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From 'Doctor Who' to 'Outlander': How Fans Craft Reverse Engineer Knits
A timeline of reverse-engineered pop-culture knitwearFri 21 Jan 2022 11:03:51 AM MST - permalink -- https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/reverse-engineer-knits-pattern-doctor-who-outlander-star-wars/
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Tunisian Crochet - Working in the Round
Videos which demonstrate two methods for working Tunisian crochet in the round.Tue 14 Dec 2021 08:23:32 AM MST - permalink -- https://stitchdiva.com/pages/tunisian-crochet-working-in-the-round
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Crown Shaping Masterclass
Some ideas for shaping the crown of knit hats.Mon 22 Nov 2021 10:17:26 AM MST - permalink -- https://www.woollywormhead.com/blog/2016/9/20/crown-shaping-masterclass
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The Life, and Death, of PC Gaming's Most Famous Cover Star
"He was 70 when he appeared on the cover of The Chessmaster 2000, and that same image was used on Chessmaster games for the next 16 years. A professional actor to the very end, Hare passed away in 1997, not in a hospital but on stage, during a rehearsal at Manhattan's famous Actor's Studio"Sun 21 Nov 2021 05:24:07 PM MST - permalink -- https://kotaku.com/the-life-and-death-of-pc-gamings-most-famous-cover-st-5939503
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The Secret World of Oscilloscope Probes [PDF]
Doug Ford's classic 2009 article on how oscilloscope probes work including how 10x probes use lossy coax to improve frequency response.Sun 07 Nov 2021 09:17:22 PM MST - permalink -- http://dfad.com.au/links/THE%20SECRET%20WORLD%20OF%20PROBES%20OCt09.pdf
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Things you're allowed to do
"This is a list of things you’re allowed to do that you thought you couldn’t, or didn’t even know you could."Sun 22 Aug 2021 07:52:13 AM MDT - permalink -- https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/
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Ideology: A talk by Gary Bernhardt
A talk by Gary Bernhardt from Strange Loop 2015 about ideology in computer programming (the beliefs that guide programmers without them realizing/admitting that they hold those beliefs).Sat 21 Aug 2021 03:19:07 PM MDT - permalink -- https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology
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Metacrap
There are at least seven insurmountable obstacles between the world as we know it and meta-utopiaMon 19 Jul 2021 09:31:02 AM MDT - permalink -- https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm
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Let's not Encrypt
I like this guy's rants.Sat 17 Jul 2021 07:59:46 PM MDT - permalink -- http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/lets_not_encrypt.xhtml
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DevURLs – A neat developer news aggregator
I like these link aggregators by Peter Krumins. Also:Tue 06 Jul 2021 10:48:16 AM MDT - permalink -
https://mathurls.com/
https://hwurls.com/
https://techurls.com/
https://tuxurls.com/- https://devurls.com/
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Browserling's online programmer tools
This is a large collection of single purpose, chainable (like a pipeline) tools for text and image processing (csv conversion, etc) and other tools that are written in javascript and run in the browser. I'm impressed whenever I come across one of them (and they've been useful to me a few times).Tue 06 Jul 2021 10:21:30 AM MDT - permalink -- https://www.browserling.com/tools
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BBC World Service - The Interview Archive, Jeff Sarwer, Former Child Chess Prodigy
Jeff Sarwer was the intimidating 8-year-old chess prodigy who drew against Josh Waitzkin to share a US Junior Chess championship title (the basis for the dramatic finale in the film "Searching for Bobby Fischer"). He's a professional poker player now.Mon 28 Jun 2021 04:55:53 PM MDT * - permalink -
Jennifer Shahade also interviewed him for the USCF website a few years ago: http://www.uschess.org/index.php/January/Lost-and-Found-An-Interview-with-Jeff-Sarwer.html- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cdz33
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Knitting Magazines
Knitting (and some crochet) magazines on the Internet ArchiveSun 27 Jun 2021 04:20:09 PM MDT - permalink -- https://archive.org/details/knittingmagazines?&sort=date
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The Computer Magazine Archives
All of the "computer magazine" collections on the Internet ArchiveSun 27 Jun 2021 04:19:35 PM MDT - permalink -- https://archive.org/details/computermagazines
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Commodore Computer Periodicals
"Magazines and periodicals dedicated to computers manufactured by Commodore International (1954-1994), including the PET, Commodore 64, Amiga, and other related models."Sun 27 Jun 2021 04:18:46 PM MDT - permalink -- https://archive.org/details/commodoremagazines?sort=-week
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Threaded Code
Discussion of various techniques for dispatching instructions in virtual machine interpreter. (I got here while reading about Forth and "threaded languages".)Sun 27 Jun 2021 01:26:52 PM MDT - permalink -- https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html