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24 alternatives to The Unsplash Book
The world's first 'fully' open source book
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Unsplash Book launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Crowdsourced book featuring photos, essays, and art
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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Code▲76The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
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How to think about data
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Clever solutions to classic programming problems
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · lispwebtales.ppenev.com · its alternatives →
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Experiments and conversations about design in the browser
2015 · htmloutput.risd.gd · its alternatives →
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Advocating and supporting non-majority narratives
2014 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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The authoritative resource for learning Go
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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ofBook▲61Free book about openFrameworks, written by the community
2017 · openframeworks.cc · its alternatives →
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