Nostr notes by Marcin Wichary

What the actual hell. Chrome installed a global Ctrl+G keyboard ...

2026-07-20T14:44:20Z

What the actual hell.

Chrome installed a *global* Ctrl+G keyboard shortcut to launch Gemini even if I’m using a different app, and didn’t ask me about it.

Today, I held in my hand a drawing of a Dvorak keyboard… made ...

2026-04-11T02:20:06Z

Today, I held in my hand a drawing of a Dvorak keyboard… made by Dvorak. 😳

All the classic colors of CRTs: amber, white, green, and burn-in. ...

2026-04-09T01:35:08Z

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All the classic colors of CRTs: amber, white, green, and burn-in.

This is a rare space-saving variant of the famous DEC keyboard ...

2026-04-09T01:34:26Z

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This is a rare space-saving variant of the famous DEC keyboard that established the inverse T arrow key standard.

Here: symbols for inverse video, blinking, underlining, and… ...

2026-04-09T01:34:04Z

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Here: symbols for inverse video, blinking, underlining, and… something?

I miss the old terminal proofreading-inspired icons for INSERT ...

2026-04-09T01:33:38Z

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I miss the old terminal proofreading-inspired icons for INSERT and DELETE.

(Mastodon rate limited me! More in a bit.)

2026-04-09T01:06:43Z

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(Mastodon rate limited me! More in a bit.)

Which one is more scary: a Mac keyboard pretending to be a Space ...

2026-04-09T01:05:35Z

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Which one is more scary: a Mac keyboard pretending to be a Space Cadet, or a Kaypro keyboard with an extremely intense overlay?

Loved this guarded (and hyphenated) RESTART key. ...

2026-04-09T01:04:43Z

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Loved this guarded (and hyphenated) RESTART key.

Speaking of, some more nice keyboards. ...

2026-04-09T01:04:25Z

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Speaking of, some more nice keyboards.

…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this ...

2026-04-09T01:03:55Z

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…but I have never seen a screen-less printer-terminal like this one!

This Dasher line famously inspired Severance set design… ...

2026-04-09T01:03:00Z

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This Dasher line famously inspired Severance set design…

On the other hand, this is a cool way to choose a font. ...

2026-04-09T01:02:33Z

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On the other hand, this is a cool way to choose a font.

A strange way to put an LED inside a button. ...

2026-04-09T01:01:49Z

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A strange way to put an LED inside a button.

Although the FILE UNSAFE… switch? light maybe? was unexpected. ...

2026-04-09T01:01:21Z

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Although the FILE UNSAFE… switch? light maybe? was unexpected.

…and some very good regular switches, too. (I liked the whole ...

2026-04-09T01:01:01Z

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…and some very good regular switches, too.

(I liked the whole hierarchy of toggles in that last photo.)

Some very good on/off switches… ...

2026-04-09T01:00:34Z

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Some very good on/off switches…

DEC disk pacs (and some magnetic tapes) everywhere. ...

2026-04-09T01:00:06Z

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DEC disk pacs (and some magnetic tapes) everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK05

This magnificent Enter on both sides of this Singer/Friden ...

2026-04-09T00:59:25Z

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This magnificent Enter on both sides of this Singer/Friden minicomputer console.

Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh! ...

2026-04-09T00:58:29Z

Some fun photos from Large Scale Systems Museum near Pittsburgh!

I am sending reverse help! Buy more!!! Teletypes are amazing.

2026-04-03T21:40:36Z

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I am sending reverse help! Buy more!!! Teletypes are amazing.

Please send help I keep buying programmable keypads ...

2026-04-03T21:34:58Z

Please send help I keep buying programmable keypads

Here we go: https://unsung.aresluna.org/the-curse-of-the-cursor

2026-03-20T12:44:16Z

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Here we go: https://unsung.aresluna.org/the-curse-of-the-cursor

In this promotional photo from Apple, the headphones are more ...

2026-03-16T02:06:05Z

In this promotional photo from Apple, the headphones are more expensive than the computer.

When researching for my Fn/Globe essay, I found that Centre ...

2026-03-15T18:51:21Z

When researching for my Fn/Globe essay, I found that Centre Pompidou’s site has a bunch of cool photos of Richard Sapper’s IBM PC Convertible models and prototypes. Really fun to see a computer evolve this way.

