Miscellany

Newsletter

I started a newsletter documenting the book-writing process, and sharing more keyboard stories. You might like it. Please subscribe or read the best issues:

• #22: The last interview about a conversation with Peter Tytell
• #20: Dear Cynthia about chasing an author of a great photograph
• #26: Moiré no more about fixing old photos
• #34: The monkey lives about this very website (and monkeys and Shakespeare)
• #7: Shift + Shift: appreciating Rick Dickinson, the designer of famous U.K. keyboards
• #11: To walk among keyboard magicians about building a keyboard unlike any other
• #10: A time machine behind the cypress trees about finding a strange time capsule north of San Francisco
• #38: The cursed universes of Dana Sibera about the amazing computers and keyboards that will never exist

Talks

• I pressed ⌘B. You wouldn’t believe what happened next (50 minutes) at CSS Day 2022
• The abridged history of having fun with keyboards (45 minutes) at Beyond Tellerrand 2018
• An Ignite talk about keyboards (5 minutes) at Ignite SF 2016

Internet Archive

This is my little corner of Internet Archive, where I scanned and uploaded over 400 items that I received as part of my research for the book.