Geek projects
of two kinds: Knitting and Programming.
The past couple of days have been spent with hughe and pinkoi - knitting and general geeking and playing with cats. A fabulous couple of days.
A few weeks back I finally found the yarn I was after for a sweater that I'm planning to make and then made a couple of test swatches. It comes out really well but with pinkoi's guidance wetted one to see how it responded, but it opened up a lot and ended up being far too loose. Perhaps I need to felt it, but that would shrink it a lot. I've not done much blocking for felting so need to defer to the judgement of a more reasoned knitter before trying it with such a large project. It can wait a while ayway, since a two part sweater course that I found (as a result of this post doesn't start for several weeks yet.
The other project I've been working on is a web dev project. Until I started this project earlier this week, I've not really done any web dev since I worked for Angels back when I lived in Gothic ValleyHolloway. It pains me how quickly skills fade through disuse. Anyway, the idea is a rendition of TreeHouse from looney labs. It's a basic skeleton at the moment so nothing worth showing but there's something like 10-20 hours of dev time left. depending on how much time I invest I should have something ready in a month or so. The challenging issue is that I'm trying to make it firewall-friendly by doing it all with HTTP and AJAX.
ETA:
Since this post is about geek projects, here's one I've been meaning to post for a while. It's not one of my own, but definitely one for the geek cat owners. hughe comes to mind but there are possibly other close electronic-geeks too.
A web cam attached to a catflap to deny access when the cat is carrying dead animals.
The past couple of days have been spent with hughe and pinkoi - knitting and general geeking and playing with cats. A fabulous couple of days.
A few weeks back I finally found the yarn I was after for a sweater that I'm planning to make and then made a couple of test swatches. It comes out really well but with pinkoi's guidance wetted one to see how it responded, but it opened up a lot and ended up being far too loose. Perhaps I need to felt it, but that would shrink it a lot. I've not done much blocking for felting so need to defer to the judgement of a more reasoned knitter before trying it with such a large project. It can wait a while ayway, since a two part sweater course that I found (as a result of this post doesn't start for several weeks yet.
The other project I've been working on is a web dev project. Until I started this project earlier this week, I've not really done any web dev since I worked for Angels back when I lived in Gothic ValleyHolloway. It pains me how quickly skills fade through disuse. Anyway, the idea is a rendition of TreeHouse from looney labs. It's a basic skeleton at the moment so nothing worth showing but there's something like 10-20 hours of dev time left. depending on how much time I invest I should have something ready in a month or so. The challenging issue is that I'm trying to make it firewall-friendly by doing it all with HTTP and AJAX.
ETA:
Since this post is about geek projects, here's one I've been meaning to post for a while. It's not one of my own, but definitely one for the geek cat owners. hughe comes to mind but there are possibly other close electronic-geeks too.
A web cam attached to a catflap to deny access when the cat is carrying dead animals.