(should be fixed now!)

Ah, thank you - looks like our markdown converter is messing it up. Will fix soon.

(For reference, should link here: docs.datomic.com/whatis/data-...)

Thanks! Should be your way soon; I hope you enjoy it!

Thanks - I hope you enjoy it!

Yes! It will be available again at the beginning of the new year.

We've also written up a bit about our first year in business as a bindery & publishing company...

You can read it here: buddybindery.com

It's about how ten layers, from binary up, were arranged to build personal computing and the WWW.

Each layer is built out of the simpler parts of the one below, arranged to produce increasingly more sophisticated ideas of what computing could be.

It’s an incredible story of human ingenuity.

You can order here: buddybindery.com/bootstrappin...

The paperback’s cover (pic in prior post) features a beautiful, original illustration by Owen D. Pomery (thanks for connecting us @paulrony.bsky.social , and for the rec. @andy.works!)

Grab a copy for yourself or a friend - I hope you enjoy it!

Some excerpts, from @jessmart.in's notebook (if you haven't perused his notes before, you should! another lovely treasure on the internet.) notes.jessmart.in/Readwise/Art...

Here's how the case wraps start and finish:

They come into the bindery as a 4' wide, 24 yard long bolt of book cloth (paper-backed fabric), and end up as case wraps for the text blocks to be cased in.

Background: bsky.app/profile/alex...

Link: alexanderobenauer.com/think/2/

Discerning what is at the core, and how to communicate it with others, has taken years. This might be the closest I've come so far.

Part 2 of The Interfaces With Which We Think is out now...

Start at the intro: alexanderobenauer.com/think/
Start at Part 2: alexanderobenauer.com/think/2/

People — both in and outside of the field — often express that they believe this to be a solved problem, and my work potentially a waste of time. This always stirs up some clarity in me! Though it seems self-evident to me, it isn't to everyone.

... This is an elaboration that gets close to the core of why I care about our work. It's taken me years to realize, chipping away each time someone else asks, "but why should *I* care?"

alexanderobenauer.com/think/2/

It's the step before "inventing on principle": you're inventing on intuition, carving the seams of the principle you hold close but that you don't explicitly realize is motivating everything.

There are a lot of things that need to be fixed with software environments, but...