Emma's microblog

programmer. knitter. collage poet. violinist. home cook.

website: https://emmajuettner.com

languages: EN, ES

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Emma

@emma@social.emmajuettner.com

FYI - I'm moving fedi software, from microblog.pub to GoToSocial. (I've been running into increasing bugs with microblog.pub lately, and sadly it seems like it is no longer being maintained.) I'm excited to get familiar with GoToSocial, since it seems like a much more mature piece of software while also being lightweight enough to work for my use-case!

As a result, I'll be moving my account over to @emma@fedi.emmajuettner.com, since I can't change the software while still using my social.emmajuettner.com subdomain. I should be able to port over following/followers automatically, so no action required to keep following me-- this is just a heads-up :)

My old server (social.emmajuettner.com) will be taken offline sometime in early January 2024, once I'm confident that the migration has gone smoothly.

Emma

@emma@social.emmajuettner.com

I probably won't manage to make anything new for #goblinWeek this year but I will take the opportunity to share the collage poem I made last year, since it is still one of my favorite things I've made

#collage #poem

Collaged text on lined paper which reads: goblin time It's time to talk about goblins. You know, a little wild, a little green, kind of like Muppets? Well, they need your help. Goblins in our community are suffering, exhausted by the internet, and want to snuggle in for their holiday hibernation. Your support is crucial in helping provide them with year-round access to their daily needs: Cuppa joe weird radish Waffle a cedarwood candle Please donate today. All gifts are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. $15 can help feed and vaccinate a goblin $25 can purchase them a cozy flannel nightie $50 can help them receive a lot of weird new bugs Any amount helps! Wrap a bit of cash in brown paper and place it in ANY garden on a crisp morning... we'll find it.

Emma

@emma@social.emmajuettner.com

New #collage #poem, about climate change and planting seeds.

This is the second poem I've made by collaging together bits of text from an old econ workbook. (I'm planning to put them all together in a zine when I've completed a few more.)

The first poem, A Bad Dream, can be found here: https://emmajuettner.com/posts/a-bad-dream/

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Collaged text on lined notebook paper reads: The Logic of Individual Choice. Suppose you are a novice gardener. The television reports pictures of melting ice and flooded areas. Warm weather arrives and Southern California experiences unusually high temperatures. A small city located by a lake has been dumping its raw sewage into the lake. You plant one seed in a flower pot and watch it grow. Your friend says, "Why are you wasting your time? You can't provide the world's supply of wheat berries in your little pot." You cannot produce 100 tons of wheat per day. However, you do produce a stalk of wheat with plump wheat berries. If the weather gets very hot, what will most likely happen? In the long run, what will happen? The next year, you plant two seeds in that pot.

Emma

@emma@social.emmajuettner.com

New #introduction now that I've set up my own server— hello, I'm Emma! (previously @emmajuettner@mastodon.art; I'll be migrating my follows over to this new account shortly)

I tend to post about knitting, making collage poems, cooking, creating generative art, mending clothing, tinkering with HTML & CSS, and reading sci-fi stories.

Emma shared a month ago

Gammapeak

@gammapeak@sauropods.win

Had another pair of jeans in for repair with frayed pocket openings. This time I decided to alternate the colour of the binding to encode information, with the binding for each eighth of an inch representing one bit, and so each inch representing one ASCII character. I enjoyed this repair, I hope the jeans owner likes it too!

#VisibleMending #mending #embroidery

A photograph of the edge of a jeans pocket, which has been bound using satin stitch in bands of black and white thread. One segment of the bound edge has been highlighted, with a label indicating that the black and white bands represent bits of value 1 and 0 respectively. The 8 bits of the highlighted segment read 01000001, representing the ASCII character 'A'.

A photograph of the front of a rather worn pair of jeans. Both front pocket openings have been bound in black and white thread. The pattern is different on each pocket.

Emma shared a month ago

Naomi P

@gannet@wandering.shop

Top down hats for mutual aid, made from scrap yarn I want to get rid of anyway. This orangey one is a dark orange solid sportweight yarn held together with fingering weight yarns. I ran out of the variegated one, and had a bit of trouble finding another in the same weight, but that solid brown worked out well.

(A friend knows people doing mutual aid in western NC, and they’ve asked for warm hats.)

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#knitting #FiberArts

A hand knitted beanie with a smooth top and ribbed sides for stretchiness.

Most of the hat is knit with a rusty orange yarn held together with a grey, black, cream, and orange yarn. The bottom edge is rusty orange held together with medium brown.

Emma shared a month ago

Stefan Bohacek

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Folks who run their own site/blog, did you know that you can add alt text to the images that show up on social media when your articles are shared?

og:image:alt
twitter:image:alt

#AltText #accessibility #webdev

A screenshot of a Mastodon post where an article is shared. The featured image thumbnail is overlaid with a tooltip that contains the alt text describing the image.

Emma shared a month ago

Jonty Wareing

@jonty@chaos.social

Knitted metasurfaces! Absolutely wild, straight out of ~2000s speculative fiction.

