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24 alternatives to I wrote a free book on mastering OpenSCAD
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I wrote a free book on mastering OpenSCAD launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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FreeCAD 1.1▲218Extremely powerful, completely free 3D CAD modeling
Mar 2026 · wiki.freecad.org · its alternatives →
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I am excited to announce the launch of my e-book on Graphics/WebGPU programming! This project has consumed much of my spare time, during which I developed various tools to facilitate the publishing process, including a code playground and a static site generator that can reference sample codes. However, I'm feeling burnt out and ready to call it finished, even though it may not feel completely done. Avoiding another abandoned side project has been my primary motivation in reaching this point.
2024 · shi-yan.github.io · its alternatives →
- 3IM
Hello. This year I dived into UI/UX area and at the same time I work as a web developer. I sincerely love making good UI. But at my full time job it's not always possible due to different reasons =\ So I've been posting random UI/UX staff on Twitter, then I made a free book that had 50 tips (posted it here as well). I decided to finish this year by collecting everything I learned and here it is: https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips. This time it's a paid one. But, you can check ~20 pages of it, just go to…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I just wanted to share that after five months of intense work and countless caffeine-fueled writing sessions, "Master Software Architecture: A Pragmatic Guide" is now available. Writing this book was a crazy time. I entirely focused on it, and it took exactly 753 hours of writing, editing, and image editing & resizing(!) until the premiere. Yes, the last one (images) was a killer. If you ever think about writing a book, reserve a lot of time for it unless someone else does it for you. As a result, I am handing you the nearly 400-page book. It is a guide that will help you connect all…
2024 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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Fake it Make it▲168A free eBook about UX design and rapid app prototyping
2015 · keynotopia.com · its alternatives →
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Free eBook for learning to code animations
2016 · get.oreilly.com · its alternatives →
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A book about designing animations for iOS
2014 · designthencode.com · its alternatives →
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A tiny book on how to draw at work
2016 · 5264002956444.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam (https://adam.new/). We’re building an AI co-pilot for mechanical CAD software. As part of our broader research, we built a browser-based Text-to-CAD app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182206) and are now open sourcing it. This is a React SPA with a Supabase backend. What it does: * Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references * Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An ebook with lots of tips and techniques on how to debug CSS the right way with easy and studied methods.
2020 · debuggingcss.com · its alternatives →
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Free ebook for game and animation development
2016 · joshondesign.com · its alternatives →
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Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
2016 · nostarch.com · its alternatives →
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Free ebook about the best practices in UX design
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
- 17IW
2019 · productizemarketing.co · its alternatives →
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Essential Skills and Concepts For The Self-taught Programmer
2016 · bigmachine.io · its alternatives →
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Free book about building MVPs fast.
2015 · mattkremer.com · its alternatives →
- 20MB
2020 · randallkanna.com · its alternatives →
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Lessons From Teaching Myself Web Development
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A tutorial introduction to computer development environments
2017 · learnenough.com · its alternatives →
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Still incomplete, but WIP!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 24IW
2017 · mvp.kablamo.org · its alternatives →
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