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/recherche/oeuvres?terms=convertible

I am planning a trip to Germany (especially South Germany) in a ...

2026-03-12T09:24:29Z

I am planning a trip to Germany (especially South Germany) in a few months. If you have any recommendations for tech history, museums, industrial sites, nerdy things, I would appreciate them.

Stuff like Deutsches Museum, the cool train in Wuppertal, Arithmeum and Analog Computer Museum, ZKM, Landschaftspark… Anti-recommendations (“overrated,” “not worth the time”) are also welcome.

Thank you in advance!

I think it’s okay and even necessary to judge a book by the ...

2026-03-11T21:03:28Z

I think it’s okay and even necessary to judge a book by the cover and unfortunately the cover and typesetting and photos in this new book are pretty disappointing. 🙁

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design ...

2026-03-09T16:10:23Z

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.

Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!

https://aresluna.org/fn

Thanks! Yeah, I can see that. I would imagine it needs to be ...

2026-03-06T12:49:08Z

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Thanks! Yeah, I can see that. I would imagine it needs to be opt-in or carefully onboarded. I also don’t have much hope that Gtk+ had a good UI for it, ha

Also it’s not clear how you remove shortcuts in this kind of a system.

Ugh, Tahoe is so unpolished that if you press on any menu like ...

2026-03-04T03:32:06Z

Ugh, Tahoe is so unpolished that if you press on any menu like this the pop-up contents that appear are misaligned…

…which doesn’t seem like much until you realize that if you click at the bottom, a click and release *without moving your mouse*, which was always 100% safe (and a way to “peek” into a menu to see what’s inside), can now accidentally change your option.

A very good use of Gorton. ...

2026-02-27T15:00:55Z

A very good use of Gorton.

You bet I’m writing a blog post.

2026-02-25T05:45:03Z

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You bet I’m writing a blog post.

For comparison, the 2020 video: ...

2026-02-25T05:42:43Z

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For comparison, the 2020 video: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10640/

Answering my own question: ...

2026-02-25T05:40:42Z

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Answering my own question:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/208 starting at 8:45, but there’s no explanation, just the sort of “we’ve always been at war with eastasia” one expects from Apple’s polished statements.

Did Apple explain why they abandoned the ...

2026-02-25T05:16:03Z

Did Apple explain why they abandoned the snapping/magnetic/shape-changing iPad mouse pointer announced in 2020, and went to a more traditional arrow last year?

I was waiting for better Chrome integration, but if that exists ...

2026-02-24T19:38:51Z

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I was waiting for better Chrome integration, but if that exists in Tahoe, I’m not updating to that anyway.

Ah, thanks. I need just to do that to begin with. I’ve been ...

2026-02-24T19:38:12Z

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Ah, thanks. I need just to do that to begin with. I’ve been procrastinating, but running two password managers is even more confusing.

(Already half-switched to Apple’s Passwords but might re-think ...

2026-02-24T18:20:17Z

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(Already half-switched to Apple’s Passwords but might re-think that – have half a year to figure it out! Please send recs.)

Just the little push I needed. ...

2026-02-24T18:02:40Z

Just the little push I needed.

Did anyone ever do good writing about/visualization of ...

2026-02-22T22:28:30Z

Did anyone ever do good writing about/visualization of compression methods? I’ve been there when .arj was dethroned by .zip, .mp2 gave way to .mp3, H.264 has been supplanted (I think?) by H.265, and most recently PNG has been duking it out with both WebP and AVIF. And yet, I realized I don’t really understand *why* all of these ones that are better are actually better.

This has been debunked! ...

2026-02-17T15:46:16Z

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This has been debunked! https://computer.rip/2023-03-13-the-door-close-button.html

31. Xenotron went for green. ...

2026-02-16T20:52:58Z

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31. Xenotron went for green.

30. This logo is interesting. 1980s were once the future! ...

2026-02-16T20:49:11Z

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30. This logo is interesting. 1980s were once the future!

29. Also, this ligature is kind of nice! ...

2026-02-16T20:47:57Z

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29. Also, this ligature is kind of nice!

28. These photos are very regal. ...

2026-02-16T20:47:17Z

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28. These photos are very regal.

