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Marcin Wichary
Personal blog · newsletter.shifthappens.sitedesignhardwarewriting
Marcin Wichary writes Shift Happens newsletter, a personal blog at newsletter.shifthappens.site about design, hardware and writing. Since 2023, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Moiré No More (2021)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Marcin Wichary's newsletter for posts on keyboards and keyboard fonts, retro computer design, and the making of his book Shift Happens. One post on removing scanner moiré with FFT is also cited.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Low-traffic newsletter with keyboard stories, once chronicling the progress of the book about keyboards (since published). Posts by Marcin Wichary. Read the archives first, or
Most-linked posts?
- Moiré No More (2021)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-04
- The cursed universes of Dana Sibera2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-27
What Hacker News says?
Very nice design, that PowerPod 500 on the screen was new to me. Found a pic of it and larger version 3 here: https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/the-cursed-univ...
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on “The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped”Submitted Keyport 717 as a story · 12 points
HN discussionoh, and here's an article that links 'gorton normal' to many keyboard fonts including the apollo DSKY keyboard: https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/a-tale-of-three...
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on “George Gorton Machine Co engraver typefaces”Submitted Moiré No More (2021) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRelatedly, Marcin Wichary wrote a nice post about using FFT to remove moiré and halftone effects when scanning images that were printed with halftones. It's from 2021: Moiré no More ( https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/moire-no-more/ ).
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on “When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration”Submitted A to-do list of to-do lists as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis little game is an offshoot of Marcin Wichary's painstaking process producing his book Shift Happens. You can read a bit more about how he came to build a 3d viewer simulation of his book covers here: https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/cover-story-pt-... That's just one of 46 newsletter entries. Marcin's been working on this book now for 5, 10 years. And documenting the process in meticulous detail, do…
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on “Shift Happens Cover Stories: guess the Shift keys of retro keyboards”Submitted Moiré No More (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted To Save a Keyboard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Newsletter about Making of Shifthappens as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The cursed universes of Dana Sibera as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moiré No More as a story · 1 points
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