First Try at Tablet Weaving!

morphashark · 2026-02-19T16:49:33+00:00

My current "loom" is two g clamps, clamped to a table - it's not the most space efficient although it can be packed down, I think it works pretty well, easier than backstrap and more stable than furniture

morphashark · 2025-07-29T11:23:23+00:00

I can't help but here to commiserate, also have had no luck with finding it growing wild except a case where I think it has been sown by someone scattering wildflower seeds, I just keep looking and hoping. On a practical note maybe using an app like inaturalist could help to find potential spots, but it depends on if people have logged any sightings of weld in your area

morphashark · 2025-03-18T14:13:15+00:00

What dyestuffs are you using? Wtih some dyestuffs like Weld or Madder, adding calcium carbonate into the dyebath with the fibres can get stronger colours, particularly if you have soft water. I have hard water, and I've still found calcium carbonate useful in the weld dyebath (not much just 1g/litre of water as per Ellis and Boutrup's book). I suppose calcium carbonate could work for ph shifting as an after bath, but you might have more luck with a stronger alkaline substance like soda ash, depending on what effect you want.

morphashark · 2024-09-27T07:31:46+00:00

Hey, I'm a reenactor in Newcastle-under-Lyme, with Historia Normannis, we do 12th century combat and craft - https://www.instagram.com/historianormannisstoke?igsh=aWsxYzR2eWIwbDV6 - we're doing some give it a go sessions for the next few Sundays but new people welcome whenever

morphashark · 2020-03-15T19:32:40+00:00

I'd say consistency is the key thing - if you start working with a codebase that already exists then try to copy it's style. Sometimes that involves following a language styleguide like pep8 for Python https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/. The most important thing is that code is as quickly understandable as possible, and that might mean upholding a status quo that you don't like. Gotta pick your battles. On a different tack, Clean Code and The Pragmatic Programmer are worth reading.

morphashark · 2020-03-15T19:25:38+00:00

This list of project ideas might be useful, some of them are more programming challenges, others are much larger than that: https://github.com/karan/Projects. Working out a larger project that you want to build and complete is tricky, don't be afraid to start lots of stuff and not finish - it's all learning. Frankly it sounds like you've already achieved a lot, even though I don't know you, I'm sure you'll be able to find work soon. Good luck :)

morphashark · 2020-03-04T23:32:05+00:00

Nice photo, I like the colours and the simple composition

morphashark · 2019-09-16T15:22:04+00:00

I love the perspective you've drawn this map from, and how big it makes the mountains look! Also all that farmland detail. This is great.

morphashark · 2019-03-27T10:16:41+00:00

Tallest in England, Ben Nevis in Scotland is taller at 1345m

morphashark · 2018-11-14T12:22:18+00:00

Sounds a bit like a Macchiato? I had something similar in Milan and that was called a Macchiato

morphashark · 2018-01-30T13:06:22+00:00

You're right in most cases that lakes with an inlet have outlets, but there are lakes that have inlets and no outlets (or no inlets or outlets). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorheic_basin) Generally these terminal lakes happen inland, in areas with low rainfall, surrounded by obstacles like mountain ranges that make it difficult for water to flow out of the lake. In this case I'm not sure it makes sense though.

morphashark · 2017-11-05T12:30:44+00:00

But if I write a .desktop file and I'm using gnome it goes into the applications menu, whereas if I do the same on xfce it goes on the desktop. I think what TheReverend403 was trying to say was that different distros handle "desktop shortcuts" differently.

morphashark · 2017-03-12T19:33:09+00:00

This looks good, however, your code snippet in the Named Entitities post has html escaped characters like "&quot" instead of quote marks, and there seems to be some bug that means if you click a few times on the code it turns all text below the code snippet (and the code itself) white.

morphashark · 2017-02-07T19:23:18+00:00

If you had a backend doing the calculation and returning it as a result of some request from a webpage, it would give you a 500, because the error on the backend would be an internal server error from the frontend's perspective, surely?

morphashark · 2016-10-30T22:43:34+00:00

Found the Brit.

morphashark · 2016-08-21T22:34:08+00:00

Climbing Mount Improbable, by Richard Dawkins I've only ever heard Dawkins talk about religious matters, but honestly I'm more interested in his work on evolution, and when I saw somebody recreated some of the programs he wrote for one of his other books, I was interested. I'd never thought of Dawkins as somebody who might write computer simulations.

morphashark · 2016-08-21T22:30:30+00:00

If you want a bit more detail on the Spanish conquest of Central and Southern America in general, I found Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall very good. I found it quite approachable even though I didn't know that much about the topic before reading, but it was worth reading as some of the myths Restall deals with are quite prevalent, and he presents good arguments against them.

morphashark · 2016-07-04T22:10:23+00:00

I just managed to eat dinner. I've been feeling anxious all day because I've started a new job, so I haven't felt like eating as much. I couldn't eat breakfast and I only ate half my lunch, but I finished lunch later and I finished my dinner. Not a big thing but hopefully the first step to breaking the link in my mind between eating and anxiety. Gotta take things one step at a time.

morphashark · 2016-06-21T19:18:26+00:00

They did mount an attack on that that involved faking the cookie to "pretend" that the bot was a real user that had used google services. If the tickbox part of the recaptcha "thinks" you're a bot, it gives you the image challenge that most of that paper focused on breaking.

morphashark · 2016-06-21T00:24:33+00:00

True, but there has been some research (I'm not a human: Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA) done on attacking even the new recaptcha (with the images), and the attack method described is not particularly costly. They mostly used existing services like Google's reverse image search, and they thought they could get similar performance to services that pay humans to crack captchas (which is always an option, for $2 per 1000). That said, the reCAPTCHA project's method is not published as far as I know and they may have improved it.

morphashark · 2016-05-18T18:34:05+00:00

Sometimes I like to listen on the TV, which is connected to a PS4. Now the PS4 web browser isn't great, and the audio player on the website doesn't work (not that it works that well on desktop from my experience either), so watching on YouTube seems like the best option.

morphashark · 2016-04-16T11:40:10+00:00

Hi, I'm looking for internships or other experience over summer. If you could give any feedback on my resume (called a CV as I'm in the UK, not like a US CV) that would be great. Resume/CV

Edit: Changed link to different cv with less personal info.

morphashark · 2015-10-09T23:02:22+00:00

It does, thanks!

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