The PDF really is designed like a magazine - not for screen reading (text way too small to start with). Which.. strikes me as odd, because I suspect most people won't be printing this out.
Is there any way to get a feed of just the magazines? I don't really have any use or interest in a feed of their books, but I'd love having the new magazine just show up in my RSS reader.
The coffee article is brilliant.
I'd take HTML over these big sparse PDFs
It amazes me that OS X handles PDF navigation in its reader so poorly (not that Acrobat Reader is any better). Sure you get crystal clear rendering. But paging, scrolling, yeck!! An HTML browser handles this much better.
Try Skim.
I've read both issues of this magazine and really enjoyed them. This is the first magazine since Make that has really impressed me.
I keep hoping for a magazine that will recapture the glory days of Dr Dobb's Journal. (Or Creative Computing, or Kilobaud, for that matter.) PragPub is nice, but, ultimately, meh.
What would it take for a publication to have that feel?
Did you read any of those publications? There was (for me, at least) a latent excitement underneath the surface, of the absolute coolness of the possibilities that seemed to be at our fingertips. Every issue was filled with articles that had somebody showing you how to do something you never even dreamed of.
Yeah, I read DDJ back in the day. And yes, I felt that sense of excitement. What I was wondering is, how did they do it? I think you're onto something with the two-fold "Here's something new to do, and here's how you can do it."