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"2023-10-04T19:48:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae45f53f5b6", "title": "Win a copy of Empire of the Sum!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/10/win-a-copy-of-empire-of-the-sum-row/", "published_at": "2023-10-01T19:38:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae45fcc8b20", "title": "We have more winners!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/09/we-have-more-winners/", "published_at": "2023-09-08T08:44:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae4600278d1", "title": "Calculator of the day: the Casio QL-10 Calculighter", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/08/ql-10/", "published_at": "2023-08-29T13:00:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46089bddf", "title": "We have winners -- and a new competition!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/08/empire-competition-round-2/", "published_at": "2023-08-27T20:17:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae4616284f3", "title": "Calculators: a #patentedpodcast with Dallas 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"published_at": "2023-08-22T19:21:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae463439972", "title": "Calculator of the day: Monroe MonroMatic 8N-213", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/08/monromatic/", "published_at": "2023-08-21T19:04:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae463697611", "title": "Calculator of the day: the Curta", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/08/curta/", "published_at": "2023-08-19T19:53:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46371ec80", "title": "Calculator of the day: the slide rule", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/08/the-slide-rule/", "published_at": "2023-08-18T02:31:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae463b65fdb", "title": "Win a copy of Empire of the Sum!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/08/win-a-copy-of-empire-of-the-sum/", "published_at": "2023-08-14T01:36:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae464577e50", "title": "Narbo Martius: a Shady Char­ac­ters field trip", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/07/narbo-martius-field-trip/", "published_at": "2023-07-15T20:01:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46480dd34", "title": "Miscellany № 100: hitting the century", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/06/miscellany-100-hitting-the-century/", "published_at": "2023-06-03T16:35:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae464ef97f2", "title": "Books: a #patentedpodcast with Dallas Campbell", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/04/books-podcast-dallas-campbell/", "published_at": "2023-04-23T18:12:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46500a1a1", "title": "Miscellany № 99: minting the dollar", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/03/miscellany-99-dollar-sign/", "published_at": "2023-03-11T10:26:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae465c04dbe", "title": "Miscellany № 98: a novelistic conundrum", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/01/miscellany-98-a-novelistic-conundrum/", "published_at": "2023-01-13T11:44:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae466aa56fd", "title": "Miscellany № 97: interrobang archaeology, part 2", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2022/11/miscellany-97-interrobang-archaeology-part-2/", "published_at": "2022-11-21T22:50:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae466e6b9e2", "title": "Miscellany № 96: EPA", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2022/09/miscellany-96-epa/", "published_at": "2022-09-14T13:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46714d960", "title": "Museum of London: a Shady Characters field trip", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2022/07/museum-of-london/", "published_at": "2022-07-31T09:41:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae467c60f33", "title": "Miscellany № 95: invention, illumination, and evasion", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2022/06/miscellany-95/", "published_at": "2022-06-05T19:14:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae4688dea4f", "title": "Miscellany #️⃣9️⃣4️⃣: flagging emoji?", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2022/04/miscellany-94-flagging-emoji/", "published_at": "2022-04-16T20:29:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae468b04a13", "title": "Miscellany № 93: a fistful of manicules", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2022/02/miscellany-93-manicules/", "published_at": "2022-02-06T08:37:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae469a35776", "title": "Miscellany № 92: a lightly festive miscellany", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2021/12/miscellany-92-festive/", "published_at": "2021-12-05T10:53:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46a705d63", "title": "Ciemne typki competition: we have a winner!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2021/10/ciemne-typki-competition-winner/", "published_at": "2021-10-06T20:04:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46add1b96", "title": "Win a copy of Shady Characters for National Punctuation Day!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2021/09/win-a-copy-of-shady-characters-for-national-punctuation-day/", "published_at": "2021-09-24T20:09:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46b316c34", "title": "Miscellany № 91: interrobang archaeology", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2021/08/miscellany-91-interrobang-archaeology/", "published_at": "2021-08-16T17:56:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46bc24fd7", "title": "A reminder: email subscriptions are changing", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2021/07/email-subscription-reminder/", "published_at": "2021-07-04T19:22:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46c7933b7", "title": "Changes to email subscriptions", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2021/06/email-subscriptions/", "published_at": "2021-06-30T14:51:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46cf7e839", "title": "Roman all over the place: a Shady Characters field trip", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2021/06/roman-all-over-the-place/", "published_at": "2021-06-27T20:38:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46daa69a3", "title": "Miscellany № 90: 🌀🪐☆✻, or, the grawlix", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2021/04/miscellany-90-grawlix/", "published_at": "2021-04-29T08:31:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae46e494a78", "title": "Announcing a new book: Empire of the Sum", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2021/02/announcing-a-new-book-empire-of-the-sum/", "published_at": "2021-02-07T13:06:53+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Shady Characters × Because Language!original ↗
4 Sept 2026
Miscellany № 112: books!original ↗
24 Jul 2026
An interview with Ollie Wagner, Apple emoji designeroriginal ↗
13 Jun 2026
Miscellany № 111: do the evolutionoriginal ↗
15 May 2026
Miscellany № 110: do the revolutionoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2026
The new Shady Characters is now live!original ↗
17 Apr 2026
A reminder: the new/old Shady Characters will be launching soonoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2026
Cairo: a Shady Characters field triporiginal ↗
6 Mar 2026
Testing the new/old Shady Charactersoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
New year's resolutionsoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2026

