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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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