New in the collection, pt. 7: Junior Initial Machine
This is the last in a mini-series that started on December 21. ⌘ I regretted not being able to put a DDR controller on that book spread, but I had one even...
New in the collection, pt. 6: Dance Dance Revolution Hand Controller
What was the first time you were impressed by the internet? I remember a few moments: a Polish site cataloguing the starships of Star Trek The Next...
New in the collection, pt. 5: New Hermes NHI 810
I mentioned in the previous issue a rare two-and-a-half-thousand key Japanese typesetting keyboard that I learned was thrown away before I asked about it. It...
New in the collection, pt. 4: Non-Canon Cats
Speaking of Canon word processors, I still don’t know if I can fully explain the grasp Canon Cat (which occupied a big chunk of chapter 32) has on me....
New in the collection, pt. 3: Canon PW-10/15/30
As NEC was experimenting with the M system, elsewhere in the keyboard Sinosphere Canon was doing a different thing. This is Canon PW-10J, another “personal...
New in the collection, pt. 2: NEC PWP-100
A small tidbit about Keyport 717 that caught my eye was people worrying about its memory requirements. If each key can output not just one, but more...
New in the collection, pt. 1: Keyport 717
As soon as the last copies of the book made it to people, I ran away from it toward other projects, none of them including print – a talk about pixel fonts,...
One more prototype
Since the book will soon be delivered to about half the people who ordered it, with many to follow in the next weeks, I thought I’ll start sharing a few of...
The worst thing about writing a book is that one day you’ll be done
A few sentences of dialogue from a 1968 sci-fi book changed the way I look at writing. The book is called Tales of Pirx the Pilot and written by someone...
Cover story, pt. 2
As the book is nearing its delivery, please check out the cute mini game I made out of the book’s slipcase. Click or tap to open Shift Happens Cover Stories...
Cover story, pt. 1
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A to-do list of to-do lists
The dream state of writing a book is the flow state. It’s romantic, this idea that the skies part and perfect words and metaphors and connections flow...
Two days until the end of the Kickstarter campaign!
Hello, friends! I’m finding Kickstarter kind of funny, because it separates milestones in strange ways. A successful Kickstarter is better than a failed one,...
The cursed universes of Dana Sibera
The Kickstarter for Shift Happens still has 10 days to go. Please help us get to $700,000 and unlock a free nice colorful third-volume for everyone by...
The big things and the small things from the last two days
If you backed the book, you have seen some – but not nearly all – of this in my first (!) backer update. The campaign update The Kickstarter campaign was...
The Kickstarter for Shift Happens is live!
Kickstarter I just pressed the Enter key at the right place, and the Kickstarter for my book went live. I hope you find it valuable and entertaining, and...
Kickstarter launches in a week + Launch livestream details
The Kickstarter for the book will launch on Tuesday, February 7, at 9am Pacific! I will send another email before so you won’t miss it, but you can also...
The monkey lives
Happy New Year! The website for the book is ready at shifthappens.site. I’m really excited about it: you can see what the book is going to look like exactly...
A man walks into a progress bar
I’ve printed many versions of the book before using print on demand, but what arrived last week feels so much more important. It’s the first test from the...
The trip to Spain: The bad parts
In the chronology of my Spanish trip going haywire, the hard drive dying came on May 5, after me getting COVID and after the cat sitter locked herself out of...
