Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming • Hacker News Board

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by Thoreandan » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 12:45 AM UTC

xellisx wrote: post #3

h4waii wrote: post #2

Very much a nitpick, but I really wish the font remained consistent between articles.

Didn't 2600 change fonts all over too?

It's still publishing. I suppose it does. I hadn't actually noticed that aspect, as much as expecting it in the magazine format they're going for.

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by liability » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 1:00 AM UTC

This is really dope, I love the aesthetic. The varied style of each page is rather appealing to me, in a way I think it reminds me of combing through something like textfiles.com or archive.org, you don't know what to expect next and that's exciting.

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by MikeTheGreat » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 1:08 AM UTC

Is there an RSS feed available for it?

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by ramses » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 1:12 AM UTC

Happy to see that there is still interest in this kind of content/aesthetic (reminded me of Phrack).

Will definitely follow :-)

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by vonholstein » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 1:13 AM UTC

Why the purple? Dont know if its just me, but found the styling to be a distraction. The content is good enough to stand by itself without the font and color gimmickry.

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 1:17 AM UTC

vonholstein wrote: post #25

Why the purple? Dont know if its just me, but found the styling to be a distraction. The content is good enough to stand by itself without the font and color gimmickry.

For my part, I think it looks great!

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by kgwxd » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 1:17 AM UTC

MikeTheGreat wrote: post #23

Is there an RSS feed available for it?

This would be really great. The Google Groups thing seems an odd way to handle subscribing to notifications. Especially in a time when people are trying to ditch Google.

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by dangoor » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 1:24 AM UTC

devnulloverflow wrote: post #19

It looks good. I'm going to print it. But does every page have a different retro theme, or is there a unifying pattern to it all that I am not genius enough to detect?

I think that's one of their ideas: the author of the article creates whatever format they want for their page and then they glue them all together in their PDF.

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by JoeDaDude » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 1:25 AM UTC

Great! Will follow and subscribe. I miss magazines like this, in particular Algorithm Magazine, edited in the 1990s by A. K. Dewdney.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dewdney Note: Dewdney's role in the Algorithms Magazine is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article.

Re: Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

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Post by ExtremisAndy » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 1:35 AM UTC

Oh, my! This could not be more perfect for someone like me. I have too short an attention span for long technical articles (not something I'm particularly proud of btw), so the one-page thing is fabulous. I also love that there seems to be such a variety of topics. Finally, I actually really enjoy pulling up and reading a PDF on the iPad. Gives it that real magazine 'feel' that websites just can't get (IMHO). Well done!