I did follow the whole adventure online. I will buy this bokk for sure.
Thanks, Bob. You did a wonderful job.
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I wonder if anyone wrote a book about this!
If you're curious there's a subreddit for a technique like this for building/breaking habits https://www.reddit.com/r/thexeffect
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#103Author here! It feels amazing to have this done and live. I'm happy to talk about whatever you might want to know about it. If you're curious how the sausage was made, I wrote a blog post about taking the web book and bringing it to print and ebook here: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15...
Congrats, Bob, and thanks for all of your time and effort. I enjoyed the illustration videos that you included in the earlier blog post [1] (under "Illustrating by Hand"). That post landed at a time when many of us were badly stressed, and I remember it being very soothing. [1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-craft...
Agreed. Maybe it was just the April-2020 of it all, but "Writing is Suffering" really hit me in the feels. It's inspiring to see all your hard work reach this milestone, and I can't wait to hold it in my hands.
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#105Author here! It feels amazing to have this done and live. I'm happy to talk about whatever you might want to know about it. If you're curious how the sausage was made, I wrote a blog post about taking the web book and bringing it to print and ebook here: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15...
Ordered, thanks. Regrettably I have read fewer than 1% of the books I’ve ever bought, but this one has a much better chance than most. Congratulations on finally putting this project to rest.
Same here to some degree, but my thought in years past was that I could read a purchased [print] book years later, and still express my appreciation (and compensate the author) with a purchase immediately.
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I'm rather hoping you will sell out your print run, actually. :) But to pile in with everybody else, congratulations!
It's print-on-demand so selling out should be hard, but I welcome any attempts to overwhelm the system. :)
So that was step 3 all along! Invite DDOS.
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#107I mostly read PDFs on an iPad. The only books I bought as paperbacks are the ones I will reread over and over out of joy:
Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming
CLRS: Introduction to Algorithms
Strang: Introduction to Linear Algebra
H&P: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
and now I ordered yours, Bob! Just wanted to show my respect. When my crunch time is over at work I will answer the issue I opened on GitHub ;-)
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#108Author here! It feels amazing to have this done and live. I'm happy to talk about whatever you might want to know about it. If you're curious how the sausage was made, I wrote a blog post about taking the web book and bringing it to print and ebook here: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15...
Congrats! Ordered. Been waiting for a physical copy, being able to scribble notes in the margins and bookmark and flip back and forth by hand just works so much better for me.
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#109Author here! It feels amazing to have this done and live. I'm happy to talk about whatever you might want to know about it. If you're curious how the sausage was made, I wrote a blog post about taking the web book and bringing it to print and ebook here: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15...
Thank you so much for all your work on this! I ran through the first part (interpreter in Java, which I ended up doing in Scala for fun) a few years ago, and so much about this sort of thing was demystified for me. I used to think building parsers, tokenizers, AST builders, and interpreters was some sort of unapproachable black magic, but now I realize it's not actually that difficult.
I started working on the second part (decided I'd do this one in Rust instead of C), but got distracted by other things and never got around to picking it up again. I look forward to getting back to it!
Thanks again, and congratulations on getting to this publishing stage!
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#110Author here! It feels amazing to have this done and live. I'm happy to talk about whatever you might want to know about it. If you're curious how the sausage was made, I wrote a blog post about taking the web book and bringing it to print and ebook here: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15...
Thank you so much for all your work on this! I ran through the first part (interpreter in Java, which I ended up doing in Scala for fun) a few years ago, and so much about this sort of thing was demystified for me. I used to think building parsers, tokenizers, AST builders, and interpreters was some sort of unapproachable black magic, but now I realize it's not actually that difficult. I started working on the second…
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