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End credits | Butterick’s Practical Typography
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Thank you to everyone who has paid for this book. Your support makes my continuing work in typography possible. Thank you to Erik Spiekermann for writing the foreword. Thank you to Matthew Flatt, Jay McCarthy, and the Racket. Thank you to William Lidwell for permission to reprint the butterfly-ballot diagrams. Thank you to Allan Haley for background facts about Times New Roman. For future revisions of the book. Butterfly ballot and redesigned ballot in Why typography matters. The monospaced font is Tripl...
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Deterministic Pixels | Miscellanea by Darren Newton
http://www.darrennewton.com/2015/01/04/deterministic-pixels
Code, design and cultural ephemera. Jan 4, 2015. I’ve always liked identicons. Have used to great effect. The premise is simple: take a user identifier such as an IP or email address and deterministically convert it into an image based on a simple algorithm. To that I end I started hacking on Identikon. Program that generates different types of identicons based on rules modules. I like Lisps and Schemes and have been experimenting. For a while as well as noddling around with The Little Schemer. I had a l...
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Of Quark, Trello and the Endless Sea of Things | Leave it to Barney
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Leave it to Barney. A veteran newsman’s attempt to engage, entertain, enlighten. About me and LITB. Laquo; If “the Internet is Not the Answer,” what was the question? No special hotline: a guide to finding out what’s up. Of Quark, Trello and the Endless Sea of Things. Posted February 9, 2015 by barneyl in Uncategorized. Some times, when you’re grocery shopping, you try something new simply because they are out of the familiar. Like it or not. 8211; an interesting, visual project or process manager –...
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The billionaire’s typewriter | Butterick’s Practical Typography
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A friend pointed me to a story on Medium called. Death to Typewriters,. By Medium designer Marcin Wichary. The story is about the influence of the typewriter on digital typesetting. It references my. Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Wichary. I can’t quibble with the details of your piece. It’s true that Medium and I are opposed to certain typographic shortcuts imported from the typewriter. So, a few words about that. For those who don’t incessantly follow Internet startups, Medium. As a fan of minimalis...
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Beautiful Racket: Introduction
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Thank you for your comment. This book teaches you how to design and implement programming languages using Racket. Racket is a language built for making other languages. My goal is to make this one of the most fun and interesting programming books you’ll ever read. That ought to be easy, because using Racket to make programming languages is the most fun and interesting thing I’ve done in more than 20 years of programming. (This book was itself made with a programming language called Pollen. Learning how t...
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Effluents influence affluence | Butterick’s Practical Typography
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The economics of a web-based book, year two. This book has now completed its second year online. Last year, in my inaugural report,. I described the revenue sources for the book. One of my findings was that only a small fraction of readers about one in 650 supported the book with any kind of payment. For year two, I set a goal of. Getting more readers to pay small amounts not because it makes a big financial difference, but because it instills a virtuous habit. Have you paid yet? The work and the terms.
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How to pay for this book | Butterick’s Practical Typography
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How to pay for this book. This book is partly an experiment in taking the web seriously as a book-publishing medium. I have a role to play in making the experiment work. And so do you. During its second year online, only about one in 1000 readers. Paid for this book. For the full report, see Effluents influence affluence. Seriously, folks this experiment can’t work without your participation. But that doesn’t mean the book is free. Is the text font you’re reading now. Concourse. Equity $119 and up. Advoc...
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Racket: RacketCon
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RacketCon: 20 September 2014. Was held in St. Louis on September 20th 2014. Videos of the talks are available, and linked to from the schedule. Extracting a Goose from a Klein Bottle. Carry on Making that Racket. YouPatch: A Racket-powered startup. Racket for a networked multiplayer game. Infinite Functional Entertainment at 60 FPS! Purely Functional 3D in Typed Racket. Minimart: Organizing Squabbling Actors. Sound: why is it so darn imperative? Like a Blind Squirrel in a Ferrari. Emacs à la mode DrRacket.
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About
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Programmer, writer and engineer. Not necessarily in that order. I’m currently a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. Working under Nate Foster. I am currently part of the Cornell-Princeton Center on Network Programming. Previously I’ve worked at:. Fujitsu Labs of America. As part of their Network Systems Research group. On their static analysis tools. Virginia Tech as part of the Prolangs research group. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Lafayette College. In 2011 wit...