I would like a Christmas jumper that doubles as a passive radar antenna array.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-blanket-sophisticated-radio-frequency-antennas.html

A picture of two knitted pieces of fabric with odd patterns woven into them in conductive thread

Emma shared a month ago

Lizbon

@Lizbon@writing.exchange

Here, you look like you could use some bunnies. #knitting

Two handknitted bunnies in natural coloured wool that approximately wild rabbits’ speckled colouring. They are facing the camera, perched on the edge of a green bowl with a teal knitted sock in progress in it.

The two bunnies seen from the back, showing their fluffy white tails made from unspun white Jacob wool fleece.

Emma shared a month ago

Trammell Hudson

@th@v.st

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@platypus my bank used to allow custom security questions, so I set one to "what are you wearing?" and the answer to "that's very inappropriate please transfer me to your manager". the first time an customer service rep encountered it they couldn't stop laughing and had to actually transfer to a coworker to complete the call.

Emma

@emma@social.emmajuettner.com

cursed idea that crossed my mind at work today: SonarQube Wrapped

"this year, the category of code smell you pushed most frequently was Cognitive Complexity > 15"

"you added more unit tests than 90% of your coworkers"

etc.

Emma

@emma@social.emmajuettner.com

An exciting discovery: the air in my home gets extremely dry in the winter and it irritates my nostrils, but I just had the idea to take one of my cloth masks from the early days of the pandemic, run it under some water, and then put it on. Now any air I breathe in is passing through a layer of damp cloth first, so it's like an extremely localized humidifier. (I have an actual humidifier too, but this solution has a much more immediate effect)

Emma shared a month ago

Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

Repair culture, thrifting, gift economies are hugely important to fighting the #climatecrisis. I've admittedly never been a shopper--I don't get the hit of pleasure with new stuff--but I *did* associate repair/thrift with poverty (my parents grew up very poor and stridently put that behind them as they rose to lower middle class), so I understand *all of this* is cultural programming. And we have to deprogram.
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Emma shared a month ago

hennige

@hennige@mastodon.online

Robin on Robin
This time I was ready and waiting 🙂

#Robin #RobinSculpture #BirdFeeder #Lucky #Photography #Vogel #Rotkehlchen

Last week I took a photo of this very Robin sitting on top of the fake Robin. It was a lucky shot mit my iPhone.
Anyway, I wanted to take a similar photo with a different camera. The Robin was playing hike and seek with me. Sitting on the fake for just a second or so, too fast for me to grab my camera.
But! Yesterday I waited at the same spot for a while and sure enough I got the photo I wanted.
A real Robin sitting on a fake Robin looking exactly in the same direction.

Emma shared a month ago

Reports From Unknown Places

@clever_reports@mastodon.art

We report: the sunset is revealing clouds that were too thin to see during the day. The light is catching them from below, like a last-minute attempt to get attention on what the sky was doing today. It is working for us. We watch the clouds fade back into dusty blue.

Digital painting of a sunset sky, a gradient of a pale blue to yellow, with wispy pink clouds fanned out across the whole span of the frame.

Emma shared a month ago

Clive Thompson

@clive@saturation.social

Behold the wonderful animated gifs of the artist Alex Khabbazi

he individually knits each frame

The result: A gorgeous glitchy blend of the analog and digital

Item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-27-aztec-death-whistles-supercircular/

GIF

Emma shared a month ago

Deborah Pickett

@futzle@old.mermaid.town

Futzle Industries presents:
A Christmas Wasted With Deb Pickett

A musical extravaganza of bad song parodies and original doggerel, including:

• Space Parity (I’m on Hold to Telecom)
• Pooper Scooper
• I’ve Written a Self-referential Major General Parody
• Brillo, Spit-Brillo
• Clank! I Just Thought of the Romans Again!

Plus one or two Christmas songs.

Streaming on #RadioFreeFedi Saturday 21 December 2024, evening for the western Pacific, morning for Europe (oh god o’clock for the Americas), which also happens to be both the solstice and Saturnalia [CLANK] 0️⃣.

From the Simpsons, a drawn sign in the style of an industrial safety sign: 0️⃣ DAYS SINCE LAST THOUGHT OF ROMAN EMPIRE.

Emma shared a month ago

Design Thinking! Comic

@designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud

A Song for Black Friday

This is an ode to drone
You no longer go fly.
A hym for the Peloton
You hang clothes on to dry.
For the poor VR headset
You find wearing a chore,
Or the unwanted smart watch
Now just stuck in a drawer.
For the digital camera
You forget to take out.
The AirTags and Alexas
All left lying about.
So remember your tech junk
And abandoned old gear,
Before wasting more money
On Black Friday this year.

Emma shared a month ago

H.B. Tyson

@hbtyson@mastodon.art

Woim 🪱

Digital art of a serpentine creature sitting on a small patch of grass. The style is similar to a woodcut print.

Emma shared a month ago

🇨🇦 Kay the Fluffy

@OhOkKay@beige.party

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@Meyerweb
Ex-cashier here ...
Please place heavy stuff in the middle of the belt so it doesn't stress the cashier's wrist causing carpel tunnel. Light stuff on the outside and small on the inside. All coupons placed with the product so the cashier doesn't have to hunt for the product to see if it matches the coupon.
And never make a cashier pull items out of basket. The stress on their wrists and fingers causes painful life long injuries.