Code Cartoons

stopped reading when i saw the AI illustration. wholly unnecessary, and it feels insulting to be fed slop like this... if you really want a fun drawing get a human artist to do it. it doesn't need to be complicated, for example https://www.code-cartoons.com/ is mostly just stick figures and does an excellent job but you don't even need any of that, a mermaid diagram would have worked perfectly fine too. instead you chose to use a technology that is known to be harmful

I believe Lin Clark is the artist, she has a whole series called "Code Cartoons" where she explains various (usually web related) technical systems like WebRender in similarly excellent style. [0] https://code-cartoons.com/

This trend of using illustration to explain complex topics is really wonderful. I know that people may criticize it as childish, but I find it helpful and enlightening. The illustrations that I've found most amazing and well done are created by people like: Lin Clark (https://code-cartoons.com/) Julia Evans (http://jvns.ca/zines/) Linda Liukas (http://www.helloruby.com/) Amy Wibowo (https://shop.bubblesort.io/) You may notice a trend with the gender of the authors above. I personally believe that women have a better sense for simplifying complex ideas, and greater empathy and patience for teaching those ideas once they've been made simple.

I think she's using the LaTeX package for Edward Tufte's style: https://edwardtufte.github.io/ (If you like the design, you'd like Tufte's books.) Anyway, her paper is fun to read and one of the most beautiful papers I've read in terms of layout and design - I like the contrast between the hand-drawn illustrations and the abstract content. It reminds me of Lin Clark's Code Cartoons (https://code-cartoons.com/) .

The author, Lin Clark[0], is the person behind Code Cartoons[1]. She does absolutely amazing work. Unfortunately, there isn't really a single place to find everything she has done. She has done quite a few conference talks[2] as well. [0] https://twitter.com/linclark [1] https://code-cartoons.com/ [1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/code-cartoons/ [1] https://twitter.com/codecartoons [2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIHcC8epcPqhBrQ1dRmILg5e5okOVn…

I wonder how useful it might be to try sketching cartoon technical explanations of the type that Julia Evans or Lin Clark do. Then again, how long does it take to develop the manual skill to produce these? http://jvns.ca/zines/ https://code-cartoons.com/

Redux is appropriate for that, yes. You'll need to write the code to communicate with the server. So whatever fetch/update APIs you write there. Then interpret the response, and push the data into Redux. Your server is your main single-source of truth. But on the client, redux is that source of truth that your UX and application code reference. Lin Clark is amazing at explaining concepts in the React and Mozilla worlds. Here's her intro to Redux concepts: https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-intro-to-redux-3afb775501a6

She is great at breaking down complex concepts into digestible and easily understandable pieces. Her whole Code Cartoons series is just plain awesome (https://code-cartoons.com/@linclark) and her conference talks are some of my all-time favorites!

Absolutely. She's also responsible for a slew of other "Code Cartoons" writeups ( https://code-cartoons.com/ ) including Flux, Redux, Hot Reloading, and Relay, and she also wrote an incredibly good 6-part dive into WebAssembly ( https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-cartoon-intro-to-webassembly/ ).

There is a following guide to Redux and its differences to Flux at the end of the article[0]. Great explanation! [0] https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-intro-to-redux-3afb775501a6#.vj6gs…

this is a relatively terrible explanation of redux when compared to this: https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-intro-to-redux-3afb775501a6

Redux is not an implementation of Flux. These two blog posts explain the main differences: https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-guide-to-flux-6157355ab207 https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-intro-to-redux-3afb775501a6

The Code Cartoon guide to Redux isn't a tutorial, but it may be useful for understanding the Redux architecture that underpins React. https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-guide-to-flux-6157355ab207#.y0fq06…