Now I am personally offended :) I kid, but I am a big fan of well formatted PDF documents. What problems would you say that trouble you in mobile? I understand the 'absolute' viewport is tiresome, but I tend to prefer the consistency at times.
Beej is an incredible author. His networking guide is not only succinct and informative, it's also very funny. He's got a great writing style.
There was a thread a month or two back showing off some more of his guides, including this one. Going to download some of these for a long flight coming up. Huge thank you to Beej for the incredibly high quality content at no cost. There's also a paperback of at least the network programming guide available to support (great gift to give to a junior engineer).
Was absolutely crazy to me to learn he was from Bend. I grew up in Bend, and in the early 2000s when I was in HS, his guides were super important to me. It wasn't till a couple years ago that I learned he was from Bend!
I learned about beej when I started the Vortex wargame on OverTheWire (https://overthewire.org/wargames/vortex/vortex0.html). I emailed him about an error in the part about loops, and he told me he'd fix it, but never did. Only years later when I got nostalgic and went to reread that part of his guide, did I realize there had never been a bug, I'd simply misunderstood the code, and he had humored me.
Beej's guides are great. As for C, you also need the mandatory companion guide: A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213).
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[ 0.31 ms ] story [ 52.2 ms ] threadThere was a thread a month or two back showing off some more of his guides, including this one. Going to download some of these for a long flight coming up. Huge thank you to Beej for the incredibly high quality content at no cost. There's also a paperback of at least the network programming guide available to support (great gift to give to a junior engineer).
- Feb 2023, 284pts, 64 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946811>
- March 2023, 115pts, 37 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35338074>
- April 2021, 507pts, 172 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26911399>
- September 2017, 427pts, 79 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15198093>
Worth noting that there are changes on a regular basis: <https://github.com/beejjorgensen/bgc>
I'm such a huge beej fan.
https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c
That, “You” language spread all over the text to the point that I’ll almost take programming too personally!
The only missing overabundance in the text is that of memes and emojis in it’s style.
Is it oh-so-very “accessible?”
Is it a “very conversational” style?
Is it so-very “TLDR” over “RTFM?”
Is it a late-night talk show?
Is it the M&M’s of technical writing for distracted kids?