27. Super interesting to see Bill Gates like this. ...

2026-02-16T20:46:03Z

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27. Super interesting to see Bill Gates like this.

26. A very interesting typewriter wraparound with more function ...

2026-02-16T20:41:36Z

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26. A very interesting typewriter wraparound with more function keys.

25. Not fully altogether onboard with this colour scheme. ...

2026-02-16T20:39:59Z

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25. Not fully altogether onboard with this colour scheme.

In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing ...

2026-02-16T01:31:07Z

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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/

24. This keyboard is yet another entry in the classic ...

2026-02-15T02:06:37Z

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24. This keyboard is yet another entry in the classic Return/Enter story!

The main paragraph break (Enter) is a ¶ pilcrow, which is amazing. Above it is QC (Quad Center, or Enter + Align Center) and QR (Enter + Align Right), and even QM (Quad Middle? Not sure what that means).

And you can see New Line, or today’s Return, in the vicinity.

23. A single stroke of this key. ...

2026-02-15T01:55:51Z

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23. A single stroke of this key.

22. Kinda looks like an Ouija board. ...

2026-02-15T01:53:30Z

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22. Kinda looks like an Ouija board.

21. The keyboard of Comp/Set 4800, and an 8" floppy disk. ...

2026-02-15T01:51:52Z

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21. The keyboard of Comp/Set 4800, and an 8" floppy disk.

20. More cool keys from the Photon. ...

2026-02-15T01:48:57Z

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20. More cool keys from the Photon.

19. I would have put this in my book in an instant. ...

2026-02-15T01:47:27Z

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19. I would have put this in my book in an instant.

18. This company is called G. O. GRAPHICS. Cute. ...

2026-02-15T01:45:54Z

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18. This company is called G. O. GRAPHICS. Cute.

17. More red computing. ...

2026-02-15T01:43:50Z

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17. More red computing.

16. Bad Boys (1995) ...

2026-02-15T01:42:33Z

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16. Bad Boys (1995)

15. This cool drawing of a keyboard for a manual, with a lot of ...

2026-02-15T01:41:37Z

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15. This cool drawing of a keyboard for a manual, with a lot of corrections and whiteouts (if you look closely).

14. I associate compact cassettes with cheap home computers, but ...

2026-02-15T01:40:42Z

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14. I associate compact cassettes with cheap home computers, but that hasn’t always been the case.

13. Just this aesthetic. ...

2026-02-15T01:39:04Z

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13. Just this aesthetic.

12. This photo from the same Harris brochure is also cool. ...

2026-02-15T01:37:30Z

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12. This photo from the same Harris brochure is also cool.

11. Holy lord, look at this colour-coordinated Avis setup from ...

2026-02-15T01:32:14Z

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11. Holy lord, look at this colour-coordinated Avis setup from 1979.

10. You could have a 1,000 tries, and you would never guess how ...

2026-02-15T01:31:14Z

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10. You could have a 1,000 tries, and you would never guess how VariTyper named its Helvetica knock-off.

9. Charles Darwin would have approved of Linoterm. ...

2026-02-15T01:29:00Z

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9. Charles Darwin would have approved of Linoterm.

8. Micomp High Speed Programmable Keyboards. ...

2026-02-15T01:27:52Z

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8. Micomp High Speed Programmable Keyboards.

7. Now LaserMaster™ Compatible ...

2026-02-15T01:26:23Z

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7. Now LaserMaster™ Compatible

6. Some evocative Comp/Edit product photos. ...

2026-02-15T01:24:33Z

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6. Some evocative Comp/Edit product photos.

5. Need a typeface fast? Call Type Express. ...

2026-02-15T01:22:48Z

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5. Need a typeface fast? Call Type Express.

4. Both of these machines (Linotext MBK 500/600) are very ...

2026-02-15T01:20:36Z

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4. Both of these machines (Linotext MBK 500/600) are very cool-looking.

3. This could’ve been me if I played my cards right. ...

2026-02-15T01:18:56Z

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3. This could’ve been me if I played my cards right.

2. Autologic had a very good photographer. ...

2026-02-15T01:17:14Z

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2. Autologic had a very good photographer.

This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I ...

2026-02-15T01:14:31Z

This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.

(Eventually all of this will be processed and deposited at Internet Archive!)

1. You don’t see a lot of yellow in computing.

This was the funniest thing I’ve seen so far. ...

