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I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Post by kocyigityunus »

eviks wrote: post #23
kocyigityunus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is the operating screen, the app you reading on and the model of the phone ?

Any? PDF is fixed-width and is currently laid out for desktop, so bigger than any phone - though even there, you might want to use the guide side-by-side with your actual host shell to follow some instructions - and hit the same limitation on a smaller laptop screen where text wouldn't fit and you'd have to scroll.

no, it's not. pdf has multiple rendering modes and your problem is the client you are using to view it.

the reason this book being ~20 mb with 750 pages is that %99 percent of the things inside is vectoral, including the variable font that I used. While trying to find the perfect page aspect ratio and the perfect variable font width, I tried it with many different screen sizes, operating systems, dpis etc and clearly tell you that you have another problem.

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Post by kocyigityunus »

eviks wrote: post #23
kocyigityunus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is the operating screen, the app you reading on and the model of the phone ?

Any? PDF is fixed-width and is currently laid out for desktop, so bigger than any phone - though even there, you might want to use the guide side-by-side with your actual host shell to follow some instructions - and hit the same limitation on a smaller laptop screen where text wouldn't fit and you'd have to scroll.

also, happy to discuss if you just can tell me the client program and the device you are using.

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Post by kocyigityunus »

throwaway290 wrote: post #27
ShimbaBumba wrote: post #4

Thank you so much for such a useful book, I really appreciate what you did! But please add alternative payment methods to thank you, I don't trust leaving credit card details on third-party services

I trust gumroad or stripe way way more than some stranger's homegrown CC form

alternative method probably means a coin.

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Post by kocyigityunus »

harvey9 wrote: post #25
kocyigityunus wrote: post #2

I’ve been working on this for nearly two years. I originally aimed to complete it before my son was born, but he’s now 16 months old. Go figure. Seems like writing a book is harder than it looks. My original motivation was to write something I would want to read since most resources I found on self-hosting were either too shallow, lacked real-world examples like code, or didn’t fully address the knowledge gaps I kept…

I got to the word 'book' and got the joke of this submission title. Thanks.

some says don't use the word book, some says use manual but it's old fashion. guide is not probably it for 750 pages. idk.

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Post by eviks »

kocyigityunus wrote: post #32
eviks wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any? PDF is fixed-width and is currently laid out for desktop, so bigger than any phone - though even there, you might want to use the guide side-by-side with your actual host shell to follow some instructions - and hit the same limitation on a smaller laptop screen where text wouldn't fit and you'd have to scroll.

also, happy to discuss if you just can tell me the client program and the device you are using.

For me, it's any device/app: Windows with Chrome/Firefox, Sumatra, PDXChange, iphone Safari, Mac Preview/Skim The chapter looks identical, the first line of chapter 5 is "In the previous chapter, we covered the basics of the Linux operating" and it doesn't reflow when you change zoom on any device, as is pdf-typical, unlike your website where zooming in never loses the "A complete roadmap from Linux foundations to production-grade Kubernetes." text.

But instead of troubleshooting my case, just tell what the ideal client program that breaks the curse of PDF is! I'll even try the Acrobat monstrosity if it's the only one

Re: I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps

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Post by kbitey »

Thanks for the book!

Can you add a machine-readable table of contents to your book? The Firefox PDF reader calls it a "document outline".

This allows navigation using the outline with a PDF reader.

This PDF has an example of such an outline: https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf

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