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My name is Marcin Wichary (he/him). I’ve worked as a UX designer, typographer, front-end person, and manager at Google, Medium, and Figma. I’ve also written a book about keyboards and typing, gave talks, and published essays about design, typography, and technology.

Unsung is my blog about software craft and quality.

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“You could key smash, and it would type out the thing.”

I can finally update my ancient WarGames reference – turns out the computers on the TV show The Pitt are also preprogrammed to show the right things on the screen regardless of what the actors are actually typing.

But you still need to flail your fingers in vaguely realistic ways, so the actors in this (spoiler-free) TikTok share their strategies: