Good morning(?)! Today is our 100th issue so I thought I would do something special. Before anything else, I'd like to thank everybody that has supported the newsletter, either via Patreon, Paypal donations, or simply forwarding the newsletter to your co-workers. This is what keeps me going and why we got to the 100th issue in the first place. So, without further ado, today I'd like to announce a number of new projects that might interest you, and, more importantly, will give more value to our backers. Book: Quintessential Developer The first project is a book I have been planning for some years now and recently began working on. In a few words, it is a collection of works considered by the programming community as noteworthy. It could be anything from groundbreaking papers, articles everybody should read, important talks, phrases used in our day-jobs, and even humorous videos. Here is the table of contents at its current state: Obviously, this is a work in progress and some items will be removed and a LOT will be added as I continue working on it. There isn't much right now other than the title and links. Ideally different authors that are more familiar with the specific subject would write a summary ala the GPU Gems series of books, but for now I'm OK with writing the summaries myself. I've already contacted a few authors and some expressed interested. But nothing is set in stone. Web series: Unnamed The second project is one that I have been actively working on these past few weeks. It's a web series heavily inspired by Extra Credits but about programming. The aesthetics is something I'm the most uncertain of and will require some feedback. Here is a sneak peak of the episode intro in a storyboard fashion: Storyboard Test This is not the first time I've been involved in video editing. Zine: So you want to create your own programming language? This is an idea directly inspired by Julia Evans' collection of zines. From Wikipedia: a zine is a "small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via photocopier." This is currently in the idea-phase, but I have an artist and the topic in mind to go ahead. The first issue is going to be published before any of the other projects and, according to my estimates, will be sometime in the following month. Magazine: Human Readable Magazine The whole reason Morning Cup of Coding is even a thing: Human Readable Magazine. This is an ongoing project that will only get better as the newsletter grows. While there is not much to show, there are a few repositories containing code used for the newsletter that I am not very proud of but nonetheless very useful. Conference: Human Speakable Alright, now I'm just throwing ideas at the wall and see what sticks. I have a friend that has experience in organizing conferences and I thought I'd give it a go. Maybe. You tell me. So what's with all these projects? Starting today, backers will have access to all the material and behind the scenes of these projects as well as the ability to shape them through feedback. In addition, I will be sending out a backers-only bi-weekly update on the state of the projects. Finally, backers will get early access to everything, even if it's behind a paywall. Oh, before I forget, for those of you who have just joined us, I'm working on an index of the newsletter where you can jump to the different issues based on segments. Check it out here. Once again, thank you all for your support. Here's to another 100 issues! Programming language of the day: C#. What? You thought I would skip this because of the special issue? Oh I'm totally committed to this segment. "C# is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines. It was developed around 2000 by Microsoft within its .NET initiative and later approved as a standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270:2006). C# is one of the programming languages designed for the Common Language Infrastructure." -Wikipedia



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