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Episode 10: Marcin Wichary quit his job for his love of keyboards Hobby Horse
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Marcin Wichary (MAR-cheen ve-HAR-ay) is a brilliant writer, coder, and speaker famous for going deep on everything he does. We discuss his entire history from college through joining Google, to creating the famous playable Pac-Mac google doodle, to joining Medium, and ultimately becoming so obsessed with typewriters and keyboards he took a sabbatical from work to begin writing a book, then he never looked back. The first draft of his book is done and now he's in the editing and publishing phase, hoping to release it next year.
Links:
Aresluna — Marcin's personal websiteMarcin Wichary (@mwichary) | TwitterMarcin's college project with logo designs, building layouts, etc.30th Anniversary of PAC-MAN — The greatest Google Doodle of all timeAbove my Google cubicle | Marcin Wichary | FlickrWebstock ‘17: Marcin Wichary - Charles Babbage’s mouse pointer on Vimeo — Marcin's Webstock talk that covers the Pac Man Google Doodle a bitStanisław Lem playable Google doodleCode for AmericaCode for America Summit | Streetmix demo on YouTubeStreetmix: Build a streetCrafting link underlines on Medium – Designing MediumThe curious case of the disappearing Polish S – Medium EngineeringSnow Fall: NYTimes.com — The article demo that launched a thousand design essaysMr. Phelan’s building – Urban explorations – MediumResearching the Phelan Building – Marcin Wichary – Medium — The sort of DVD extras to the previous long piece on the Phelan BuildingWhat I learned about languages just by looking at a Turkish typewriterShift happens: A book in progress – Marcin Wichary – MediumShift happens: How it started – Marcin Wichary – Medium — The story of the start of Marcin's book on keyboardsShift Happens book updates | Revue — Marcin's newsletter about the book if you want to follow alongMarcin Wichary on Twitter: "So, something magical happened to me today, and I wanted to tell you all about it." — A long twitter thread where Marcin details his serendipitous visit to a typewriter museumMarcin's Internet Archive scans and uploadsPodcast Hosting and Analytics - Fireside
Marcin Wichary (MAR-cheen ve-HAR-ay) is a brilliant writer, coder, and speaker famous for going deep on everything he does. We discuss his entire history from college through joining Google, to creating the famous playable Pac-Mac google doodle, to joining Medium, and ultimately becoming so obsessed with typewriters and keyboards he took a sabbatical from work to begin writing a book, then he never looked back. The first draft of his book is done and now he's in the editing and publishing phase, hoping to release it next year.
Links:
Aresluna — Marcin's personal websiteMarcin Wichary (@mwichary) | TwitterMarcin's college project with logo designs, building layouts, etc.30th Anniversary of PAC-MAN — The greatest Google Doodle of all timeAbove my Google cubicle | Marcin Wichary | FlickrWebstock ‘17: Marcin Wichary - Charles Babbage’s mouse pointer on Vimeo — Marcin's Webstock talk that covers the Pac Man Google Doodle a bitStanisław Lem playable Google doodleCode for AmericaCode for America Summit | Streetmix demo on YouTubeStreetmix: Build a streetCrafting link underlines on Medium – Designing MediumThe curious case of the disappearing Polish S – Medium EngineeringSnow Fall: NYTimes.com — The article demo that launched a thousand design essaysMr. Phelan’s building – Urban explorations – MediumResearching the Phelan Building – Marcin Wichary – Medium — The sort of DVD extras to the previous long piece on the Phelan BuildingWhat I learned about languages just by looking at a Turkish typewriterShift happens: A book in progress – Marcin Wichary – MediumShift happens: How it started – Marcin Wichary – Medium — The story of the start of Marcin's book on keyboardsShift Happens book updates | Revue — Marcin's newsletter about the book if you want to follow alongMarcin Wichary on Twitter: "So, something magical happened to me today, and I wanted to tell you all about it." — A long twitter thread where Marcin details his serendipitous visit to a typewriter museumMarcin's Internet Archive scans and uploadsPodcast Hosting and Analytics - Fireside
1 hr 8 min