(I know I haven’t updated this thread in a while, but I’ve been spending last many months working on the visual side of the book. It’s hard to talk about it and not show anything – but showing things would be spoiling things!
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I haven’t been giving updates on the book much outside of my newsletter, but! Fifth prototype arrived today. It’s pretty much all the words and all the photos. I feel pretty happy about it!!!pic.twitter.com/v9TJPgxW0C
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Fun fact: There are 26 Easter eggs in the book. I don’t know what that says about anything.
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There are over a 1,000 photos in this prototype and they *all* look good and they are *all* chosen deliberately and they *all* help to tell the story. Today this is the thing I’m most proud of.pic.twitter.com/Z4iB01s0T5
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It’s not even that there are things in the book that are pretty rare, and good photos of which never graced the Internet. The book will also have realistic 3D renders of things that couldn’t be shown before, or renders of keyboards that are no longer with us.
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BTW my promise! Some time after the book launch, I will release tons of PDFs of work in progress/prototypes for people interested – and I will also put all the photos I took for the book on Wikimedia Commons, for everyone to use.
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How will you distribute the different versions? I want to release an annotated version of mine with 200 pgs of notes and 1000 bibliographic sources
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Will probably do something simple and custom…
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You’re going to build a timeline viewer so we can scrub through changes, aren’t you…?! (That would be rad.)
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Ideally, yes! (Time-permitting…)
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