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Charles Babbage’s mouse pointer
A tour of early user interfaces one never hears about, from Charles Babbage’s 19th-century Difference Engine, to an ancient PC with an attached mouse and no idea what to do with it
Webstock, 2017
30 minutes
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I pressed Command+B. You wouldn’t believe what happened next
Whenever you press Command+B in Figma, what happens is a choreography of events of surprising complexity. It’s a collision
of two worlds – keyboard shortcuts and typography – each one with more depth and history than we would ideally like.
Config, 2020
20 minutes
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The secrets of Google Pac-Man
A fun game show that talks about the original Pac-Man and its Google reincarnation
Google I/O, 2011
1¼ hours
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