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Marcin Wichary

@aresluna.org

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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 @aresluna.org · Aug 14

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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Marcin Wichary’s site

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 2h

It is!!!

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 2h

Name a movie from its Gorton appearance! Can you name all four? (Ordered easiest to hardest.)

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 11h

I know it’s sort of an observer effect: that getting to billions changes you in a way that cancels out thinking like I just did. Which is one of the reason it shouldn’t be allowed to happen (so easily).

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 11h

This is what bothers me so much. Whenever I bike or walk around any city, it’s not hard to imagine what one could support in terms of just city improvements if they had tens, hundreds, or thousands of millions of $. Stuff that would benefit everyone: infrastructure, arts, community.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 23h

(I miss asymmetry in computer design.)

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 23h

More direct views where you can see the keyboards better, too:

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 23h

One could make an argument that the Canon Cat prototypes in some ways look even better than the final result.

Canon Cat as finished

Canon Cat prototype

Canon Cat prototype

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 5d

Ugh, what a beautiful animal.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 11d

Great timing for me – thanks for sharing!

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 12d

I just counted and it’s 627 essays! Holy damn.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 12d

I want some version of a reverse RSS reader just to make sure I read it all and don’t miss a story. It’s actually possible I read Jimmy before, but I only clicked on “table of contents” this year and it made me want to read it all.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 12d

But also: Look at this list! www.filfre.net/sitemap. There must be something in there for you.

He’s been doing this since 2011! Isn’t this kind of a creative dream? To do something you enjoy, and do it well, for decades on end? I’m in awe (and in some amount of envy) just by seeing this.

» Table of Contents The Digital Antiquarian

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 12d

I also found his general Sierra On-Line history fascinating, and learned a lot from this Acorn/Amstrad story, even though I thought I knew all about it: www.filfre.net/2016/06/acor...

» Acorn and Amstrad The Digital Antiquarian

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 12d

Today, I read about Riven, a sequel to Myst (www.filfre.net/2024/05/riven/), and Blade Runner, the adventure game from 1997 (www.filfre.net/2024/05/blad...) – and in both cases the essays had more than I expected.

» Riven The Digital Antiquarian

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 12d

Jimmy writes about games, and specifically (but not exclusively) adventure games, and his writing is enjoyable, confident and just, I don’t know, dependable. No gimmicks. Just solid all-around work.

» Riven The Digital Antiquarian

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 12d

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/

» Table of Contents The Digital Antiquarian

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 13d

I don’t know if they deliberately color-coordinated that orange wood and that bluish gray, but it looks amazing.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 13d

A cool retro tech aesthetic: an abandoned comms room in a Nowa Huta (Cracow) steelworks – named after Lenin originally.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 13d

Oh, there is wrong for sure? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Effect of Color Temperature of Light Sources on Slow-wave Sleep

PDF | In order to examine whether the spectral compositions of light source may affect sleep quality, sleep architecture under different color... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

www.researchgate.net

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 14d

Find already has options for “case sensitive” and things like that. It doesn’t seem far fetched to imagine checkboxes for “ignore comments” etc.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15d

@plumberduck.bsky.social repeatedly → reportedly? www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15d

Got it, thanks!

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15d

Is that the same as eigengrau?

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 16d

Done.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 20d

Thanks!!!