It was often brought up in conversations with universities and their libraries - having them made things more convenient. The books were selling for a year or so without ISBNs, no problems either way!
Things like this are why I purchased some ISBNs and self-publish/distribute.
The books (e.g.:Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks[1] and Practical Evolutionary Algorithms[2]) are doing well, and whilst I'm likely "leaving money on the table", I'm happy with how it's going.
My daughter wanted an app like this that would help her with sheet music, so that was enough motivation!
I was tinkering with Unity at the time, so I thought I’d use it to make future releases on other platforms a little easier.
I’ve tested it on a few iPhones, iPads, and a MacBook Air (running the iPad app). It’s worked nicely on those. I don’t recommend using the AirPod microphone as I noticed some poor recognition on the lower notes!
I used to write long and technical blog posts. I think it's unlikely someone will go out there way to give you negative feedback, i.e. not constructive.
My motivation came from my younger days where everyone (including myself) had their own little corner of the Internet, made with things like AngelFire and GeoCities. I missed that.
Nowadays, I prefer to make short posts, e.g. [1, 2, 3]. Of course, before I started, I had to write my own static-site generator... It's been years since I've ran my Patreon and I don't post on YouTube like I used to, so there's little to no engagement - which is OK with me.
> Could you elaborate on why you switched away from it?
I started using KaTeX sometime after 2015 because it promised to be fast (the fastest! [1]). I had to change the representation of a bunch of expressions because KaTeX didn't support some environments, whilst MathJax did. It was a trade-off I was willing to accept at the time.
Many years later, I started writing a personal static-site generator. I wanted comparatively lightweight pages, so rendering server-side was an option. I re-evaluated MathJax vs KaTeX again and this time I leaned towards MathJax, as speed was no longer an issue for me. It looks like KaTeX has broader support now [2].
> The major change is building the Jupyter Notebook 7 interface with JupyterLab components so that the two applications share a common codebase and extension system.
This is interesting! Looking forward to testing the purple theme I use [1]. I wonder if extension developers will need to maintain three sets of instructions now? JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook >= 7, and Jupyter Notebook < 7
I used to write about evolutionary computation, data science, and other tech bits. I'm on my sabbatical right now and mostly writing pieces with no real common theme. I recently wrote my own static site generator - that held me up a little!
I’ve just relaunched https://shahinrostami.com after spending a little too long writing the static site generator that now generates it. That, and https://datacrayon.com, have been the catalyst for several opportunities that have come my way.