To walk among keyboard magicians
I recently gave a talk at a Berlin conference Beyond Tellerrand about keyboards used for fun and for art. I tried to breeze past the obvious stops (ASCII...
A time machine behind the cypress trees
I’ve had, so far, a lot of luck with keyboard-related adventures. Two years ago I stumbled upon a magical typewriter museum in Spain, just a week later I...
Stop me if you’ve seen this one before
That the tech industry is not particularly funny becomes cruelly obvious every April Fools’ Day, when perusing books like these — or, in my world, the day...
Four hands on one keyboard
It was four of us, four teenage boys sitting down to a computer to spend hours playing a videogame known to no one else. It was four of us because the little...
Shift + Shift
This happened about two years ago. It was close to the end of a workday. I was a little stressed out, more than a little tired, a coworker was standing next...
A love letter to the in-betweeners
What am I typing this issue on? Here’s one thing that’s been bringing me a surprising amount of joy when writing the book. No, it wasn’t figuring out final...
Bigger in Japan
My post-first-draft celebration trip took me to Japan. It was a journey of unprecedented intensity, from the urban density of Tokyo to an emotional gut punch...
320K ought to be enough for anybody
What’s going on with the book? In 1867, a Milwaukee inventor Christopher Latham Sholes showed a prototype of the first true typewriter to an outside...
Adult-onset felinophilia
What’s going on with the book? 250K words written as of yesterday, 80% done. It’s now a home stretch towards wrapping up the first draft. Keep your fingers...
The shattered dreams of Ryan Seacrest
What’s going on with the book? Just wrote the thirtieth chapter and crossed 200K words. Still on track to finish the first draft this year. A secret document...
The worst keyboard ever made
This is not only the first newsletter for Shift Happens, but my first newsletter ever. I came up with the format below; let me know what you think! What’s...
