[HN Gopher] Barbara: Live coding languages for quilters
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       Barbara: Live coding languages for quilters
        
       Author : spansoa
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2023-08-24 17:32 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.barbara.graphics)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.barbara.graphics)
        
       | sleepybrett wrote:
       | Would be cool if you could export actual sewing/cutting patterns,
       | otherwise it's just a grammer for making square pictures.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | Was it this one?
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           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36761655
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           | (search : "tile", past year, sort by popular :) )
        
       | notpeter wrote:
       | Sadly their Heroku dyno has fallen over. It's open source and
       | works locally though.
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       | Old Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLaMCr8g0n4
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       | Github: https://github.com/kitzeller/barbara
        
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       | aappleby wrote:
       | Misread as "for quitters", imagined a language that gave you
       | encouraging messages for each syntax error.
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       | "I'm sorry but 'printhrglf' is not a function. You're doing so
       | well though, keep trying!"
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | 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
        
         | wly_cdgr wrote:
         | Came here to make a joke about this, but you already made a
         | better one, so never mind.
        
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