story of Sphere, a 1970s Utah personal computer maker far ahead of its time—until its sudden collapse.
www.kickstarter.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I’m so excited for this book.
@bzotto.bsky.social Good luck! Backer number 5!
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
@bzotto.bsky.social Good luck! Backer number 5!
@halideapp.bsky.social Is it known that assigning Halide to the camera button and invoking it when screen is off leads to a strange experience where the live preview doesn’t show, but the camera still works? iPhone 17, stable iOS. Default Camera app doesn’t have this problem.
October 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
@halideapp.bsky.social Is it known that assigning Halide to the camera button and invoking it when screen is off leads to a strange experience where the live preview doesn’t show, but the camera still works? iPhone 17, stable iOS. Default Camera app doesn’t have this problem.
Name a movie from its Gorton appearance! Can you name all four? (Ordered easiest to hardest.)
October 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Name a movie from its Gorton appearance! Can you name all four? (Ordered easiest to hardest.)
One could make an argument that the Canon Cat prototypes in some ways look even better than the final result.
October 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
One could make an argument that the Canon Cat prototypes in some ways look even better than the final result.
Wanted to give a shoutout to the excellent work of The Digital Antiquarian, whom I only discovered a few months ago.
www.filfre.net/sitemap/
www.filfre.net/sitemap/
» Table of Contents The Digital Antiquarian
www.filfre.net
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Wanted to give a shoutout to the excellent work of The Digital Antiquarian, whom I only discovered a few months ago.
www.filfre.net/sitemap/
www.filfre.net/sitemap/
A cool retro tech aesthetic: an abandoned comms room in a Nowa Huta (Cracow) steelworks – named after Lenin originally.
September 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A cool retro tech aesthetic: an abandoned comms room in a Nowa Huta (Cracow) steelworks – named after Lenin originally.