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Wow! I was going to post this but here it is already! I wrote (with a lot of help) the article there. I also jotted down some notes on the process of writing it

Wow! I was going to post this but here it is already! I wrote (with a lot of help) the article there. I also jotted down some notes on the process of writing it with O'Reilly in case anybody's interested in that side of things: http://planspace.org/20160619-writing_with_oreilly/ http://planspace.org/20160619-writing_with_oreilly/

krisroadruck 10y ago
Great article! You did miss a GoT plug though "An Object has no name". Tisk! But seriously though thanks for the background post to go with. Cheers.
- ajschumacher 10y ago
  Thanks! May objects not bring you any unwanted gifts! :)
- bsg75 10y ago
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/an-object-has-no-name.html http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/an-object-has-no...
JPKab 10y ago
Good post man. Hope DC is treating you well these days.
- ajschumacher 10y ago
  Thank you! Things are going great in DC - I happen to be in NYC for ICML this week though, where things are also going pretty great! :)
tedmiston 10y ago
It was nice to hear a little behind the scenes. I'd be curious to hear any analytics about unique visitors, etc so far from the O'Reilly post if you can share.
- ajschumacher 10y ago
  I'm curious too! I don't know yet whether they'll pass that info to me, and then I don't know whether I would be able to pass on any further. I imagine at least some of the analytics are considered proprietary/competitive info. But we can see some public things like votes here, number of tweets, etc.
rspeer 10y ago
Just a CSS critique: could you add "monospace" to the end of your list of monospaced fonts? I have perfectly good monospaced fonts on this computer, but none of them are Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, or Lucida Console, so I end up with a default proportional serif font.
- weinzierl 10y ago
  This might seem like an innocent change but it really is another HTML/CSS browser hell hole. If I remember correctly it was Jeff Atwood or jzy who taught me this lesson at a time when Stackoverflow was just out of Beta: If the keyword monospace is somewhere in your font stack some browsers use 13px as default font size instead of the usual 16px. The workaround used to be to use both, serif and monospace, in your font stack. This used to work some time ago, I don't know if it still does with contemporary browsers.
  - ajschumacher 10y ago
    O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it seem better now?
- ajschumacher 10y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass along to the O'Reilly team and see if there's anything they can do.
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- ajschumacher 10y ago
  O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it look better for you now?

krisroadruck 10y ago

Great article! You did miss a GoT plug though "An Object has no name". Tisk! But seriously though thanks for the background post to go with. Cheers.

ajschumacher 10y ago
Thanks! May objects not bring you any unwanted gifts! :)
bsg75 10y ago
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/an-object-has-no-name.html http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/an-object-has-no...

JPKab 10y ago

Good post man. Hope DC is treating you well these days.

ajschumacher 10y ago
Thank you! Things are going great in DC - I happen to be in NYC for ICML this week though, where things are also going pretty great! :)

tedmiston 10y ago

It was nice to hear a little behind the scenes. I'd be curious to hear any analytics about unique visitors, etc so far from the O'Reilly post if you can share.

ajschumacher 10y ago
I'm curious too! I don't know yet whether they'll pass that info to me, and then I don't know whether I would be able to pass on any further. I imagine at least some of the analytics are considered proprietary/competitive info. But we can see some public things like votes here, number of tweets, etc.

rspeer 10y ago

Just a CSS critique: could you add "monospace" to the end of your list of monospaced fonts? I have perfectly good monospaced fonts on this computer, but none of them are Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, or Lucida Console, so I end up with a default proportional serif font.

weinzierl 10y ago
This might seem like an innocent change but it really is another HTML/CSS browser hell hole. If I remember correctly it was Jeff Atwood or jzy who taught me this lesson at a time when Stackoverflow was just out of Beta: If the keyword monospace is somewhere in your font stack some browsers use 13px as default font size instead of the usual 16px. The workaround used to be to use both, serif and monospace, in your font stack. This used to work some time ago, I don't know if it still does with contemporary browsers.
- ajschumacher 10y ago
  O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it seem better now?
ajschumacher 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass along to the O'Reilly team and see if there's anything they can do.
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ajschumacher 10y ago
O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it look better for you now?