Tien’s blog

In the last two days I’ve written 13 pages of specs for the social network project (don’t look too impressed: two of those pages are the table of contents!).  There are still a lot of gaps but the basic framework is starting to take shape.
There are six basic kinds of “objects” (information-collections, or (I think) [...]

I am stymied in my attempts to weave doubleweave until I can get the wood pieces to enlarge my sectional beam, so I am working on other projects for the time being.  (I have called a woodworker about it, but they haven’t called me back yet; I’ll do another round of phone calls on Monday.)
I [...]

Claudia and I have been playing around with domain names for the weavers’ social network.  So far the ones we like are:

warpnweave
weavingvillage
weavolution
weavinguniverse

Which of those is your favorite?  Any other suggestions?

After some consultation with various weavers and with AVL, I’m going to try building up the back beam rather than try to put warp separators in each section.  The reason is pretty simple: I don’t believe that the warp separators will solve the problem.  Put over the knots, they’ll stick up unevenly and most likely [...]

You may recall that at the end of last year, I was interested in creating a Ravelry-equivalent for handweavers. I had thought about it, checked out a couple of content management systems, and in general was pretty gung-ho about it, except for one thing: I was NOT willing to maintain and administer it long-term. [...]