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Sewing Tutorials

I just bought my first sewing machine! I'm an absolute beginner, the most sewing I've done is hand-repairing holes in clothes. Do you all have any recommendations for good video tutorial series or channels to watch? Any general advice for a newbie?

My first goal is to make a set of curtains for my living room and bedroom, but I'm interested in sewing some clothes eventually.

  • This is great! And thanks for the link to stuff about Lenia - that was new to me and looks freaking awesome. Next programming side project for sure.

    I've also been meaning to properly get into using Shadertoy, and I think this was a great introduction through an interesting use case.

  • Physical anti-tamper, while important for this type of device, wouldn't have helped for this particular attack. It's an electromagnetic side channel, so they don't even have to be touching the the thing to collect data.

  • I've been playing the new Solium Infernum with a friend - the first playthrough I did not particularly enjoy (partially my fault for not playing the tutorial first) but once I learned the mechanics my second game was more fun. The UI is not very smooth to use and there are some mechanics I don't like, but overall pretty good.

    I also picked up Mindustry again last night - it's an open source Factorio + Tower Defense + RTS that is rather addicting... The new campaign they added a couple years ago is better than the original too.

  • Here's a critique of another anti-degrowth Jacobin article, and the stance Jacobin seems to take on degrowth in general - https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-04/a-response-to-daniel-driscoll-another-slice-of-degrowth-bashing/

    The crux of the argument is

    • Planetary boundaries are hard boundaries, so the economy can't go on growing no matter what. We can either plan this ourselves or be faced with climate disasters planning it for us.
    • Degrowth is not "everyone gets less" - no one will disagree with the goal of lifting the global south out of poverty. It means diverting the unnecessary consumption (and carbon budget) of the most wealthy people in the global north to help those who actually need the economic growth.
  • Now that the roads aren't icy anymore I'm trying to bike to work more often. Did the trip in the rain for the first time today, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be!

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
    xylem @beehaw.org

    Share the solarpunk / smallweb blogs you follow!

    I'm always looking for things to add to my RSS reader! I loved the Hundred Rabbits site that was posted here recently and thought others might have some nice submissions.

    I recently found Sunshine and Seedlings which is substack, alas, but has some great content.

    I'm also a fan of Low-tech Magazine.

  • Lemon balm is my favorite!

    Syncthing is a great way to sync an obsidian vault - not that hard to set up and requires almost zero maintenance. If you've got an iphone you might look into Nextcloud instead. For that matter, set up a Nextcloud server regardless! It's your own personal Google drive plus calendar and contact syncing.

  • I'm in an apartment with a north-facing balcony - I definitely wish I could grow more, but you'd be surprised how much you can do. I've successfully done carrots and potatoes in 5-gallon buckets, as well as pots of herbs.

    This time of year I get sun until mid-morning and after mid-afternoon - it might be for the best actually that I'm shaded from the noon sun.

    This year I've got snap peas growing up the railings, a couple of peppers, and a few tomatoes as well as the carrots, potatoes, and miscellaneous herbs. Everything's doing great right now but when it really starts getting hot in July I'll be watering at least daily. That's the biggest challenge with containers - they need a lot more watering because you just don't have the volume of soil to keep it damp for long.

    I also have a shelf of salad greens under grow lights inside. I definitely recommend that, they grow really fast and taste great!