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I'm thinking about weaving again.

2022-12-07

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I feel funny about yesterday, I think because I spent a fair bit of time not at my desk? It's okay.

Pompom - Try to make a windows build

I have no way at the moment to test this, so not a great dev cycle, but hopefully my brother will try it at some point this week and I'll get feedback. I imagine it might just not work, or worse, look ugly.

Forge.horse - Generate instagram txt Return.horse - make comic

I have added the instagram text to forge.horse in possible the most unnappealing way possible.

I already have ideas on what to change, and how. But one step at a time, the most important part is making it usable. The instagram text is what I copy and past into the 'accesibility' inputs, it's the image description for each rendered panel.

a screenshot of my forge.horse program. There's a gridded calendar, a text box with the comic info in it, and a rendered comic with the info in text below it

I understand why a lot of programs look how they look - developers just ship things into where ever there's space and if it's good enough then it's good enough. The next step is to plan the couple of changes I want to make, then build it as an application (eg stop using dev mode)

Whiteboard/kinopio - update project lists, add more

I typed this stuff up, not much to say here

bread

I started another sourdough loaf, this time 20% wholemeal. It's a wetter dough, a different process. I'm hoping it tastes a bit better than the plain white one. I've just finished the final shape and I'm letting it rise beside an oven element on low, because the apartment's a little colder than it was yesterday. I'll score it four or 5 ways with small, kind of like a star.

Small - write guidelines for small projects

I started writing these last night in a notebook:

Things need to be small, otherwise

We don't need big things. Big things are made from small things. Small things done well.

These remind me of what I read in The Art of Unix Programming, summarised in Small, Sharp Tools on Brandur.org.

  1. Rule of Modularity: Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces.
  2. Rule of Composition: Design programs to be connected to other programs.
  3. Rule of Parsimony: Write a big program only when it is clear by demonstration that nothing else will do.

Of course in this case, for my purposes, a big project will never do. Big projects are for another time and place. Small things are easier to fix, maintain, and limit the potential for scope creep.

Called Grandma

I had a good chat to Grandma. We talked about life, about being a grandson, about adventure and creativity. She has COVID, but I gathered she wasn't symptomatic. The main issue was she couldn't leave her part of the resting home to see her partner, who's in the other section. She also mentioned reading a book and how it gave her a lot to think about, and how that was important now because she couldn't garden, walk, or pursue any of the other hobbies she used to do. I think she's the only old person I know, and I wonder if I should try to know more? When I went to church there were old people all over, but I don't want to go to church.

what else

I'm thinking about weaving again.
Textile, A Diagonal Abstraction: Glass Bead in conversation with T’ai Smith

The Soul of Time
by Trumbull Stickney

  1. TIME'S a circumference
  2. Whereof the segment of our station seems
  3. A long straight line from nothing into naught.
  4. Therefore we say " progress, " " infinity " —
  5. Dull words whose object
  6. Hangs in the air of error and delights
  7. Our boyish minds ahunt for butterflies.
  8. For aspiration studies not the sky
  9. But looks for stars; the victories of faith
  10. Are soldiered none the less with certainties,
  11. And all the multitudinous armies decked
  12. With banners blown ahead and flute before
  13. March not to the desert or th' Elysian fields,
  14. But in the track of some discovery,
  15. The grip and cognizance of something true,
  16. Which won resolves a better distribution
  17. Between the dreaming mind and real truth.
  1. I cannot understand you.
  1. 'T is because
  2. You lean over my meaning's edge and feel
  3. A dizziness of the things I have not said.

listening to

TDJ - All I Want For Christmas Is An Acoustic Guitar (1 - 2 - 3 - 4)

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