Weekend Reading: Figma's Typography, Xerox Alto, and a Timeline of CoVID
⌨️ I Pressed ⌘B, You Wouldn’t Believe What Happened Next
An entertaining talk about the complexity of typography, from Marcin Wichary at Figma’s recent Config conference.
🖥 Restoring Y Combinator’s Xerox Alto
An technical piece on restoring Alan Kay’s Xerox Alto he donated to Y Combinator. Amazing piece of technology history, and inspired so many future developments in computing — graphical user interfaces, WYSIWIG text editing, bitmapped graphics, the mouse, and Ethernet for connectivity.
Xerox built about 2000 Altos...
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