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Barbara: Live coding languages for quilters

69 points by spansoa 3y ago

sleepybrett 3y ago
Would be cool if you could export actual sewing/cutting patterns, otherwise it's just a grammer for making square pictures.
- dylan604 3y ago
  could be dismissed as just square pictures. they could also be tiles. recently there was a post on a decent little tiling program where the tiles created from TFA could be interesting to play with in the other link. (I suck at search here, otherwise, I'd post a link back to it)
  - gilleain 3y ago
    Was it this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36761655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36761655 (search : "tile", past year, sort by popular :) )
    - dylan604 3y ago
      Yes it was. Next time I need search, I'll try searching for your reply to learn how to do it...
aappleby 3y ago
Misread as "for quitters", imagined a language that gave you encouraging messages for each syntax error. "I'm sorry but 'printhrglf' is not a function. You're doing so well though, keep trying!"
- dylan604 3y ago
  oh gawd, if i were using a language that did that, i'd quit immediately. i'm shocked it hasn't been built already though with all of the stereotypes that this seems perfectly suited for
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- wly_cdgr 3y ago
  Came here to make a joke about this, but you already made a better one, so never mind.
notpeter 3y ago
Sadly their Heroku dyno has fallen over. It's open source and works locally though. Old Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLaMCr8g0n4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLaMCr8g0n4 Github: https://github.com/kitzeller/barbara https://github.com/kitzeller/barbara
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kubectl_h 3y ago
I recently picked up a cheap sewing machine to attempt to make some covers for a foam mattress I cut up to put in the back of a truck for camping. Sewing is super interesting and a little intimidating to get started with, but once you get the machine setup and start making some basic things it's really rewarding. I'm still very new to the world but I find myself inspecting every sewn thing I pick up -- backpacks, bathroom travel bags, pillowcases, clothing, etc. It re-orients your relationship to the construction of so many products that you take for granted. Everything that is sewn is up for repair or upgrades. It's a really cool hobby and if you have a tinkerers or DIY streak to you I highly suggest trying it out. Check out the MYOG reddit to get inspiration.
shaunxcode 3y ago
Stand back I’m about to say something nice about Perl. This reminds me of the book “higher order Perl” which has quilting patterns on the cover: https://hop.perl.plover.com/cover.html https://hop.perl.plover.com/cover.html

69 points by spansoa 3y ago

Would be cool if you could export actual sewing/cutting patterns, otherwise it's just a grammer for making square pictures.

dylan604 3y ago
could be dismissed as just square pictures. they could also be tiles. recently there was a post on a decent little tiling program where the tiles created from TFA could be interesting to play with in the other link. (I suck at search here, otherwise, I'd post a link back to it)
- gilleain 3y ago
  Was it this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36761655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36761655 (search : "tile", past year, sort by popular :) )
  - dylan604 3y ago
    Yes it was. Next time I need search, I'll try searching for your reply to learn how to do it...

aappleby 3y ago

Misread as "for quitters", imagined a language that gave you encouraging messages for each syntax error. "I'm sorry but 'printhrglf' is not a function. You're doing so well though, keep trying!"

dylan604 3y ago
oh gawd, if i were using a language that did that, i'd quit immediately. i'm shocked it hasn't been built already though with all of the stereotypes that this seems perfectly suited for
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wly_cdgr 3y ago
Came here to make a joke about this, but you already made a better one, so never mind.

notpeter 3y ago

Sadly their Heroku dyno has fallen over. It's open source and works locally though. Old Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLaMCr8g0n4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLaMCr8g0n4 Github: https://github.com/kitzeller/barbara https://github.com/kitzeller/barbara

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kubectl_h 3y ago

I recently picked up a cheap sewing machine to attempt to make some covers for a foam mattress I cut up to put in the back of a truck for camping. Sewing is super interesting and a little intimidating to get started with, but once you get the machine setup and start making some basic things it's really rewarding. I'm still very new to the world but I find myself inspecting every sewn thing I pick up -- backpacks, bathroom travel bags, pillowcases, clothing, etc. It re-orients your relationship to the construction of so many products that you take for granted. Everything that is sewn is up for repair or upgrades. It's a really cool hobby and if you have a tinkerers or DIY streak to you I highly suggest trying it out. Check out the MYOG reddit to get inspiration.

shaunxcode 3y ago

Stand back I’m about to say something nice about Perl. This reminds me of the book “higher order Perl” which has quilting patterns on the cover: https://hop.perl.plover.com/cover.html https://hop.perl.plover.com/cover.html