Things I wish I’d known about CSS

Re:Things I wish I’d known about CSS by bbx on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:26PM (#23872257)

I've been earning a bit on a regular basis since I published it 1 year and a half ago. Not enough for replacing a salary, but enough as side pocket money. I'm lucky to have a decent following, so I didn't have to market it a lot. I'm currently writing a second one which is longer and more advanced, so hopefully it will earn me a bit more.

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Re:Things I wish I’d known about CSS by jventura on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:46PM (#23872497)

Thanks for the reply! Do you have any practical tips you may want to share? Maybe how did you grow your audience, how you wrote your book (technologies, etc.)?

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Re:Things I wish I’d known about CSS by bbx on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:06PM (#23872774)

Well I grew my audience on Twitter by building open source projects. [1] I didn't really plan or aim for anything. It mostly happened.

As for technologies, I just wrote the book in markdown using Sublime Text. Then I used a markdown-to-pdf library from GitHub to generate my ebook, and voilà. Nothing fancy really.

[1]: https://twitter.com/jgthms

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