Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@Molly @fiberarts This is very impressive.

I'm becoming quite a fan of @great78@mastodon.archive.org here. Part of my morning routine is now queuing up all of the records that were posted while I was asleep and listen to them with my morning coffee.

It would be really cool if there were some sort of podcast-like RSS feed I could subscribe to and automatically pull down the audio posted each day using my podcast application. Because of how these posts are linked, turning the Mastodon feed into an RSS feed doesn't solve it.

@rikkiends I found it took me a bit of time to build up who I am following. It's something I tend to like a garden based on boosts from people I already follow, and people who interact with me. I've also found searching for hashtags (and adding a hashtag search as a pinned column in the web interface) is a great way to find people, as hashtags are in much wider, appropriate use here to tag/find content on a topic.

@kissane Yes, this pendulum swings back and forth every couple decades. I wrote about it at length here:

https://puri.sm/posts/swinging-back-to-open-standards/

@shawnp0wers Were you using a tool like ShipStation to help assist the shipping side?

For some people, attention is a drug (and online, it can be profitable too). If an attention addict can't get positive attention they'll settle for negative attention. As they say, "There's no such thing as bad publicity."

Maybe I'm just a contrarian, but while everyone else stares angrily at the loud motorcycle driving down the street blaring horrible music, my instinct is to ignore them and starve them of the negative attention they are demanding.

I finished knitting my (adult-sized) hat this weekend. I ran out of yarn before the end so I starting reducing rows early. The result is that the hat sits high on my head. But I can take everything I learned from this hat and apply it to the next one to make one that fits me perfectly. #knitting #machineknitting

@mcneely In our source repo the project is called "smilodon".

@mcneely Yeah it is something we want to do, however it is complicated by the fact that we created our "smilodon" fork that has our customizations in it. We want to move to 4.x but we need to port our customizations first.

It turns out this wasn't really my fault! After trying again with the proper sized yarn I've determined the #knitting pattern is incorrect. Other hat patterns for this type of knitting machine call for about double the stitches per row and about double the rows.

I learned a lot through this painful process though. I understand enough about how this works that I'm going to try to adapt a different pattern that has proper measurements to the style of hat I want. #knitting #machineknitting

I have knitted a hat! ...for a baby?
So I suspected this might happen because the pattern called for thicker yarn than I chose to use, with fewer stitches/inch. I wanted to follow the instructions anyway just so I understood the process and outcome before I started making modifications. While I really like this wool for a hat I'd wear, I do think it's a bit too fine for my first knitting project. #knitting #machineknitting

@vancha Yes, I'm learning more about the complexity every day, but each bite I take makes the whole thing easier to digest. This machine in particular is complicated because it includes extra features such as a punch card reader to program patterns, and a knitleader which lets you draw your patterns on a large mylar sheet and have it feed along with your work. Plus an extra attachment for ribbing!

All are things I will worry about later. I need to learn how to crawl first.

The knitting has begun! This is attempt number eight or so at a simple wool hat. The previous attempts uncovered a problematic hook that meant undoing and unraveling all of my work and starting over until I discovered the source and fix for the problem. Learning a lot! #knitting #machineknitting

@aristeon I think it's gonna be a long, long time.

@gardiner_bryant Congratulations! That is a great accomplishment.

@ps1poet @accidentalciso At one place I set up a DR site that also functioned as pre-prod staging. Prod updates were staged and tested there and prod backups shipped there and restored to live DR systems monthly. In this way I had a DR site, prod staging, and backup testing all in one.

@shawnp0wers @hankgreen Missed opportunity in the second title. They should have added "Number Two Will Surprise You!"

@Crybaby If you have a resource like Craigslist where you are, I do strongly recommend looking there. Floor looms are like upright pianos in that used ones are either really expensive, or surprisingly cheap (or free!), because they take up space and people sometimes inherit them and just want to get rid of them. You often will also get a whole lot of accessories (shuttles, yarn, bobbins) with it.

@Kymberly Mohair will definitely be fine as weft for that. For warp I'm not sure. I could see it fraying and ultimately breaking as it gets pulled through the heddles and reed.

Even then, repairing broken a warp thread isn't so bad. I used to be scared of it until I had a project where I broke over a dozen warp threads before the end of the project (I allowed too much draw-in on a high-tension warp, a common cause). By the end it just became a mild annoyance.