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Marcin Wichary

โ€œOf course I like to read nontechnical books, although I read very slowly. Here are some that I heartily recommend.โ€โ€”Don Knuth

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21 April at 3:34 | Open on mastodon.online
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Marcin Wichary
Alex Schroeder

@mwichary wow, that truly is a validating moment! ๐Ÿ˜„

21 April at 7:09 | Open on social.alexschroeder.ch
Axel

@mwichary
Wow, what a story!
This makes Shift Happens even more worthwhile than it already is.

21 April at 8:45 | Open on octodon.social
BBC Micro Bot :mastodon: ๐ŸŸข

@mwichary

"a labor of love, magnificently designed for people who love keyboards" ๐Ÿ˜ฎ โค๏ธ

21 April at 3:46 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
Nicolas Bouilleaud

@mwichary ๐Ÿ˜

You might be interested:
Donald Knuth will be a keynote speaker at grafematik 2024 in october (thatโ€™s the nerdiest conference I ever attended) grafematik2024.sciencesconf.or

21 April at 4:33 | Open on mamot.fr
Christopher Evans
Stuart Marks
bartosz ๐Ÿšฒ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ

@mwichary I followed the progress of writing the book for many years but I didnt get chance to get my hands on the printed copy. Any chances to get it in an ebook format? ๐Ÿ™

21 April at 6:31 | Open on mastodon.social
SamuelJohnson
Marcin Wichary

@samueljohnson @btel Unfortunately, no digital edition is planned. Some of the reasons are explained here in the original FAQ (kickstarter.com/projects/mwich), but there are even more โ€“ for example, piracy! โ€“ and unfortunately the economics are just not there: A digital version would require an incredible amount of effort and frustration (the file formats are brutal) to get to the quality Iโ€™d want.

Iโ€™m not happy about this outcome, but unfortunately itโ€™s the technology and market we currently have.

@samueljohnson @btel Unfortunately, no digital edition is planned. Some of the reasons are explained here in the original FAQ (kickstarter.com/projects/mwich), but there are even more โ€“ for example, piracy! โ€“ and unfortunately the economics are just not there: A digital version would require an incredible amount of effort and frustration (the file formats are brutal) to get to the quality Iโ€™d want.

21 April at 12:29 | Open on mastodon.online
SamuelJohnson

@mwichary @btel 100% understood. It would be good sometime to see a list of libraries that have a copy.

21 April at 12:51 | Open on mstdn.social
Magnus Ahltorp

@mwichary So now I own two of the books on that list: Shift Happens and The Abominable Man.
21 April at 7:54 | Open on mastodon.nu
Chancerubbage

@mwichary

I love watching his appearances in Numberphile videos on YouTube.

He is a bit more recognizable in his portrait in the Wikipedia article for โ€˜The Art of Computer Programmingโ€™ that the photo used for his biographical entry in Wikipedia.

21 April at 12:02 | Open on mastodon.social
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