Very nice. The design reminds me of a website that I forgot to bookmark a long while ago, it was about explaining network protocols at the wire level, and it had some of the most amazing visuals that I ever saw. It's a shame that I forgot what it was, and googling doesn't help. If anyone knows what I'm talking about please share the link.
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#12Very nice. The design reminds me of a website that I forgot to bookmark a long while ago, it was about explaining network protocols at the wire level, and it had some of the most amazing visuals that I ever saw. It's a shame that I forgot what it was, and googling doesn't help. If anyone knows what I'm talking about please share the link.
Let us know if you find that site asking for my kid :)
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#13The subtitle “A reference manual for people who design and build software” seems at odds with the description: > This book won’t teach you how to actually make software […] It’s a manual that explains how the things you use everyday actually work. You don’t need to be technical to read this - there are a lot of pictures and diagrams to do the heavy lifting. You just need to be curious.
A thing for a specific audience, not a thing with a specific purpose, is how i read the subtitle.
the subtitle doesnt say what the reference manual is a reference for. just that software people might like it.
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#14Exceptional landing page, very exciting project.
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#15Commendable effort, i would also like to recommend some topics/chapters/lessons whatever you want to call it
- How microprocessors and microcontrollers work
- Types of storage => RAM / ssd/ hdd / flash drives and storage formats NTFS, FAT32
- OS stuff (theading, multiprocessing, coroutines, scheduling, paging, priority)
- Some data structures stuff (trees, stacks, queues, graphs etc)
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#16How old is this? Copyright at the bottom of the page says "1990".
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#17I'm confused, I can't find the content anywhere. I clicked on the TOC items but that just underlined the words. Is this just an announcement?
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#18I'm confused, I can't find the content anywhere. I clicked on the TOC items but that just underlined the words. Is this just an announcement?
Yes, just an announcement. There's an FAQ at the bottom:
>When will it launch?
> I'm not entirely sure yet. I'd love to get it out before the European summer this year. It's a lot of work to illustrate everything so you might need to have some patience.
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#19Stunningly beautiful landing page. I would never normally comment on the aesthetics of anything in the dev sphere but that completely blew me away. I'll preorder for sure. I'd echo the other comment mentioning that a coffee-table version of this would be great.
Looked up the author's main site:
> Dan Hollick.
> Design, technically.
Blogs about using Figma to create things (like this).
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#20Which chapters are done?
I was very excited to go to (and link/reference) Chapter 2: Fonts and Vectors but it doesn't seem to be done yet?
The progress indicator shows that this is only just begun?