Making software is a reference manual for people who design and build software being written by Dan Hollick.

The book contains a great deal of “have you ever wondered” answered with easy to understand illustrations.

This book won’t teach you how to actually make software – it’s not a tutorial or a guide but rather something more interesting than that. It’s a manual that explains how the things you use everyday actually work.

As everything around us has become more complicated our understanding of technology has diminished. It used to be that we needed to understand our tools deeply but today we understand them in a shallow, abstracted way.

You don’t need to be technical to read this – there are a lot of pictures and diagrams to do the heavy lifting. You just need to be curious.

Plans are to start with an ebook later this year.

See more in the page here.