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Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies

2021, Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox

Aesthetic Programming asks “how power differentials are implicit in code in terms of binary logic, hierarchies, naming of the...

GitLab

Hosting for Git repositories which can be turned into static sites for monograph publications. Able to include live code snippets which can be run...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Pelican

Pelican is a static site generator written in Python that requires no database or server-side logic. It allows the user to make a site by writing...

paged.js

Paged.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create PDF output from any HTML content. This means...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make...

Translating

Translating is inherently experimental because it requires the approximation of meaning through trial and error. Translating experiments have...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (Ciston & Marino fork)

2021, Sarah Ciston and Mark C. Marino

A fork of Soon & Cox's Aesthetic Programming with an additional chapter 8.5 and additional features throughout.

GitLab

Hosting for Git repositories which can be turned into static sites for monograph publications. Able to include live code snippets which can be run...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make...

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cover for Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (Traditional Chinese fork)

Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (Traditional Chinese fork)

2022, Winnie Soon, Geoff Cox, Tzu Tung Lee, Ren Yu, and Shih-yu Hsu

A fork of Soon & Cox's Aesthetic Programming translating the whole text into Traditional Chinese

GitLab

Hosting for Git repositories which can be turned into static sites for monograph publications. Able to include live code snippets which can be run...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make...

Translating

Translating is inherently experimental because it requires the approximation of meaning through trial and error. Translating experiments have...

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Basic Internet Security

2011, FLOSS Manuals

A collaboratively-produced book written in a Book Sprint by members of FLOSS Manuals, an open and voluntary organisation of approx. 3000...

Booktype

Free and open source software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books as PDF, ePub, mobi, and HTML.

(No longer maintained)

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make...

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cover for Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}

Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}

2015, Jessica Pressman, Mark C. Marino, and Jeremy Douglass

Reading Project had an online companion to the print book built in ACLS Workbench for cloning, forking, and building upon the original text.

ACLS Workbench

A fork of Scalar that promoted scholarly collaboration by allowing scholars to "create, join, or clone online arguments enhanced with multimedia content".

(No longer maintained)

Scalar

Enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with text in a variety of ways with minimal technical expertise required....

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make...

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The CryptoParty Handbook

2013, CryptoParty

A handbook of computer and internet security and a practical guide for CryptoParties. Created as a GitHub repository by forking two existing...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make...

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The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science

2019, The Turing Way Community

The Turing Way is an open source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science. Its goal is to...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Netlify

Publish incredibly high performance websites and applications right from GitHub. The Netlify platform connects your repositories to an all-in-one...

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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