Nice landing page, but I'm confused. The header is about software, but many diagrams are about hardware.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, it's aesthetically beautiful. It should be a coffee table book. But for the web, it has terrible usability. Really, really terrible in multiple ways. My comments will be harsh, but since the creator is obviously very skilled, he should know better. Why multicolumn text? So it looks like an old printed manual? At first view, it's not clear where the first column ends. This is not something we see on the web (b…
> Justified text is bad on the web. Is there any reason why justified is okay printed but not on the web.
Beause in print you would typically use your publishing software to adjust various things, like where hypenated word breaks should happen. This is much trickier in digital media, and usually just isn't done, resulting in ugly word spacing.
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#33This is awesome. Reminds me of that book "How Things Work" that breaks down the everyday item into understandable pieces
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#34nice, but spotted several inaccuracies on the landing page. perhaps not the best reference.
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#35The author should make a meta-entry about how he makes the (insanely beautiful) diagrams in the book (ideally walking through the process).
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#36Nice landing page, but I'm confused. The header is about software, but many diagrams are about hardware.
It'll come in handy for when I try to destroy a hard drive by getting the actuator arm to move back and forth at the drive's harmonic frequency.
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#37copyright 1990? I doubt that. layout and finish are first rate on this.signed up for the mailing list - hoping it will be touched again in 1991
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#38The author should make a meta-entry about how he makes the (insanely beautiful) diagrams in the book (ideally walking through the process).
The pair of animations on the page are beautifully done, not just technically but aesthetically as well. If the rest of the book is like that I'll be getting a copy.
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#39The author should make a meta-entry about how he makes the (insanely beautiful) diagrams in the book (ideally walking through the process).
In the FAQ:
07 How do you make the illustrations?
By hand, in Figma. There's no secret - it's as complicated as it looks.Re: Making Software
#40Stunningly 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.
Agreed, it's aesthetically beautiful. It should be a coffee table book. But for the web, it has terrible usability. Really, really terrible in multiple ways. My comments will be harsh, but since the creator is obviously very skilled, he should know better. Why multicolumn text? So it looks like an old printed manual? At first view, it's not clear where the first column ends. This is not something we see on the web (b…
Disagree on the animations. They are both beautiful and detailed, clearly illustrating the point.
Your other criticism I agree with.