This looks interesting but I have no idea what it's talking about. I assume this is how non-techies feel when reading a programming article.
microflash•49m ago
Indeed. I’m also quite lost but it caught the eye of an acquaintance. Hopefully, we’ll have a discussion over tea about it.
To me, knitting seems to be such an intimate art where a person pours their skill and heart. When I wrap myself in the sweater that my grandmother knit for me in a city far away from home, I feel her presence and love in the patterns woven in the fabric, wondering what she’d have been thinking while knitting. “I was thinking about the latest mischief of our naughty goats and this boy frolicking along with them.” She’d answer whenever someone asked.
Programming and automating this takes away all that intimacy out of that art but I guess it is inevitable for the “engineering” minds. Maybe there’s a wonder to it just by exploring the possibilities, albeit through machines.
WillAdams•35m ago
The thing is, early knitting machines were advertised by showing them competing against "mighty fishermen of many years" since it was deemed a necessary activity for fishing communities in winter.
View it as an extension of Jaquard looms and the punch cards used for them being the precursors of modern computers.
c.f., the Native American representations of Intel chip designs:
This is a programming article, just not in your subfield.
If you have any programming background and some time to aquiantence yourself with the specific words and aspects of this kind of programming I'm sure it will make sense to you too :)
stavros•27m ago
It's mostly the knitting terms I don't know, not so much the engineering ones. Fairisle, Jacquard, etc.
mtVessel•22m ago
I applaud their restraint. Me, I would've been compelled to title it, "Kniterate Knotes".
stavros•1h ago
microflash•49m ago
To me, knitting seems to be such an intimate art where a person pours their skill and heart. When I wrap myself in the sweater that my grandmother knit for me in a city far away from home, I feel her presence and love in the patterns woven in the fabric, wondering what she’d have been thinking while knitting. “I was thinking about the latest mischief of our naughty goats and this boy frolicking along with them.” She’d answer whenever someone asked.
Programming and automating this takes away all that intimacy out of that art but I guess it is inevitable for the “engineering” minds. Maybe there’s a wonder to it just by exploring the possibilities, albeit through machines.
WillAdams•35m ago
View it as an extension of Jaquard looms and the punch cards used for them being the precursors of modern computers.
c.f., the Native American representations of Intel chip designs:
https://kottke.org/24/09/a-navajo-weaving-of-an-intel-pentiu...
kruffalon•30m ago
If you have any programming background and some time to aquiantence yourself with the specific words and aspects of this kind of programming I'm sure it will make sense to you too :)
stavros•27m ago