here's your periodic reminder that if you're in a country with a weaker currency than the US (India, Brazil, etc), there's a discount to make the zines more affordable. You can see it in action here:
another thing we’ve been working on is accessibility! “How Git Works” comes with a full text transcript of the zine, plus image descriptions. Not all the zines have this yet (only The Pocket Guide to Debugging and How Git Works), but we’re slowly working on backfilling transcripts for the other zines.
Lee (our amazing Operations Manager) has been working on filling in transcripts for old zines for the last year, planning to have transcripts for all of them one day.
@b0rk That’s a nice touch ! I appreciate that you took time to help people who come from countries where 12$ is not insignificant money.
Purchased it ! (At full price, as I don’t qualify for a discount, even living in Brazil now 😅. Hopefully I can finally understand what I have been doing with git all these years.
answering a few support emails this morning from folks who bought How Git Works and feeling happy that
a) everyone who writes in needing help is extremely nice
b) most of the support questions are very quick to resolve (reset a download counter! fix a shipping address! refund an accidental order!)
if you've ordered a print copy of How Git Works: the original plan was to ship them by the end of July, but we're going to try to get them shipped a little sooner! Hoping to send them to the printer next week🤞
spending 8 months writing a 28-page zine (really 23 pages, if you don't include the covers and TOC!) always feels like a risk and it's a relief to see that it's working. appreciate you all.
I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000+ sales (!!!), I'm giving away 1000 PDF copies of How Git Works (honour system: only if $12 is a lot for you!)
I have a rule in general for zine launches that for every 1 zine we sell, we give away approximately 1 zine to someone who would have trouble affording it otherwise with code BUYONEGIVEONE
been doing this since 2018 and we've given away at least 34,000 zines. (I don't have the exact number right now)
I was going to post “the 1000 free copies of How Git Works for folks who can't afford it have all been claimed, I'll release more when we sell 2000 copies"
But then I went to check this morning and we've already sold 2000 copies of the zine??? So I guess we're giving away another 1000 copies now. https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/
so far "How Git Works" has sold more on its first day than any other zine except "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" and it's only been 3 hours https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/
appreciate you all, hope the zine helps with your git woes ❤
uh wow I just got back from the gym and now “How Git Works" has sold more on its first day than any other zine and it's still only been out for 6 hours?? https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/
apparently this git cheat sheet PDF doesn't render properly in Chrome? https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf (here is what the 4th column looks like in Chrome vs what it is actually supposed to look like)
so I guess that's my side quest for today instead of whatever else I wanted to be doing. PDFs are weird.
(edit: it was a relatively short side quest, I think it's fixed now)
I just counted and apparently I wrote 28,000 words of blog posts while writing this Git zine (but don't worry, the zine is only 28 very short pages, including the cover!)
@camertron@b0rk@nicole Understandable, but not really accurate. The same word (which means "go in"/" enter") could be used for situations where no authentication occurs.