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Marcin Wichary

“Of course I like to read nontechnical books, although I read very slowly. Here are some that I heartily recommend.”—Don Knuth

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21 April at 3:34 | Open on mastodon.online
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Marcin Wichary
Axel

@mwichary
Wow, what a story!
This makes Shift Happens even more worthwhile than it already is.

21 April at 8:45 | Open on octodon.social
BBC Micro Bot :mastodon: 🟢

@mwichary

"a labor of love, magnificently designed for people who love keyboards" 😮 ❤️

21 April at 3:46 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
Nicolas Bouilleaud

@mwichary 😍

You might be interested:
Donald Knuth will be a keynote speaker at grafematik 2024 in october (that’s the nerdiest conference I ever attended) grafematik2024.sciencesconf.or

21 April at 4:33 | Open on mamot.fr
Christopher Evans
Stuart Marks
bartosz 🚲🌳🐍

@mwichary I followed the progress of writing the book for many years but I didnt get chance to get my hands on the printed copy. Any chances to get it in an ebook format? 🙏

21 April at 6:31 | Open on mastodon.social
SamuelJohnson
Marcin Wichary

@samueljohnson @btel Unfortunately, no digital edition is planned. Some of the reasons are explained here in the original FAQ (kickstarter.com/projects/mwich), but there are even more – for example, piracy! – and unfortunately the economics are just not there: A digital version would require an incredible amount of effort and frustration (the file formats are brutal) to get to the quality I’d want.

I’m not happy about this outcome, but unfortunately it’s the technology and market we currently have.

@samueljohnson @btel Unfortunately, no digital edition is planned. Some of the reasons are explained here in the original FAQ (kickstarter.com/projects/mwich), but there are even more – for example, piracy! – and unfortunately the economics are just not there: A digital version would require an incredible amount of effort and frustration (the file formats are brutal) to get to the quality I’d want.

21 April at 12:29 | Open on mastodon.online
SamuelJohnson

@mwichary @btel 100% understood. It would be good sometime to see a list of libraries that have a copy.

21 April at 12:51 | Open on mstdn.social
Magnus Ahltorp

@mwichary So now I own two of the books on that list: Shift Happens and The Abominable Man.
21 April at 7:54 | Open on mastodon.nu
Chancerubbage

@mwichary

I love watching his appearances in Numberphile videos on YouTube.

He is a bit more recognizable in his portrait in the Wikipedia article for ‘The Art of Computer Programming’ that the photo used for his biographical entry in Wikipedia.

21 April at 12:02 | Open on mastodon.social
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