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Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by raboukhalil » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 4:05 AM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #50

Nice work. A small note - you might want to redirect http->https on your site, especially as you are taking payments. You wouldn't want a MITM to redirect your customers to another payment processing page. Also my browser is reporting your https certificate as invalid so sort that out too.

Thanks for the tip! Luckily I don’t process payments myself but use Gumroad to do that, so payments are safe, but I’ll get an https certificate for the landing page.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by woodrowbarlow » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 4:16 AM UTC

raboukhalil wrote: post #51

quickthrower2 wrote: post #50

Nice work. A small note - you might want to redirect http->https on your site, especially as you are taking payments. You wouldn't want a MITM to redirect your customers to another payment processing page. Also my browser is reporting your https certificate as invalid so sort that out too.

Thanks for the tip! Luckily I don’t process payments myself but use Gumroad to do that, so payments are safe, but I’ll get an https certificate for the landing page.

if someone mitms your landing page, they'd be hijacking the payment links to redirect to their phishing hook rather than your payment service.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by gggtothesig » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 4:25 AM UTC

zrail wrote: post #42

Congratulations on shipping! You accomplished something that vanishingly few people do. You should be incredibly proud of yourself. Always Remember: the people on this site complaining about price are not your customers, and that’s ok. There are always people on this site that complain about price. When I launched my book and it got on here half the comments were about the price instead of the book itself. Ignore the…

Not completely true, i might complain about the price of a car dosent mean i dont want to buy it

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by titanix2 » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 5:43 AM UTC

zrail wrote: post #42

Congratulations on shipping! You accomplished something that vanishingly few people do. You should be incredibly proud of yourself. Always Remember: the people on this site complaining about price are not your customers, and that’s ok. There are always people on this site that complain about price. When I launched my book and it got on here half the comments were about the price instead of the book itself. Ignore the…

Well here it’s more a self published pdf than a book. It didn’t pass a publisher screening nor got an ISBN so it’s hardly a "real" book.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by thanksDr » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 6:26 AM UTC

titanix2 wrote: post #54

zrail wrote: post #42

Congratulations on shipping! You accomplished something that vanishingly few people do. You should be incredibly proud of yourself. Always Remember: the people on this site complaining about price are not your customers, and that’s ok. There are always people on this site that complain about price. When I launched my book and it got on here half the comments were about the price instead of the book itself. Ignore the…

Well here it’s more a self published pdf than a book. It didn’t pass a publisher screening nor got an ISBN so it’s hardly a "real" book.

Yes, the ISBN is what gives it that booky authenticity.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by maxgraey » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 6:46 AM UTC

So much PR of this book is everywhere, as if Brendan Eich himself wrote it!

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by johnmarcus » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 6:57 AM UTC

How can web assembly deal with per-env variables? Need to recompile for every environment? That means recompile at startup, since I deploy the same artifact to different envs and allow the env to define its vars. For this reason, as a sys admin, I hate web assembly (and most other asset pipelines)

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by iwanttoeatyo » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 7:28 AM UTC

This seems to be a book about unsing emscripten to get c/c++ to run in the browser. What if I want a book about writing wasm from scratch?

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by sidcool » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 7:30 AM UTC

Great job mate! Congratulations for shipping.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

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Post by arendtio » Fri, Mar 01, 2019, 7:34 AM UTC

Looks nice. If you are planning to expand this, I would be interested in a comparison of the different toolchains (e.g. Emscripten vs. Go vs. Rust). Currently, I would choose the toolkit of my favorite language, but I have no idea what kind of consequences such a choice has.