André Garzia on writing a technical book André Garzia’s Writing a Technical Book touches upon many of the topics of my forthcoming book on publishing. If you can’t wait for my book, read André’s post. Filed away in Publishing. Also, Roguelike Development with JavaScript sounds like a really fun book.

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Backlinks 2021-04-18 André Garzia’s Writing a Technical Book touches upon many of the topics of my forthcoming book on publishing. If you can’t wait for my book, read André’s post. Filed away in Publishing. 2021-01-15 ScribeCount sounds like a useful tool for Publishing wide and works the way …

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Tally: free form creation Tally looks like a nice service for collecting information (or even payments) from people.

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Aggregators Free Illustrations links to a whole bunch of places to get freely usable art Old Book Illustrations has just what it sounds like, and these illustrations could be helpful for the right kind of project Open Source Vectors undraw illustrations Artists I write fantasy novels, which generally have custom …

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The pandemic’s wrongest man For a debunking of common COVID-19 conspiracy theories or just plain bad info, there’s Derek Thompson’s The Panedemic’s Wrongest Man

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Rust is for Professionals Gregory Szorc’s Rust is for Professionals is his 2+ year experience report from using Rust. tl;dr: He really likes it! Also includes his approach to speeding up compiles.

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Backlinks 2021-04-13 Gregory Szorc’s Rust is for Professionals is his 2+ year experience report from using Rust. tl;dr: He really likes it! Also includes his approach to speeding up compiles.

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Photopea: Browser-based image editor Photopea seems fascinating. It’s a browser-based image editor supporting many common file formats used in professional design (PSD, Sketch, Illustrator, XD, PDF, Figma). Its creator manages to make a very good living, largely from ads. Squirrelbyte Squirrelbyte is an open …

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Backlinks 2021-04-11 Squirrelbyte is an open source document/search server backed by SQLite. The server is written in Go and it has a UI in React for running queries. 2020-04-16 Simon Willison posited that SQL is a better API language than GraphQL and the conversation that followed was quite interesting with good …

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Monster Mash: Draw, Inflate, Animate I remember a few months back when the Monster Mash paper came out and I thought it looked really cool. Google has released the code and even put a demo up at MonsterMash.zone. The short of it is that you can quickly sketch something in 2D, the software then “inflates” it …

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