Interesting, why did you go the route of publishing on notion vs a traditional e-book format?

Thanks for asking! A couple of reasons.

From my perspective: • I like writing in Notion. It feels like I'm getting more writing done than I do elsewhere. • It hits the sweet spot as it allows me to A) write & format code-focused content, B) link to other (sub)chapters, and C) create compelling guides thanks to the variety of "building blocks". • It's nicely designed and permits customization (blocks, callouts, colors, font families, etc) while sensibly constraining you so that you don't go "too far" with the design. • I can assign read-only permissions relatively easily (I wrote about how I automated it here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-published-a-notion-e...). • Last but not least, I studied Janel's journey on publishing a Notion resource (basically a dashboard) on Indiehackers: (https://www.indiehackers.com/product/newsletter-operating-sy...) and saw that it works! So I did my own thing.

From my readers' perspective: • Ppl usually don't read Elasticsearch guides on a kindle on a beach in Southern France. They do it on the computer while integrating / debugging something. So they pull up the online Notion workspace, search thru it, and (hopefully) gain some insights. • Since it's online, it can be updated / extended / typo-corrected at any time. • The handbook includes images that won't work on kindle and videos that don't really work in PDFs. • Last but not least, ppl can't really share my work online. Sure, they can do screenshots, save the page as html, copy the text etc, but it's not as straightforward as dumping a PDF on dropbox.

BTW I'm tracking my ebook "mini journey" on Indiehackers too, if you're into that sort of thing: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/the-elasticsearch-handb...

P.S.: I do plan to eventually move my handbook out of notion and create my own member-only workspace that'll look similar to Lee Robinson's blog (https://leerob.io/blog/monorepo-lerna-yarn-workspaces). But the emphasis is on eventually ;)

Well this was unfortunate. I have purchased the book, but it was not immediately obvious anywhere that by "book" you meant a third party website.

Is there anyway to get access without signing up to Notion?

If not, sadly I won't be reading it, but that's my problem not yours.

May I suggest adding a "What you will get" section where you clearly state that people won't be able to read without signing up to Notion?

Edit: I just saw that you have that listed under the "How does it work?" FAQ - My bad.

@rhamzeh yes, it's all in the FAQs. If you're not satisfied, I'll shoot you an email and we can resolve it.

I’m wondering if OBS Studio, an FOSS product, can be directly compared with this.

Run a meetup group. There are/were 2 guys who ran the Ruby on Rails meetup group in Houston, and were constantly being asked by companies who were trying to look for RoR devs to hire but would often just ask them to do short-term work. I think their abandoning the group now....but someone should snatch up the opportunity.

I originally had a meetup group and it being local really limited the opportunities. I then switched to building an online Facebook group and scaled that. All of what I do can be done remote so it didn't make sense to limit geographically.

If there is no requirement to be onsite, I'd steer clear of meetup. For the same effort you can grow something across the US/outside/etc

I'd really want to check out the series. The twitter paywall is the only blocker.

Author here. You can just read the book on GitHub[1], no tweetwall involved. It isn't as pretty as the HTML version, but it works well enough and alleviates your security concerns.

[1]: https://github.com/mjavascript/practical-es6

At least for me, security isn't the concern. The problem is that I have no idea what I'm recommending. Have you considered letting users read a bit before asking for the Tweet?

I've been a PonyFoo reader for a long time. You're obviously a talented guy. But I still want to get an idea of what you have produced before tweeting about it.

That said, I'm very much looking forward to "Mastering Modular JavaScript" and "Deploying Modern JavaScript Apps"! :) I'm sure you know better than most that the internet is full of unappreciative haters, but keep up the fantastic work. There are many of us who have benefited from your writing in amazing ways.

study your competition: https://leanpub.com/rails-on-docker

use a complex rails app, one that uses redis/sidekiq. how to handle logging when running multiple instances of the rails app.

dockerizing the CI pipeline using jenkins...etc.

Now you have to deliver on the "accounting for freelancers" course you said you were going to deliver last year

can you consider making the sample project in the book, more real-world like? Perhaps, have kubernetes manage the deploying of redis, and the sidekiq daemon.

i didn't really have any programming experience prior to enrolling in tea leaf academy. Upon completing the courses, Kevin told us that we would be an intermediate level rails developer, and that kind of stuck with me when it came to interviewing. I positioned myself as an intermediate dev, and received an offer. I highly recommend them.

good to hear, i thought this was an abandoned project, i reember following this over 2 years ago on HN

i bought a MBP a year ago, so i can learn rails on it. I've been a PC guy for the longest time. But rails development on a mac is just so convenient. Unfortunately at work, we're a PC shop. So do our development on a debian VM using virtualbox. It works fine. So if you have the money, go for the MBP. Other than that, I highly advise not to do rails development on Windows....use a linux a distro in a VM