Alexander Obenauer

This week's member update demos a user environment that brings to life many of the ideas from my lab notes over the years - starting with the most fundamental, and proceeding out from there. It's just the first look; more to come. I hope you enjoy. Link in reply.

A new member essay, and demo, coming shortly!

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! From missing characters to damaged reams, this is the tale of recreating Ada Lovelace's Notes. It's equally an investigation of old books and the work of making new ones. Link in reply.

A 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.

Friends! 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.com/products/ada...

Our friend Andy Milburn had the idea for this unique construction. Funnily enough, Lovelace wanted something similar herself. May printers inconvenience you no more, Ada.

Friends! 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.com/products/ada...

The book is a diptych with Lovelace’s translation of Menabrea’s 1843 Sketch of the Analytical Engine on the left, and her extensive Notes A – G on the right, held in place by bronze Chicago screws. Lovelace's writing is set in black, everything else in red.

Happy new ISBN day! Always a happy day when a project reaches this point.

Submissions are open until August 31! Answering some frequently asked questions: - Submissions should be complete, but do not have to be final drafts. - Submissions do not have to be about one particular topic. We're looking for expertise from many domains beyond CS. [...]

... Even from within the field, we're hoping for discussion across many topics. - Submissions can be bespoke typesets / layouts; they do not have to be plain text. - Contributors need no qualifications. Come as you are.

We have extended the submission deadline to Monday, August 31! We wanted to make sure folks have enough time to explore their wildest ideas. Take some time this summer to write a chapter submission for Augment!

Today, I'm excited to announce our next title! "Augment" is a forthcoming book featuring a collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.

When we started our small press, we set out to learn how to make great books - enduring in both content and construction - and we hoped we’d get the chance to bring others’ works to life within them.

Today, I'm excited to announce our next title! "Augment" is a forthcoming book featuring a collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.

We’re opening a call for submissions today: buddybindery.com/pages/augment We hope you’ll share it with those you think might write great essays for Augment, and even consider writing one yourself.

This Friday, I'm excited to share details on an upcoming title we're working on at Buddy Bindery & Press, plus how you can help us make it great. Stay tuned for more.