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Brennan Stehling

@evan We need this book. I look forward to it. Will you be polling for feedback as you decide the outline? I recall John Resig did something like this with one of his books.

7 Sep 2023 at 16:37 | Wall-to-wall | Open on sfba.social
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Evan Prodromou

@brennansv I did not plan to, but that's a good idea.

7 Sep 2023 at 17:07 | Open on cosocial.ca
Brennan Stehling

@evan I found one of his blog posts about this process so you can see how it helped him shape the outline and subject matter. He was incredibly open and honest as he prepared to write the book which made me anxious for the release.

johnresig.com/blog/state-of-th

7 Sep 2023 at 17:16 | Open on sfba.social
Bob Jonkman

@evan

I'd like to read a bit of the history, the design decisions that went into OStatus, how that influenced PumpIO, and how that became ActivityPub (or is that ActivityStreams?)

And I'd love to read about the whole ControlYourself - Laconi.ca - StatusNet startup process, the stories of the people, the sadness of winding down. But maybe that's your next book...

@brennansv

8 Sep 2023 at 5:27 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
Brennan Stehling

@bobjonkman My expectation is this book will focus on the technical details and show readers the protocol and how it can be used. I also would like a book or maybe a website which covers the story of how everything came together.

For a different protocol, SIP, they use to do what they called "bake offs" where developers would get together to try integrating their code to make sure the protocol was implemented correctly. At one point Pillsbury demanded they stop using that term. It would be fun to attend a "bake off" for ActivityPub.

cs.columbia.edu/sip/sipit/pill

@evan

@bobjonkman My expectation is this book will focus on the technical details and show readers the protocol and how it can be used. I also would like a book or maybe a website which covers the story of how everything came together.

For a different protocol, SIP, they use to do what they called "bake offs" where developers would get together to try integrating their code to make sure the protocol was implemented correctly. At one point Pillsbury demanded they stop using that term. It would be fun to...

8 Sep 2023 at 16:07 | Open on sfba.social
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