It's for funsies. Haven't you ever done something for funsies?
Mostly I just wanted to make some nice open-license illustrations and the book is just kind of a bonus. I'm not trying to make a buck; everything you need is available on the website.
I've been teaching archivists for a long time and everybody has to start somewhere. I think this is a good starting place, especially for folks that need to know how to figure out what something even is, or the potential content or historical context/era. Especially for folks that don't work with video often, they can get easily freaked out/overwhelmed. I think it's going to be either required or recommended reading for at least three archives courses this fall that I know about.
It doesn't, it's a pretty simple book, intentionally. I had to remove a lot of more technical "fun facts" and replace them with something more historical / market-context-oriented so it would be fun for total novices (I had my mom tell me what was too confusing for her and swapped those out).
I think one of the best books out there for really getting into video (algorithms, et al) is Charles Poynton's Digital Video and HDTV.
thank you so much!! CSS is so good these days, thanks to the dedicated and hard work of standards authors. I recommend that anyone who has been driven into a blind rage trying to do something simple like center divs give CSS another shot now that we have CSS Grid.
Ya! Although extreeeeeemely kludgy, I did so many hacky things -- definitely could not be used as a template for anything else and is a bit weird/embarrassing. I'll pretend it's an homage to the 90s web even though it's actually just laziness. ;)
I initially started with GatsbyJS/React, but it was stopping me from getting to what I needed to do (CSS + content). So even though I was going to start with full JS, it ended up JS-free (I don't use any trackers), which also saved me from having to jump through the right hoops to be more accessibility-friendly!
Mostly I just wanted to make some nice open-license illustrations and the book is just kind of a bonus. I'm not trying to make a buck; everything you need is available on the website.
I've been teaching archivists for a long time and everybody has to start somewhere. I think this is a good starting place, especially for folks that need to know how to figure out what something even is, or the potential content or historical context/era. Especially for folks that don't work with video often, they can get easily freaked out/overwhelmed. I think it's going to be either required or recommended reading for at least three archives courses this fall that I know about.