2025

Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: PERSON WITH FOLDED HANDSoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2025
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: FACE WITH BAGS UNDER EYESoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: PISTOLoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2025
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: PERSON IN SUIT LEVITATINGoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2025
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: RAINBOW FLAGoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2025
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: SPARKLESoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2025
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: THUMBS UPoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: HAMBURGERoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2025
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: HOT SPRINGSoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2025
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2025: FACE WITH TEARS OF JOYoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2025
Shady Characters × Grammar Girl: a pair of podcasts for your enjoyment!original ↗
15 Sept 2025
The dash for AIoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2025
A Face with Tears of Joy book launch!original ↗
22 Aug 2025
We have Face with Tears of Joy audio book winners!original ↗
15 Aug 2025
Win the Face with Tears of Joy audio book!original ↗
1 Aug 2025
Face with Tears of Joy publication round-uporiginal ↗
26 Jul 2025
Logarithmical: Zipf’s Law and the mathematics of emojioriginal ↗
20 Jul 2025
It's (rest of world) publication day for Face with Tears of Joy!original ↗
17 Jul 2025
We have Face with Tears of Joy winners!original ↗
8 Jul 2025
It's US publication day for Face with Tears of Joy!original ↗
1 Jul 2025
Win a copy of Face with Tears of Joy!original ↗
20 Jun 2025
Miscellany № 109: the terror of the full stoporiginal ↗
13 Jun 2025
Presenting the Shady Characters Periodic Table of Emojioriginal ↗
6 Jun 2025
The reviews are in for Face with Tears of Joyoriginal ↗
25 May 2025
Face with Tears of Joy on 99% Invisibleoriginal ↗
7 May 2025
Face with Tears of Joy, revealed!original ↗
11 Apr 2025
Miscellany № 108: emoji, for all the wrong reasonsoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2025
Miscellany № 107: old books (and a new Book)original ↗
29 Mar 2025
Backing the backslashoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2025
Miscellany № 106: pistols, punctuation and printoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2025
Complying with the Online Safety Actoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2025
Shady Characters on AMSEcast: a podcast about calculatorsoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2025
Miscellany № 105: blog questions challengeoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2025
Miscellany № 104: new year, new miscellanyoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2025

2024

The 2024 Shady Characters gift guideoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2024
Bombs, books and generative AI: a blunt and obvious parableoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2024
Miscellany № 103: calculators!original ↗
23 Aug 2024
Miscellany № 102: books!original ↗
7 Jul 2024
Miscellany № 101: back to our scheduled programmingoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2024
Shady Characters on Alan Alda's Clear and Vivid podcastoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2024
Shady Characters at MacGuffin magazine: interrobang!original ↗
4 Jan 2024

2023

Shady Characters advent calendar 2023: the Sinclair Executiveoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2023
Shady Characters advent calendar 2023: the HP-35original ↗
21 Dec 2023
Shady Characters advent calendar 2023: the Canon Pocketronicoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2023
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2023: the Curtaoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2023
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2023: the E-6Boriginal ↗
15 Dec 2023
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2023: the addiatororiginal ↗
13 Dec 2023
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2023: the Comptometeroriginal ↗
11 Dec 2023
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2023: the arithmometeroriginal ↗
10 Dec 2023
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2023: Wilhelm Schickard's Rechenuhroriginal ↗
7 Dec 2023
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2023: Napier's bonesoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2023
Shady Char­ac­ters advent calendar 2023: Chinese counting rodsoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2023
Shady Characters advent calendar 2023: the tally stickoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2023
We have audiobook winners!original ↗
20 Nov 2023
Win the Empire of the Sum audio book!original ↗
5 Nov 2023
We have (even more) winners!original ↗
8 Oct 2023
Shady Characters at the WSJ: Five Best Books on Great Inventionsoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2023
Win a copy of Empire of the Sum!original ↗
1 Oct 2023
We have more winners!original ↗
8 Sept 2023
Calculator of the day: the Casio QL-10 Calculighteroriginal ↗
29 Aug 2023
We have winners -- and a new competition!original ↗
27 Aug 2023
Calculators: a #patentedpodcast with Dallas Campbelloriginal ↗
26 Aug 2023
Calculator of the day: the HP-35original ↗
25 Aug 2023
Empire of the Sum extracted in Lapham's Quarterlyoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2023
Calculator of the day: the Canon Pocketronicoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2023
It's US publication day for Empire of the Sum!original ↗
22 Aug 2023
Calculator of the day: Monroe MonroMatic 8N-213original ↗
21 Aug 2023
Calculator of the day: the Curtaoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2023
Calculator of the day: the slide ruleoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2023
Win a copy of Empire of the Sum!original ↗
14 Aug 2023
Narbo Martius: a Shady Char­ac­ters field triporiginal ↗
15 Jul 2023
Miscellany № 100: hitting the centuryoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2023
Books: a #patentedpodcast with Dallas Campbelloriginal ↗
23 Apr 2023
Miscellany № 99: minting the dollaroriginal ↗
11 Mar 2023
Miscellany № 98: a novelistic conundrumoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2023

2022

Miscellany № 97: interrobang archaeology, part 2original ↗
21 Nov 2022
Miscellany № 96: EPAoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2022
Museum of London: a Shady Characters field triporiginal ↗
31 Jul 2022
Miscellany № 95: invention, illumination, and evasionoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2022
Miscellany #️⃣9️⃣4️⃣: flagging emoji?original ↗
16 Apr 2022
Miscellany № 93: a fistful of maniculesoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2022

2021

Miscellany № 92: a lightly festive miscellanyoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2021
Ciemne typki competition: we have a winner!original ↗
6 Oct 2021
Win a copy of Shady Characters for National Punctuation Day!original ↗
24 Sept 2021
Miscellany № 91: interrobang archaeologyoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2021
A reminder: email subscriptions are changingoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2021
Changes to email subscriptionsoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2021
Roman all over the place: a Shady Characters field triporiginal ↗
27 Jun 2021
Miscellany № 90: 🌀🪐☆✻, or, the grawlixoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2021
Announcing a new book: Empire of the Sumoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2021
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