When you create zines, do you also post their contents into an online form? Do your zines have QR codes linking to the online content, or to PDFs so that folks can print out their own copies of the zine? Or do you view your zines more as a physical-only thing, like printed art? Would you be opposed to having online copies of them?
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When you create zines, is your intention to create a single zine as an art piece, or do you intend to create multiple copies for distribution? (And how many? Dozens? Hundreds?)
Essentially, why do you make zines and who do you make them for?
From his speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" given in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852
> But the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, and the shield of American slave-hunters. Many of its most eloquent Divines, who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible to the whole slave system. They have taught that man may, properly, be a slave; that the relation of master and slave is ordained of God; that to send back an escaped bondman to his master is clearly the duty of all the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and this horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity. [...]
> I take this law to be one of the grossest infringements of Christian Liberty, and, if the churches and ministers of our country were not stupidly blind, or most wickedly indifferent, they, too, would so regard it.
>At the very moment that they are thanking God for the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, and for the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, they are utterly silent in respect to a law which robs religion of its chief significance, and makes it utterly worthless to a world lying in wickedness. [...]
> The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretense, and your Christianity as a lie.
Pay at least $36 for 15 ebooks from No Starch Press benefiting the PSF: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/python-good-stuff-no-starch-books
Hello, I'm Al Sweigart, author of a few books in the bundle. Here's some info about them:
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - I wrote this to be a programming book for office workers who wanted to escape Excel. It's a book for complete beginners with no coding experience, or for folks who want to skip to Part 2 and learn about several useful packages in the Python ecosystem for web scraping, graph generation, image manipulation, text-to-speech, OCR, regex, sending mobile notifications, and more. Automate is now in it's third edition.
Cracking Codes with Python - This was the third book I wrote (and self-published), and then No Starch published a new edition under a new title. (It was previously called Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python.) I had found several "ciphers and code breaking" books that discussed ciphers (The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh is great) but I didn't find any books on writing code to do the code breaking. I wanted Python programs you could literally run on ciphertext that would actually work. Writing this book was a lot of fun. It's also aimed at completely new programmers, using encryption and code breaking programs as the example programming projects.
The Big Book of Small Python Projects - As a kid I loved books like BASIC Computer Games that just listed the source code for actual programs you could run. I learned way more from having these small examples, so I wanted an updated version of this. (Admittedly, a lot of those BASIC games were buggy or just not fun.) There are 81 programs that use text-based user interfaces (TUI), not out of old-school nostalgia but because it's really helpful to learners to have the program source code and program output be the same medium: text. Like, you can look at the text output and find the print() call that caused it. It makes coding less abstract.
(Note that my books are released under a Creative Commons license and can be found online, but these ebooks have much nicer formatting than the HTML pages on my website.)
No Starch Press is my publisher, but I genuinely do love their books. The ones in this bundle that are on my to-read list that I'm especially excited about:
Practical Deep Learning: 2nd Edition - I've been wanting to read this since the first edition, especially now that I'm diving into LLMs more. This book doesn't shy away from technical details but it's not a textbook: there's actual practical information here.
Make Python Talk - I've already read this and used some of it as the basis for a PyCon talk on text-to-speech and speech recognition. This is stuff that was really unreliable twenty years ago, but these days it's so easy to add it to your Python scripts with just a few lines of code.
Computer Science from Scratch - One of my biggest gripes with CS education is that they often talk about concepts in some abstract way on a whiteboard or in Powerpoint slides, and they don't just give you code you can play with. I'm really interested in diving into this one.
Python for Excel Users - My Automate book touches on using Python and spreadsheets, but I'm glad there's an entire book on the topic now.
But of course, Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes is a great book for beginners who want to learn to code. (It consistently beats Automate the Boring Stuff on Amazon.) This is a great collection of ebooks.
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https://sethmlarson.dev/library-version-specifiers-not-for-vulnerabilities
A blog post from Seth Larson, the Security-in-Residence Developer for the Python Software Foundation.