January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 37m
English

HERE’S WHAT GETS ME EXCITED ABOUT making: it lets you build stuff the way we build software. Historically, there have been two ways to make stuff. You could be an artisan and decide how you’d work, and your stuff would be expensive, though it was pleasant to make and was often beautiful. Or you could go to a factory and be part of a process that predetermined precisely how you’d work, down to the finest movement; your stuff would be cheap, and though it was sometimes beautiful, it was often horrible, and it was never nice to make.
Then along came software: suddenly, you ...