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Comment by smusamashah | Hacker News Reader

Wow this is such a beautiful read. Has anything like this been done before for some other topic?

P.S. This sentence is hard to grasp for me "This Unawareness helps Decouple systems that produce events from otters that read events." https://www.gentlydownthe.stream/#/20

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I tried it with a bunch of 101 comsc topics in one story - boundary conditions, recursion, high vs low level languages, undefined behaviour, memory protection https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/41545/manifest-logic/chapt...

More generally there's this list of similar fiction https://fiftysevendegreesofrad.github.io/hard-comp-fi-fictio...

The Reinforcement Learning algo A2C was also illustrated in a similar way:

https://medium.com/hackernoon/intuitive-rl-intro-to-advantag...

Kubernetes https://www.cncf.io/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-to-kuber...

I don't have a link but the NSA has a coloring book about cryptography that's in the public domain, since it was created by the government with tax dollars and has no copyright notice. I actually have a copy I've been meaning to scan, I'm just afraid of ending up on a list if I do. :)

The selinux coloring book is another great example: https://people.redhat.com/duffy/selinux/selinux-coloring-boo...

The penguin in this one is nightmare fuel

I'm glad people are enjoying this. I wrote a story two years ago about Queues / Kinesis - and am in the process of getting it illustrated. I doubt it'll make any money, but it's good to know that people enjoy this type of thing!

Not quite the same, but "Life on the Infinite Farm" https://www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/farm.pdf

https://www.cncf.io/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-to-kuber... is a famous example.

Does Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby count?

https://poignant.guide/

> "This Unawareness helps Decouple systems that produce events from otters that read events."

It simply means that the producer doesn't need to maintain a list of listeners. It just throws the event into the stream, and assumes that anyone who wants to read it will be able to do so.

RSS vs an email list, I guess.

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