I have a book coming out today! It’s not about AI, world politics, moral philosophy, or any other sort of earth-shattering topic. No, it’s a comic book where Victorian dinosaurs teach you how computer hardware works. It's for ages 9 to 99 or so, and is published by Macmillan!

The illustrator is a living saint named Jerel Dye. I know he’s a living saint because he put up with a script asking him to draw insane things like NOT gates made out of janky air pressure switches instead of electronics, and he even made the pictures beautiful.

The book features a host of characters, many of whom are either clueless, irritable, or sociopathic. Some are all at once!

There are visits with a number of the greats from the history of computing, one of whom rides a unicycle up the back of another dinosaur while juggling fire torches! (You’ll have to buy the book to see that!)

There are bizarrely dangerous and expensive pieces of computer equipment that no sane person would build!

And there's also an incredibly sweet introduction that Andrew “bunnie” Huang wrote, for which I'm eternally grateful.