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raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: How I wrote a technical book in under 200 hours

Thank you! Yes I'm definitely planning on writing a post-mortem with details about sales figures in a few months.

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

I don’t have an example that specifically uses cmake, though similar principles apply but you’d use the emcmake utility. That said, thanks for the feedback! I’ve added that to my list of things to add to the book.

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Thank you jamestimmins, that’s also my understanding of Show HN

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Thanks pjmlp!

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Haha, I can confirm Brendan is not the author. Just curious though, where else have you seen this book mentioned?

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Thank you!

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Thank you so much for the kind words!

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Thank you for the tips! I'll be writing an article in coming weeks about my experience writing this book. This is the second book I self-publish, and unlike the first one, I actually tracked how much time I spent on each category of tasks (writing, editing, marketing, head scratching, etc), so the article will also include that. Stay tuned!

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Thanks! Yes the book focuses on C/C++, but you don't need very much C/C++ knowledge to follow along in the book.

Most of the time, we treat C/C++ libraries as black boxes that we compile to WASM, though in some cases like Pacman, we do have to modify the original code, but you should be able to infer what we're doing from the context and the text.

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Thanks! I like to self-publish mostly because I can craft the book in my own way and move faster. I also enjoy being able to touch all aspects of the book, including the design and marketing.

This is actually my second self-published book (first one was about wrangling data on the command line with bash), so it does feel natural to self-publish at this point!

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Hi amelius, here's an example app that uses WebAssembly: http://jqkungfu.com (compiled jq to WebAssembly!)

Here's the sample section from the book that covers exactly how that app was built: http://www.levelupwasm.com/sample-jq.pdf (though keep in mind that it's from Chapter 7 and it builds on previous chapters)

Also you'll find the table of contents at http://www.levelupwasm.com/toc.pdf

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Yes, I felt the exact same way about those configs when I was learning WebAssembly (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Thanks for the tip! Luckily I don’t process payments myself but use Gumroad to do that, so payments are safe, but I’ll get an https certificate for the landing page.

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Wow, thank you so much!

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Nice, I'll check it out! It's really exciting to hear of others using WebAssembly for genomics.

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

haha, nope, no idea who d2xdy2 is but I highly appreciate them for buying the book though! :D

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

I recently added a book sample (http://www.levelupwasm.com/sample-jq.pdf) and a table of contents (http://www.levelupwasm.com/toc.pdf), hope that helps.

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

That's so cool, thanks for sharing! Do you know where I can find more info about how it was built/which portion of the app uses WebAssembly?

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Yes! Chapter 8 talks about graphics; the Pacman example shows how to port a C++/SDL2 Pacman clone to WebAssembly and OpenGL (with Emscripten). That said, the focus of that chapter is porting games like that, but it doesn't go into writing OpenGL directly.

raboukhalil | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Thanks, looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it!