New Integrated by Design FreeBSD Book
Key takeaways
- Today, on UNESCO's World Book Day, Integrated by Design goes on sale.
- Then the last 72 hours, dedicated entirely to problems one does not anticipate.
- The final proof came back with a rather small complaint: the lower counter on the number 8 had closed.
Today, on UNESCO's World Book Day, Integrated by Design goes on sale. 371 pages on Free BSD, from philosophy to practice, with a subtitle one has had rather a lot of time to consider ironically over the last 72 hours: Why the Best Systems Are the Ones You Don't Notice.
Five months of writing. Three weeks of final proofs. Then the last 72 hours, dedicated entirely to problems one does not anticipate. In the interest of transparency, and in the hope that it spares somebody else a week of the same, here are the four of them.
The final proof came back with a rather small complaint: the lower counter on the number 8 had closed. Not all eights. Just the 8. JetBrains Mono, sixteen styles, one un-closed path at the foot of the numeral. At screen resolution and at every printer one had checked it on, perfectly fine. At full size on matte paper from Amazon's printers, the counter quietly filled in, and the 8 acquired the silhouette of a 0 with ambition.