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No, I created Code Cartoons in my spare time. After I worked at Mozilla for a while, I pitched the idea of me making Code Cartoons explaining the things we were developing in Emerging Technologies. My (current) boss was super into the idea.

I talked more about this on a recently recorded Hanselminutes podcast. It should come out soon.

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I loved your crash course in memory management. It had a real Randall Munroe vibe to it. Please keep up the good work.

That's a great idea, blog posts are usually too dry and we try to spice them up with photos and related media, but they're usually only tangentially related. Having the ability to draw something specific to the post really makes it more enjoyable to read.

your cartoon explanations are wonderful :)

By the way, what program are you using to make your art?

Thank you :) I use Photoshop on a Wacom Cintiq.

Nice!

Did you also do the React Fiber cartoons?

Yes, that was me :) I've created a lot of cartoons around things in the React ecosystem. I've also done cartoons on WebAssembly and SharedArrayBuffer/Atomics.

Cool. I had the feeling they looked similar, but I didn't think someone who does this whole low-level stuff AND works for Mozilla would also like React, which got much hate from non-FB employees lately :D

The one on WebAssembly was also very informative, thanks!

I knew it!

This is kind of inspiring, I tend to doodle bits down on paper, and putting diagrams like this into posts seems like a great idea.

Which tools do you use to make the drawings? Just a tablet?

What font did you use for this? To me it looked like Comic Sans, but I guess the reaction would be different if it was the case...

I created my own font based on my handwriting. It's called codecartoons. I also have a more Marker Felt-ish one called Clarker Felt.

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