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der.hans @[email protected] · 2026-01-04 · 01:15 UTC

@futurebird a few years ago @mlemweb led an interview of authors of a python library for cross stitch patterns on the #fossandcrafts podcast

Perhaps they have a method for printing out the patterns like you want

Also, perhaps the #FreeSoftWear community has suggestions

I think there's a #HackAndCraft call going on right now

#fossandcrafts #freesoftwear #hackandcraft

Elena ``of Valhalla'' @[email protected] · 2023-04-24 · 17:23 UTC

@scottsews as somebody who sews most of her clothing and is not going back to buying any time soon.

The whole “people bought patterns and fabric and made their own clothes” has a lot of idealized past and propaganda to it, too.

People who could afford it have been buying clothing made by something else (and exploiting the ones actually working on it) for a very long time, but the act of making one's own clothing has been a form of virtue signalling at least since the times of Augustus' wife Livia (spoiler: she probably “made” the family clothing by overseeing a full vertically integrated workshop of slaves).

There was an episode of #FossAndCrafts on the topic: fossandcrafts.org/episodes/3-t…

#fossandcrafts

(((o))) Acoustic Mirror @[email protected] · 2022-07-03 · 15:37 UTC

Speaking of @jao, a topic that came up last night at @fossandcrafts's Scheme Workshop was Gerald Sussman's comments on why MIT stopped teaching #SICP as an introductory course in 2009. Here's a longer blog post by @jao from #ILC09, where Sussman made these comments, with input from no other than Dan Weinreb (rest in power), and links to other articles on the subject (like Andy Wingo's report from the event).

/cc @bsmall2 @cwebber

#Scheme #SICP #MIT #FOSSandCrafts

https://jao.io/blog/2009-03-29-sussmaniana.html

#fossandcrafts #mit #scheme #ilc09 #sicp