Was playing around with some HTML and made a cable car for my page. Hmh.

So at today's #lace meeting, I found out that a retired rocket scientist is also a tatter. Like lace #tatting! And he's got a really great book out there. One of my lace group brought it to look it. It's huge. And apparently the pieces are also huge in some cases. Like 3 feet wide.

Anyway, I have ordered it. It looks really terrific.

Here's a review of it too. https://www.somethingunderthebed.com/CURTAIN/REVIEWStat/REVIEWS_ItoL/LYON3.html

I hope this email finds you interesting, but Lord, if you’re boring yourself, it’s intervention time, sugar.

A ver, gente de lejos con ganas de ayudar, un sitio donde meter pasta, de mil que habrá: para el rescate de una librería en Picanya, cercana a unos amigos. Cercana de "la librería favorita de mis amigos" pero también cercana de "sus amigos que llevan la libreria además se han quedado en la calle, incluida la nena de un año es amiga de la nena de mis amigos":
https://www.gofundme.com/f/perdimos-toda-la-tienda?lang=es_ES

De esto nos va a hacer falta en toda la zona, una barbaridad. Negocios pequeños arrasados que como no sea con solidaridad externa se quedarán cerrados, con la consiguiente depresión económica para toda la zona que ya se nos quedará crónica.

I don’t know what the metrics are a scrub jay uses for judging a nut besides weight but they must be very complex. This guy gets paralyzed with indecision and shows me each one and we discuss it and try to make a good and informed decision 😂

Hey fediverse, I'd like to become more active in something that is more meaningful than building webshops. Since I'm quite good with #computers I'm looking for stuff that combines #computing with #sustainability or #ecology, #restoration etc.

But I don't know what's out there and am not sure what exactly to look for, so I'm hoping for some fediverse magic.

Anything you have, articles, projects, etc. Would be cool if you boosted for reach.

#climatechhange #rewilding #permacomputing #tech

For my first night of making a blog post every day in November, I wrote about the experience of having #dyscalculia, and at the very end, talk about how that relates to knitting and the trick I do to count more accurately.

https://eilloh.net/2024/11/02/my-experience-with.html

I spent a bit of time today recovering from the weekend and clearing out my mending pile. This bag from Market Basket had some places where the panels were pulling apart from each other and the binding was falling off. I pulled off the crummy binding and replaced it with some nylon webbing, and ta-da, bag is useful again.

From a purely capitalist perspective, this is a terrible use of time, right? I could just buy a new bag from MB for, like, what, $5? $10? And I could have used that time in Economically Productive Pursuits to Increase The GDP, and someone in an exploited country could have made another one and shipped it across the ocean, and in a couple years that binding would rip and I’d buy a new one and we’d just keep doing that dance until the heat death of the universe.

Or I could spend the time and effort to keep it out of a landfill for a little longer. So I did. And it’s a small thing but it’s better than nothing. Bonus: bag is now significantly gayer.

We can fix things if we take the time.

#makedoandmend #fixityourself #mending #moveslowandfixthings #sewing #visiblemending

My cat is really not very smart as you can see by how easily she was taken in by the French Defense.

#ChessWithCats

Working so small is an interesting (and hand-cramping) challenge.

#MastoArt #ink #inktober #mandala #inkthusiasm

One sock done. #knitting #operationsockdrawer #handknitsocks #colorworkknitting #colorworksocks

Best practices in practice: pre-commit https://curiousity.ca/2024/best-practices-in-practice-pre-commit/ Continuing in my “best practices in practice series” : today’s tool is `pre-commit`. Using pre-commit takes a bunch of failure points out of our code quality and security process, and I highly recommend it. … #BestPractices #BestPracticesInPractice #infosec #OpenSource #review

Important news!
Edit: https://archive.is/https://www.nbcnews.com/all-in/live-blog/safdsg-rcna167697
(ty @faoluin)