I explore the interfaces with which we think & the future of personal computing: alexanderobenauer.com
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@cassidoo.coReposted by @alexanderobenauer.comI got Lovelace's Notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine from Buddy Bindery by @alexanderobenauer.com and it's BEAUTIFUL
@alexanderobenauer.comYes - he signed it at the last change-of-hands, from the original owner (Fred Hatfield) to the current.
@alexanderobenauer.comGot to see an Apple I on display before its auction later this month. This one, apparently, still runs!
@alexanderobenauer.comOur hand binding of Lovelace's Notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine is back in stock! We're also experimenting with free & flat-rate shipping for the US and International destinations, respectively. It will apply automatically to this book.
@alexanderobenauer.comIt should be in your hands soon! I hope you enjoy it.
@alexanderobenauer.comwe have a second print run in the works; will be available quite soon
@alexanderobenauer.comFirst prototype → Finished product
@alexanderobenauer.comKind of you - I've long been inspired by the creativity in your own work. Excited to get your copy to you, Ivy!
@alexanderobenauer.comNot to my knowledge; this was an idea designed specifically around the content of this book. (Ada hoped for such a construction, a quote from these Notes is in the second image!) The original was a standard codex - we got to review a copy at MIT Libraries' Distinctive Collections.
@alexanderobenauer.com@alexanderobenauer.comToo kind of you, Martin. Excited to get your copy to you!
@martin.kleppmann.comReposted by @alexanderobenauer.comOh this looks amazing. Instant impulse purchase
@alexanderobenauer.comWe're releasing the first printing of a handmade book with a unique construction that celebrates this storied and layered piece of computing history.
You can pick up your copy here!
And, as always, thank you for supporting our indie press & bindery. buddybindery.com/products/ada...
@alexanderobenauer.comA century before we would move from fixed-program computers to reprogrammable ones, Ada Lovelace realized that the Analytical Engine was capable of universal computation. Reading her Notes is thrilling for her awestruck articulation of these ideas. Available now; link in reply.
@alexanderobenauer.comWe will leave it open so folks can get their submissions in any time / any time zone. So: no pressure on a particular time!
@alexanderobenauer.comFriends! Our next release:
Ada Lovelace's Notes on the Analytical Engine, in a unique construction, with a new typesetting, and a facsimile of Note G's fold-out.
Available in September. Sign up for an email notification at the link.
More details below!
buddybindery.comAda Lovelace's Notes on Babbage's Analytical EngineThis book is a new typesetting and construction of Ada Lovelace’s extensive notes on, along with her translation of, L. F. Menabrea’s Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. ...
@alexanderobenauer.comSomething I haven't gotten to say in a while... new lab note today!
It's on a kind of user interface that pops up only occasionally: the extemporaneous UI that allows users to 'wave their wand' & get the interface they need through direct interaction.
Read on: alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/041/
alexanderobenauer.comLN 041: Extemporaneous UIsTear-off menus, quantized semantic zoom, and spatial computational canvases show us one approach to frictionless malleable interfaces.