Books
Debugging Essentials
Inspired by The Practical Developer’s Googling the Error Message book cover generated with O’RLY Covers, I thoght it would be funny to have something like that in the physical world. Taking further inspiration from O’RLY, I settled on a 4-book “Essential Debugging” set consisting of Googling the Error Message, Googling the Right Way, Changing Something and Seeing What Happens, and Changing Nothing and Trying Again. These 4 topics were determined from my own experience debugging code. The books feature relevant, tongue-in-cheek blurbs, accolades, and chapter titles, but the “content” of the book is entirely composed of Lorem Ipsum. A small run of the series was printed and distributed amongst various other grad students and staff.
The artwork on the covers and rest of the design is by myself. No generative A.I. was used in this project.
Summer 2024
Debugging Addenda
My time at Brookhaven National Lab involved testing of electronics and following documentation of varying levels of quality. This inspired two additions to the debugging series, Excuses for Not Writing Documentation and Hardware Debugging. While the latter is similar in form to “Essential Debugging”, Excuses is a larger text filled entirely with blank pages.
The artwork on the covers and rest of the design is by myself. No generative A.I. was used in this project.
Fall 2024
A Field Guide to Wikipedia
In 2022, my sister’s then-boyfriend, now-husband and I bonded over a wordle-style game called Redactle. The original game has gone offline, but the basic gist of it and its many clones is trying to guess a Wikipedia article that has had most of the words censored. To give the players some chance at success, the game picks from a pool of Wikipedia’s “vital articles” (in this case level 4), a collection of 10,000 of Wikipedia’s “most important” articles. This book is an organized collection of those article titles, presenting a field guide to what topics Wikipedia calls important. A small quantity was printed to achieve economies of scale, but I’m not certain where they all ended up.
Fall 2022
How do I get one?
PDFs of these books are available on request. They’re formatted for a specific printing service’s layout, but I don’t want to give that printer free advertising since they did a “just okay” job.