Gregory's Serverjust gonna say it, if developer tool companies actually galaxy brained they could be learning a lot from places they will absolutely never learn from, like sewing communities
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it's been a long time since my most-reviled single social media post (a joke I made about makeup and skincare skills translating to causal inference and data science!!!) I guess I'm itching for a new beat-down moment lmao @grimalkina do it :) (not because of the beatdown but because I would like to read it)   @grimalkina @venite this is a bit of a tangent so I don't know if it'll bear fruit, but this reminds me of something Beau of the Fifth Column said about the US military superpower is not just/primarily expensive equipment, it's pedagogy the the ability to teach complex skills to complete beginners reliably and repeatably. Maybe McDonald's has a similar experience. This was in context of Navy Seals organizing villagers, 6 sailors, no matter how good, can only do so much alone. in WWI knitting has been used for espionage: It's binary and therefore like the morse alphabet and ideal for coding. @eibart @grimalkina yeah it’s pretty cool, although since all articles use the example of the Belgian women tracking trains I don’t think it was very widespread. And most people would definitely notice something was up with the fabric, it would look quite wobbly :) For the people reading along who prefer English, this one is almost identical (although it says “dropped stitch” where I think they mean “yarn over”) www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii  @grimalkina Wait you mean your mastodon threads aren’t just copy pasted from your blog draft folder? @grimalkina Please write this! There is so much to be gained from learning from other disciplines... and crafts!  @grimalkina awesome code lies at the intersection between technical skill and *please literally any fucking thing else but programming* 😫 @grimalkina I often think about that (apocryphal? Trying to find a source but Google isn't being helpful) story about the mathematician excitedly telling his wife about a new discovery in knot theory, only to be told that the crochet community had known about it for quite a while  @bujold @grimalkina I know there's a crocheter (several crocheters at this point) who is also a mathematical who has some work in this area: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-mathematical-yarn-how-to-stitch-a-hyperbolic-pseudosphere/ @grimalkina the best software devs are always those with non technical community hobbies and broader lives, eh. @grimalkina strangely, i’ve always found there’s much good connection between programmers and knitting: https://kagi.com/search?q=developer+community+around+knitting @grimalkina I just spent the weekend with hundreds of programmers who are woodworkers and metalworkers on the weekend who absolutely were thrilled to learn sewing. It is ALL problem-solving.  @grimalkina but that would require said #devs to be humble and not #TechBros who see themselves as apex #engineers since they make the tools that "#10X coders" use...  @grimalkina I mean, I’ve given multiple talks at hacker cons about textiles, so, yeah, agree?  @grimalkina Tell us more! :blob_cat_melt_love: |
tempted to write a ridiculous blogpost about this