[HN Gopher] Kniterate Notes
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Kniterate Notes
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 55 points
Date : 2026-03-10 15:20 UTC (5 days ago)
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| stavros wrote:
| This looks interesting but I have no idea what it's talking
| about. I assume this is how non-techies feel when reading a
| programming article.
| microflash wrote:
| Indeed. I'm also quite lost but it caught the eye of an
| acquaintance. Hopefully, we'll have a discussion over tea about
| it.
|
| To me, knitting seems to be such an intimate art where a person
| pours their skill and heart. When I wrap myself in the sweater
| that my grandmother knit for me in a city far away from home, I
| feel her presence and love in the patterns woven in the fabric,
| wondering what she'd have been thinking while knitting. "I was
| thinking about the latest mischief of our naughty goats and
| this boy frolicking along with them." She'd answer whenever
| someone asked.
|
| Programming and automating this takes away all that intimacy
| out of that art but I guess it is inevitable for the
| "engineering" minds. Maybe there's a wonder to it just by
| exploring the possibilities, albeit through machines.
| WillAdams wrote:
| The thing is, early knitting machines were advertised by
| showing them competing against "mighty fishermen of many
| years" since it was deemed a necessary activity for fishing
| communities in winter.
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| View it as an extension of Jaquard looms and the punch cards
| used for them being the precursors of modern computers.
|
| c.f., the Native American representations of Intel chip
| designs:
|
| https://kottke.org/24/09/a-navajo-weaving-of-an-intel-
| pentiu...
| kruffalon wrote:
| This is a programming article, just not in your subfield.
|
| If you have any programming background and some time to
| aquiantence yourself with the specific words and aspects of
| this kind of programming I'm sure it will make sense to you too
| :)
| stavros wrote:
| It's mostly the knitting terms I don't know, not so much the
| engineering ones. Fairisle, Jacquard, etc.
| oh_my_goodness wrote:
| Possibly you might be missing the point. Unless maybe this
| comment is subtle humor?
| kruffalon wrote:
| If it is subtle humour it's too subtle for me ;)
| mtVessel wrote:
| I applaud their restraint. Me, I would've been compelled to title
| it, "Kniterate Knotes".
| freedomben wrote:
| I used to live near a town called "Knik" which all the locals
| pronounced with a hard "K" like "Kuh-nick". It launched a
| terrible habit of intentionally pronouncing silent K on all
| words, which was way more fun that it should have been. I
| started using all sorts of phrases just so I could pronounce
| the hard K, like "Don't get your kuh-nickers in a twist". I
| also started using a handle of "The Knight of Knik" which I of
| course pronounced as "The Kuh-nite of Kuh-nik", which then I
| shortened to "The Knik Knight" (pronounced "Kuh-nik Kuh-
| night"). I likewise applaud the author's restraint.
| treetalker wrote:
| Other knitting articles for background (knitting machine;
| programming the machine; etc.) are linked on the same site here:
| https://soup.agnescameron.info/index.html
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