I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
For 15–20 years we’ve been looking at how big companies are solving their big problems, instead of learning how those of us with small problems (individuals and SMBs) best solve their small problems.
That’s our Occam’s razor why frontend devs know Bootcamp/Tailwind, jQuery/React, bundle/deploy, and have every 10-visitor site sit on all edge servers—but for whom HTML is div and CSS is broken.
The craft of knitting Cowichan sweaters is handed down through the generations in First Nations families on Vancouver Island, BC.
Having to sell the sweaters at wholesale prices to shops that mark up the retail cost by hundreds of dollars has led to an initiative called Knit With Purpose to deal direct with buyers and give knitters a fair wage for their time and expertise.
There's so much emphasis on people learning to program/code as a path to supposed riches (hey, we're not all in Silicon Valley), but very little talk about being able to use that craft to solve small, personal, local problems. I recently wrote a custom program to solve a thorny planning problem for my fianceé, and small bits of code help around the edges with my streaming and other tasks. Bespoke is beautiful, and underrated!
Folk might be interested to know that across the month of May, Sustainable Fashion Week’s #MendItMay campaign invites people to mend one piece of clothing, celebrating repair as an act of empowerment.
I think I'll have a go at my #mending pile. If anyone wants to share mending projects or #craft pics, that'd be lovely.
The stats for why #repair is great are pretty compelling:
Last two books for my Bookmaking Class at Lillstreet! First one is a French chain long stitch book. I LOVE the cover and the pattern on spine but had some trouble with the paper.
This is a wooden yarn box I made for my wife in 2017.
She knits & crochets a lot and the box keeps the balls of wool out of reach of the cats 😉
It's made from three different woods, Utile, Idigbo and Walnut.
I like to look back each year at the things I have crocheted (and this year for the first time knitted)
These are my makes for 2023. #crochet#knitting#handmade#craft
Hey awsome humans. Finally uploaded LOADS of new handmade works to Etsy. My current ADHD fixation is baroque glass pendants (they are so beautiful 🥺) but I also added some gorgeous Amethyst sets, a Rainbow set, Mushroom and Fruit sets and Planets sets. Go have a look if you'd like and I hope to send anything you like your way very soon ❤️
All adjustable, unisex options and worldwide shipping available.
Today it is a butterfly stitch book. It is a bit loose and rests open pretty easily. Similar to a Coptic stich but a bit easier on the hands...and I love the interwoven threads 🤗
Second week of class at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago - next week is learning Longstitch Books!
The great 2024 #decluttering has turned up this. It’s a washable colouring in map thingy. I’m very tempted to turn it into a small quilt. Maybe with flags around the outside as a border? Could maybe colour in the critters with embroidery? 🤔
It’s out: “Upgrade Your HTML V” is available now! 👏
Thanks and kudos @5t3ph (foreword and review), @zcorpan (reviews), and Martha Martins (editing) for their help making this a worthy new part of the HTML craft and minimalism ebook series!
My wife, Sarah, is an absolute star at making things. She made the hand-stitched booklets for my upcoming limited release, but she's always got something on the go - whether it's making bags and stuff for her Etsy shop, knitting or crocheting toys for the children of family and friends, knocking up wonderful hand-knitted socks and other wearables - or recently things like this. Making little toys from recycling things we have lying around.
I thought Crafting Mastodon might like to take a look and perhaps say Hi on her YouTube channel.
My wife had a stall at a Christmas craft fair yesterday selling the items she makes as part of her fabric business. Another stall was selling fully lined bags for £3. The material cost must have been at least that, meaning that the stall holder/crafter was not costing for her time. If you make things to sell as a hobby, you should still charge for your time, otherwise you devalue other crafter's work. #HandMade#Hobby#Craft#Craftwork
Finally, I just wanted to thank you for reading this thread - I've enjoyed learning bookbinding and have enjoyed sharing my projects here on Mastodon with you. I've really appreciated all the encouragement!
Here are a few more projects I've done over the past few months:
Here’s day 1 of #MyCreativeYear. It’s the 20th and I’m starting (unsurprisingly) with January.
I was bought a loom by Mr. CP for Christmas, which I started to play with properly in January. I absolutely love weaving - seems to have the right balance of repetition and concentration for me.
I made a scarf (shocking I know!) and a piece of fabric I later turned into a cushion cover.