Should I write more CS or #programming #books? (http://t3x.org)
I have no idea where to announce my books. Hacker news is a lottery and on Mastodon I sell maybe one copy per week. Maybe! People who read my books seem to enjoy them a lot, but usually stumble across them only by accident.
I am not writing for the money, but a new book selling 20 copies per year is disheartening.
Thoughts?
Ned ‘Jonathan’ Schofield
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I gave up air travel nine years ago, and I wrote about it in this new essay on Substack.
Give it a read and a share. I think I've managed not to sound too self-righteous 😉
'What I’ve realised is that flying isn’t just a seriously carbon-intensive mode of transport, It’s a story we’re sold about what it means to live well.'
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/grounded-what-i-gained-by-giving-up-air-travel
#Environment#Scotland#Writing#Books#Climate#Sustainable#Article#Writingcommunity
phoenix🐧🏕🏞🚀🍝
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Deeply disappointed to learn "dark academia" stands for combat training and high school feuds, instead of using forbidden magic to convert your citations into a more arcane format to avoid being cursed by your professor, or finding out Reviewer No. 2 is actually an eldritch being hiding in the basement.
Ulrike Hahn
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BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon Goodreads. BookWyrm has a built-in book catalogue you can choose details from, but if you can't find a particular book you can add it to BookWyrm manually:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-a-book-on-bookwyrm
This guide also answers some common questions about adding books manually.
If you're unfamiliar with BookWyrm and want to find out more about it, there's a general guide to it at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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Support your local independent bookshop!
#Indiebookshopweek #books #reading #bookshops #ChooseBookshops
Taking stuff to landfill when you run out of options is a teaching moment. One can look at the objects going into the hole in the ground, and note them as things to avoid acquiring in the first place.
I'm envisioning a book-trading social network, based on a libre database of all known book publications, commercial, community, or self-published.
People keen to get particular books, or versions of them, can indicate that with a wanted notice. Potentially including a price offer.
People who have books they don't want to keep, can search the wanted notices, to see if anyone does. Whether as a freecycle, or for a price.
Any thoughts about this, including how to do it?
Ulrike Hahn
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Beatrix Potter is best remembered for her charming tales of Peter Rabbit, but did you know she also studied #science?
Potter collected & examined beetles, butterflies, plants, bird eggs, shells, rocks, fossils & especially fungi. She conducted experiments & wrote a scientific paper with her own illustrations, presented at the Linnean Society of London. However, as a woman in the Victorian era, she couldn’t even attend the meeting. #history #art #books
Drawings by Potter of a ground beetle, Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, via Frederick Warne & Co Ltd
Potter aged fifteen with her springer spaniel, Spot. Source: Wikipedia
I spent my £0.25 wisely this morning, as now I know All The Words.
As long as the word you want is about a computer, and you don't want to know about anything after the year 2000.
As a special, time-limited offer, I will give a free definition from this masterpiece to the first ten people to reply with a computer-related term.
