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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve! Working on tools that expand what people can think and do. Past: led R&D @KhanAcademy; helped build iOS @Apple.

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    1. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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      There are surprisingly few serious "web books"! I don't even mean "fancy new media books"—just: written primarily for and read primarily on the web. Collecting some favorites. Please reply with yours! * Butterick's Practical Typography: https://practicaltypography.com  (more 👇)

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    2. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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      * Neural Networks and Deep Learning: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com  * How to Design Programs (2nd ed): https://htdp.org  * Circles, Sines, and Signals: https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/ … * Meaningless (is it a book?!):https://meaningness.com 

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    3. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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      Then there's the class of "web serializations"—books which started as a series of blog posts, or online fan fiction chapters, which were later serialized into "real" books. Those often lose something in book form, since they weren't "designed in one piece," lack a coherent whole.

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    4. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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      Why aren't there more? Well, if you *want* to write a web-first book—again, not even a fancy new-media thing, just a book whose text is online—there's no quick consumer-grade solution. Spin up Ghost and write some HTML, I guess. Or elaborately theme a Wordpress?

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      Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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      Then there's the monetization problem. Lots of people have web sites which vend a PDF, but that's different. More fundamentally, maybe one barrier is just that reading long-form texts—especially book-length texts—on screens is pretty miserable!https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Reading_texts_on_computers_is_unpleasant …

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        2. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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          Andy Matuschak Retweeted ryan

          https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1246939897883066369 …

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          ryan @context_ing
          Replying to @andy_matuschak
          @rjs’ “Shape Up” https://twitter.com/rjs/status/1148705278663090178?s=21 … https://twitter.com/rjs/status/1148705278663090178 …
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        3. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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          Andy Matuschak Retweeted 𝚃𝚘𝚋𝚒 𝙻𝚎𝚑𝚖𝚊𝚗  🧮 💻 😃

          https://twitter.com/tobi_lehman/status/1246941397652889601 …

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          𝚃𝚘𝚋𝚒 𝙻𝚎𝚑𝚖𝚊𝚗  🧮 💻 😃 @tobi_lehman
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          Don’t forget High Performance Browser Networking by @igrigorik https://hpbn.co/ 
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        4. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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          Andy Matuschak Retweeted Matt Diephouse

          https://twitter.com/mdiep/status/1246941499734085632 … (Aside: Why so much programming material? It’s a striking sign that publishing a web book still has significant technical barriers)

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          Matt Diephouse @mdiep
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          Programming Language Foundations in Agda https://plfa.github.io/ 
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        5. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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          Andy Matuschak Retweeted Fadeke Adegbuyi

          These guides look awfully polished (haven’t read any yet myself!):https://twitter.com/fadeke_adegbuyi/status/1246941902869426176 …

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          Fadeke Adegbuyi @fadeke_adegbuyi
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          @holloway's guides are exactly this! https://www.holloway.com/ 
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        6. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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          Andy Matuschak Retweeted Brian Zindler

          I didn’t know that this lovingly crafted and very personal book on the philosophy of design was available as a web book:https://twitter.com/zindlurb/status/1246941939699568642 …

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          Brian Zindler @zindlurb
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          https://shapeofdesignbook.com/ 
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          Andy Matuschak Retweeted lito

          Highly recommended on both counts:https://twitter.com/litonico_/status/1246943012254408706 …

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          lito @litonico_
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          @munificentbob's very good books: Crafting Interpreters (https://craftinginterpreters.com/ ) and Game Programming Patterns (https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ )
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          Andy Matuschak Retweeted mcc

          This is the true winning answer. This book was *so important* to me growing up. Reading it was the first time I realized that programming didn’t have to be utilitarian; it could be expressive. It’s dead but archived here: https://poignant.guide https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1246946406608310273 …

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          mcc @mcclure111
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          why's poignant guide to ruby (possibly deleted??)
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        9. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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          This web book is quite lovingly crafted:https://resilientwebdesign.com 

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          Andy Matuschak Retweeted ryan

          Yet more great recommendations from Ryan:https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1246946641703133184 …

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          ryan @context_ing
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          _How to Draw_ "Draw a Box" https://drawabox.com/lesson/0 
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        2. Geoff‏ @_TheGeoff Apr 5
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          I thought about this a lot whilst working as a bookseller and teaching myself webdev. I kept coming up with ideas, only to realise they'd been done in one form or another. ✅ Hyperlink CYOA ✅ Video cut screens ✅ Dynamic backgrounds Etc etc...

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        3. Geoff‏ @_TheGeoff Apr 5
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          ...and the problem with trying to define a "web book" beyond saying "a book readable on the internet" is that you inevitably exclude a bunch of potential techniques by omission. Depends on the story, and the audience.

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