2026-02-15T00:49:36Z

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This was the funniest thing I’ve seen so far.

I’m at the Museum of Printing this weekend! So far I’ve ...

2026-02-15T00:18:25Z

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I’m at the Museum of Printing this weekend! So far I’ve scanned 750+ pages. I wonder if I’ll learn anything new, or will it be mostly color, but either way it’s been interesting.

I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you ...

2026-02-12T17:38:54Z

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I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you from other UI!†

I’m very curious if you have other examples I missed.

(† Not related to the street drug.)

https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/

I learned about this cool exhibit at ACMI in Melbourne today, and ...

2026-02-10T03:35:21Z

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I learned about this cool exhibit at ACMI in Melbourne today, and immediately had to write about it.

It simulates working at a help line for a videogame company in 1993, complete with fictitious games, and a physical 300-page binder of various documents. Amazing.

https://unsung.aresluna.org/this-sounds-completely-impractical-and-we-love-it/

An appreciation of one tool that does screenshotting in a really ...

2026-02-05T03:44:13Z

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An appreciation of one tool that does screenshotting in a really interesting way, plus the history of how ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 ended up where they are.

https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-shoot-a-screen-using-a-board-of-keys/

A post about the pretty inspiring and strange software that is ...

2026-02-02T21:28:24Z

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A post about the pretty inspiring and strange software that is Strudel, sort of a command line/text editor for music. I want my CSS authoring to feel this way.

https://unsung.aresluna.org/we-can-go-deeper-by-patterning-inside-of-our-pattern/

There’s been chatter about The Moylan Arrow recently – the ...

2026-01-31T16:56:14Z

There’s been chatter about The Moylan Arrow recently – the indicator showing which side of the car fuel intake is on. Which made me think: What would be the equivalent of this in software?

My best guess is iOS offering to fill the one-time code from a recent SMS:
- everyone benefits from it
- happens all the time
- solves a real little (but not too little) frustration
- right place/right time
- relatively low-tech
- once you know it’s there, you love it forever

Curious what others think!

I will occasionally link to a post from the blog that I feel ...

2026-01-26T17:03:57Z

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I will occasionally link to a post from the blog that I feel really good about, if you don’t mind!

From this morning, a review of the documentary Koolhaas Houselife, ostensibly having nothing to do with UX design:

https://unsung.aresluna.org/movie-review-koolhaas-houselife/

I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it ...

2026-01-23T21:24:03Z

I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it official: I started a little Tumblr-like microblog about software craft and quality!

You can sign up via RSS or a weekly newsletter digest. There’s already almost two months of content in there, if you just want to check it out.

Hope you like it!

https://unsung.aresluna.org/

A trip to Museum of Printing in Massachusetts booked for ...

2026-01-20T22:26:32Z

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A trip to Museum of Printing in Massachusetts booked for February!

I was so eager to scan this after it came because it was months ...

2026-01-14T14:02:15Z

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I was so eager to scan this after it came because it was months before one appeared on eBay!

This is a manual for a popular Compugraphic typesetter, with a very different approach to markup that’s more similar to control characters in e.g. WordStar.

Everything is based on specialized keys, and displayed with special characters, shade, and underline.

Imagine a version of HTML where you’d need a keyboard with a key for each tag!

Check it out here: https://archive.org/details/compugraphic-edit-writer-family

Elsewhere in RCA docs, ASCII is already being referred to, with ...

2026-01-10T05:54:15Z

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Elsewhere in RCA docs, ASCII is already being referred to, with <> listed, but [] or {} not available. Interesting!

And the teletype console seems to have only () and maybe <>? What a mess! I might not get anywhere here.

Where we would expect <> today are just , . But they’re ...

2026-01-10T05:23:26Z

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Where we would expect <> today are just , .

But they’re also available unshifted.

This was pretty typical for typewriters. Shifting was kind of heavy, and ,. punctuation very common… so often ,. were there both shifted and unshifted on those two keys.

I don’t know yet what layout perforators were used, but ...

2026-01-10T05:21:43Z

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I don’t know yet what layout perforators were used, but here’s the RCA Spectra terminal, using a pretty standard Selectric keyboard (and some other buttons – a pretty typical setup of the time).

