Marcin Wichary
@aresluna.org
aresluna.org · Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site · Design @figma · Typographer · Occasional speaker · Chicagoan in training
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Marcin Wichary
@aresluna.org
· Aug 14
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I finally updated my homepage! It’s not really flashy in any way, but it has a lot of links to what I’ve done over the last years.
If you like my work, chances are you will find here something you enjoy.
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If you like my work, chances are you will find here something you enjoy.
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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!
aresluna.org/fav-tech-mus...
I am very curious what tech museums you like – and why!
aresluna.org/fav-tech-mus...
Fav tech museums
A photo essay of 20-something best tech museums I’ve been to
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January 5, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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!
aresluna.org/fav-tech-mus...
I am very curious what tech museums you like – and why!
aresluna.org/fav-tech-mus...
Reposted by Marcin Wichary
This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
Watching Gattaca and The Truman Show and thinking of an alternate universe where Andrew Niccol’s career went… differently.
January 3, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Watching Gattaca and The Truman Show and thinking of an alternate universe where Andrew Niccol’s career went… differently.
Once again, Stanislaw Lem was so terrifyingly prescient. His books Eden and Fiasco (both excellent reads) were basically about this, “the breakdown of shared reality.”
Reading an article by Emily Strasser in Popular Mechanics in which she interviews a scientist in the secretive organization that sets the time on the "Doomsday Clock" every year. Was his biggest fear nuclear war or climate change? No. It was "the breakdown of shared reality." Sobering way to put it
January 2, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Once again, Stanislaw Lem was so terrifyingly prescient. His books Eden and Fiasco (both excellent reads) were basically about this, “the breakdown of shared reality.”
Kudos to Stranger Things for keeping the opening credits synced to music on a strict 3–1 beat throughout its entire five-season run. This would be so so easy to renege on, but someone cared. 👊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO-w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuHO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO-w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuHO...
Stranger Things 5 'Opening Intro' | 4K HDR
YouTube video by JustVibhor
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Kudos to Stranger Things for keeping the opening credits synced to music on a strict 3–1 beat throughout its entire five-season run. This would be so so easy to renege on, but someone cared. 👊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO-w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuHO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO-w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuHO...
Reposted by Marcin Wichary
spent a few liminal nights before the turn of the solar calendar finally doing something about the bitsy tab i've had open in my browser for over a year and learning/bumbling through the making of this tiny dumb game
play it here: wolfchirp.itch.io/rendezvous
play it here: wolfchirp.itch.io/rendezvous
January 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
spent a few liminal nights before the turn of the solar calendar finally doing something about the bitsy tab i've had open in my browser for over a year and learning/bumbling through the making of this tiny dumb game
play it here: wolfchirp.itch.io/rendezvous
play it here: wolfchirp.itch.io/rendezvous
Basically a flawless movie.
December 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Basically a flawless movie.
*in Mary McDonnell‘s incredulous voice*
…whaaat?
…whaaat?
December 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
*in Mary McDonnell‘s incredulous voice*
…whaaat?
…whaaat?
Retro had by far the most interesting, warm, and beautifully designed 2025 recap. (Great use of haptics.)
Maria is my mom. 🧡
Maria is my mom. 🧡
December 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Retro had by far the most interesting, warm, and beautifully designed 2025 recap. (Great use of haptics.)
Maria is my mom. 🧡
Maria is my mom. 🧡
Whoa. Entrance (I think?) to the naval museum in Madrid.
December 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Whoa. Entrance (I think?) to the naval museum in Madrid.
Excited about an imminent series of newsletter posts about some fun keyboards I found since finishing the book.
Subscribe here if this is interesting to you! newsletter.shifthappens.site
Subscribe here if this is interesting to you! newsletter.shifthappens.site
December 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Excited about an imminent series of newsletter posts about some fun keyboards I found since finishing the book.
Subscribe here if this is interesting to you! newsletter.shifthappens.site
Subscribe here if this is interesting to you! newsletter.shifthappens.site
I dare you to find a more impressive bezel.
(This is from a tram museum in Melbourne.)
(This is from a tram museum in Melbourne.)
December 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I dare you to find a more impressive bezel.
(This is from a tram museum in Melbourne.)
(This is from a tram museum in Melbourne.)
I can’t find whom I picked this idea up from a few years ago, but I’m paying it forward: Every year I put this up on the wall, and every evening I try to write something I liked about the day I just had (if anything).
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I can’t find whom I picked this idea up from a few years ago, but I’m paying it forward: Every year I put this up on the wall, and every evening I try to write something I liked about the day I just had (if anything).
1. Looked up “reticle” to make sure I’m using it right. (It’s spelled “reticle” and “reticule,” apparently.)
2. On that page, noticing a photo of a cool device using Gorton.
3. Now I have that device.
2. On that page, noticing a photo of a cool device using Gorton.
3. Now I have that device.
December 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
1. Looked up “reticle” to make sure I’m using it right. (It’s spelled “reticle” and “reticule,” apparently.)
2. On that page, noticing a photo of a cool device using Gorton.
3. Now I have that device.
2. On that page, noticing a photo of a cool device using Gorton.
3. Now I have that device.
This is an incredible consistency.
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This is an incredible consistency.
Throwback to me sneaking in signatures into my books!
Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy…
Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy…
December 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Throwback to me sneaking in signatures into my books!
Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy…
Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy…
I just revisited a little piece I wrote about ten years ago, about TV clock idents.
Turns out:
· There is at least one person out there in the world who also recreates TV clock idents in JavaScript
· The Polish TV clock wasn’t even Polish!
aresluna.org/the-clock/
Turns out:
· There is at least one person out there in the world who also recreates TV clock idents in JavaScript
· The Polish TV clock wasn’t even Polish!
aresluna.org/the-clock/
The Clock
In the 1980s, the dead space between our television programs was filled with… a clock.
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December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I just revisited a little piece I wrote about ten years ago, about TV clock idents.
Turns out:
· There is at least one person out there in the world who also recreates TV clock idents in JavaScript
· The Polish TV clock wasn’t even Polish!
aresluna.org/the-clock/
Turns out:
· There is at least one person out there in the world who also recreates TV clock idents in JavaScript
· The Polish TV clock wasn’t even Polish!
aresluna.org/the-clock/
Reposted by Marcin Wichary
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
This is genuinely a really fun keyboard anecdote and I have never heard of it before. With Tom Scott and the Map Men! youtu.be/TuAc-hsH8XM
The keyboard with 1-2-N-4-5
YouTube video by Lateral with Tom Scott
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This is genuinely a really fun keyboard anecdote and I have never heard of it before. With Tom Scott and the Map Men! youtu.be/TuAc-hsH8XM
It’s been snow time in Chicago for about 10 days now!
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It’s been snow time in Chicago for about 10 days now!
I wonder if the LINC computer from 1962 is the first pixel font on a display, ever.
The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters.
I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?
The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters.
I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I wonder if the LINC computer from 1962 is the first pixel font on a display, ever.
The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters.
I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?
The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters.
I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?
Amazing. Apparently I take enough photos of Sneakers-related stuff that my Photos app is now detecting Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd as my friends.
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Amazing. Apparently I take enough photos of Sneakers-related stuff that my Photos app is now detecting Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd as my friends.
Reposted by Marcin Wichary
'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
It turns out I took 1,203 new photos of Gorton ever since publishing the essay about it in February.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It turns out I took 1,203 new photos of Gorton ever since publishing the essay about it in February.