Happy Birthday to Git, and a signal boost
The Git version-control system was released 18 years ago today, so it's old enough to vote in the US. (The most recent version, 2.40.0, was released this year on my birthday. But I digress.)
In related news, I'd like to join elf and ysabetwordsmith in boosting the signal for The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development by Essential Randomness, on Kickstarter.
The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development is a series of zines/books featuring anthropomorphized versions of programming languages and concepts (aka gijinka), each one engineered from the ground up to cater to transformational fandom's sensibilities and interests.
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elf summarizes
it as:
Problem: The corporate webosphere is all based on public feeds of identical-looking scrolling content. Fandom has mostly lost the habit of creating their own webspaces for purposes other than constant interaction. But most of the tutorials are horribly hostile to beginners, or to fandom purposes, or both.
Solution: Learn web development from hot anime guys in a dating sim. Well, not actually a dating sim. But it looks like a dating sim.
... and appropriately enough the first demo is about Git (personified as a hawt catboy). (My guess is that Git's persona was chosen so that they could personify GitHub as an octocat-boy.) I'm not in the target demographic, obviously, but I'm all for anything that promises to get fans and other outsiders hooked on web development and version control.