What’s interesting is that <> are nowhere to be seen, but [] are there as alts on the 1 key.

https://archive.org/details/TNM_RCA_Spectra_70-752_video_data_terminal_20180205_0106

“A battery of girls on perforators.” ...

2026-01-10T05:17:29Z

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“A battery of girls on perforators.” https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/16/archives/processing-of-long-book-is-entirely-by-computer.html

I just ordered online on Biblio a copy of that book, just for fun. It’s not expensive.

I’m trying to figure out what were the keyboards that were used ...

2026-01-10T05:12:56Z

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I’m trying to figure out what were the keyboards that were used with RCA VideoComp (or Hell Digiset, which I understand is the alt/original name of the device). One of the arguments against braces and pro angle brackets is that the latter weren’t easily available – but at least here it seems this wasn’t a problem.

By the way, I have never heard of a roman (non italic/non ...

2026-01-10T04:56:57Z

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By the way, I have never heard of a roman (non italic/non oblique) style being referred to as “erect.”

Scanned the book here if you are interested! ...

2026-01-10T04:52:34Z

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Scanned the book here if you are interested! https://archive.org/details/computer-composition-using-page-1

And more information about RCA PAGE-1 (VideoComp) is here: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/ARCHIVE-RCA/RCA-Engineer/1968-04-05.pdf

Oh, wow. Got a book about RCA PAGE-1, a typesetting system which ...

2026-01-10T04:51:55Z

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Oh, wow. Got a book about RCA PAGE-1, a typesetting system which came out in 1967.

In it, they talk about typical stuff like [tf,4;mi,50;bs,100;mx,150] for changing fonts, and [ob] for italics/oblique and [ro] to go back to Roman…

…but the also have a concept of [c1] and [c2] and [c3] that are actually starting to feel kind of semantic! They still are more for macrodefinitions/expansion – kind of like the “Lucy” of this space – but that’s much earlier than I expected.

Also: braces. 😍

Making a website work well in Mobile Safari feels to me exactly ...

2026-01-06T03:50:56Z

Making a website work well in Mobile Safari feels to me *exactly* like making stuff work for IE6 was back in the day: Always some arbitrary behaviour, spending hours to restore normalcy, and the best case scenario is a nasty hack.

Every time I publish a new essay something like this comes up, and this part of the process is always so unpleasant.

Right now I’m staring at this problem in iOS 26 (related to an image carousel) and just… it’s so frustrating and depressing: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256138682?sortBy=rank

Thank you! I follow their YT channel and it’s on my list. Are ...

2026-01-05T17:32:43Z

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Thank you! I follow their YT channel and it’s on my list. Are there specific reasons you like them?

I wrote a photo essay with 20+ of my favourite tech museums in ...

2026-01-05T17:25:06Z

I wrote a photo essay with 20+ of my favourite tech museums in the world, and tried to figure out what makes a great museum in the process.

I am very curious what tech museums you like – and why!

(Will work on any device, but worth checking out on the biggest screen you or your neighbour might have.)

https://aresluna.org/fav-tech-museums/

Sort of curious about something. We’ve been seeing all of these ...

2026-01-04T19:39:13Z

Sort of curious about something. We’ve been seeing all of these cool shaders approximate CRTs by adding scanlines, distortions, etc. But did anyone ever write a CRT *simulator*? Like actually simulating the electron gun running and hitting the mask etc.?

This would be sort of an equivalent of raytracing or doing emulation via FPGA. It would definitely be a lot more costly, of course, but I’m curious if we have enough performance already and whether the results would be interesting.

When you really want the internet, but the internet doesn’t ...

2025-12-27T16:15:51Z

When you really want the internet, but the internet doesn’t exit yet.

I wonder how many services like this existed. The old Netflix (Qwikster, heh) is maybe the most famous one?

And this one has double braces, which presumably avoids the need ...

2025-12-27T16:07:20Z

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And this one has double braces, which presumably avoids the need to escape single braces if the appear in text.

This is an interesting way. Instead of delimiters using ...

2025-12-27T16:01:48Z

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This is an interesting way. Instead of delimiters using punctuation, a combination of regular in-band letters (qq) is used that is just not meant to appear in real text.

We didn’t see dollar signs yet, did we? ...

2025-12-27T04:51:42Z

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We didn’t see dollar signs yet, did we?