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Please consider writing a blog about this. Would love to know more.

• eru 7mo ago
  Sorry, I don't have time. See https://www.mathemaknitter.com/ https://www.mathemaknitter.com/ for her (sadly neglected) blog that also links to her ravelry account and patterns. Mostly the conceptual evolution was: Knitting patterns have a lot of numbers with mathematical relations between them. You could keep track of them by hand, but spreadsheets are already an improvement. Especially when you want to make edits to earlier parts of the pattern. Well, spreadsheets aren't too bad to write, but they are basically write-only software, impossible to audit. She'd already learned programming in Haskell before, so going from there to using Haskell for making the numbers work out was a small step, conceptually.
  • afc 7mo ago
    She has a cool blog, I liked her articles! How does she keep track of what row she's on, as she knits? I wonder if she'd be interested in specifying her patterns in a format my knitting software (visualization) could consume. Anyhow, cool stuff!
    • eru 7mo ago
      I have contact details in my profile. If you send me an email, I can put you in touch.
  • srean 7mo ago
    Thanks a bunch.