Gregory's Server@grimalkina I’ve done a talk on how to write code based on knitting patterns :)
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 @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 |
@venite awesome! I've heard this kind of point made before and it's such a good one. I personally actually am interested in the social and motivational communities around learning, not just convincing technical communities that crafts can also be technical :)