Connecting The Digital To Analog
summary
Argues that paper outperforms phones for many chores — water resistance, no charging, foldability and easy annotation — and shows concrete systems that make digital data physical: 1,000 letterpress notebooks produced and sold via Etsy and Kickstarter; a tiny business‑card calendar prototype; a travel‑guide boarding‑pass mock that prints weather, exchange rates and maps on demand; and a working HTML to PDF with PhantomJS pipeline using print‑specific CSS and easy deploy to Heroku.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 1:05Connecting the Digital to the Analog
- 7:03History about Paper
- 14:10The Paper Net
- 16:07Why Qr Codes Are Bad
- 20:10Pocket Mods
- 23:28Advantages to Mapping
- 24:29Animated Gifts
- 27:32Pdf Generation Engine
- 28:39Heroku Create
- 31:06Display Inline Block
- 32:42Six Column Layout
- 33:01Sexagesimal
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