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And after years and years of on-and-off playing it

I

have

finished

the Empirean Campaign in #Flare.

#FreeSoftwareGaming

(with just a tiiiiiny bit of cheating with certain spike traps)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

E dopo anni e anni in cui di tanto in tanto ci giocavo

ho

finito

Empirean Campaign in #Flare

#VideogiochiLiberi

(barando solo un pochettino su delle certe trappole a spuntoni)



I've just started handsewing a backpack, so I don't really need another handsewing project, right?

well…

the backpack is at a stage where I have to think, and today I'm not really able to think, and also it's somewhat heavy sewing, and sometimes I'd prefer to do something lighter, so my plan was to have a second project to alternate it with.

something quick and easy, right? of course not :D

what about dealing with 4.5 meters of lightweight fabric, hemming all of it and then bringing it down to 36ish cm? That's more like it :D

I've decided to make a shirt by following the instructions for a 16th century hemd, except in cotton voile, and a bit shorter so that I can tuck it into my jeans if I want.

katafalk.wordpress.com/2012/06…

Current stage: hemming all of the top edge.

#sewing #handsewing #historyBounding

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@Rapita dagli alieni il thread dove posto aggiornamenti sullo zaino è social.gl-como.it/display/3e3c… e al momento fondamentalmente è ancora così social.gl-como.it/display/3e3c… tranne il fatto che al posto della maggior parte dei segni a matita ci sono delle cuciture (mi manca solo la colonna centrale)


Honeycomb shirt


Posted on May 25, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear, GNU Terry Pratchett
A woman wearing a purplish blue shirt with very wide sleeves, gathered at the cuffs and shoulder with honeycombing, and also a rectangle of honeycombing in the front between the neckline and just above the bust. The shirt is gathered at the waist with a wide belt, and an almost lilac towel hangs from the belt.

After cartridge pleating, the next fabric manipulation technique I wanted to try was smocking, of the honeycombing variety, on a shirt.

My current go-to pattern for shirts is the 1880 menswear oneI have on my website: I love the fact that most of the fabric is still cut as big rectangles, but the shaped yoke and armscyes make it significantly more comfortable than the earlier style where most of the shaping at the neck was done with gathers into a straight collar.

A woman wearing a shirt in the same fabric; this one has a slit in the front, is gathered into a tall rectangular collar and has dropped shoulders because it's cut from plain rectangles. The sleeves are still huge, and gathered into tall cuffs. It is worn belted (with the same wide white elastic belt used in the previous picture) and the woman is wearing a matching fabric mask, because the picture has been taken in 2021.

In my stash I had a cut of purple-blue hopefully cotton [#cotton] I had bought for a cheap price and used for my first attempt at anhistorically accurate pirate / vampire shirt that has now become by official summer vaccine jab / blood test shirt (because it has the long sleeves I need, but they are pretty easy to roll up to give access to my arm.

That shirt tends to get out of the washing machine pretty wearable even without ironing, which made me think it could be a good fabric for something that may be somewhat hard to iron (but also made me suspicious about the actual composition of the fabric, even if it feels nice enough even when worn in the summer).

A piece of fabric with many rows of honeycombing laid on top of the collar and yoke of the shirt; a metal snap peeks from behind the piece of honeycombed fabric. There are still basting lines for the armscyes.

Of course I wanted some honeycombing on the front, but I was afraid that the slit in the middle of it would interfere with the honeycombing and gape, so I decided to have the shirt open in an horizontal line at the yoke.

I added instructions to the pattern pagefor how I changed the opening in the front, basically it involved finishing the front edge of the yoke, and sewing the honeycombed yoke to a piece of tape with snaps.

Another change from the pattern is that I used plain rectangles for the sleeves, and a square gusset, rather than the new style tapered sleeve , because I wanted to have more fabric to gather at the wrist. I did the side and sleeve seams with a hem + whipstitch method rather than a felled seam, which may have helped, but the sleeves went into the fitted armscyes with no issue.

I think that if (yeah, right. when) I’ll make another sleeve in this style I’ll sew it into the side seam starting 2-3 cm lower than the place I’ve marked on the pattern for the original sleeve.

The back of the unbelted shirt: it has a fitted yoke, and then it is quite wide and unfitted, with the fabric gathered into the yoke with a row of honeycombing and some pleating on top.

I also used a row of honeycombing on the back and two on the upper part of the sleeves, instead of the gathering, and of course some rows to gather the cuffs.

The honeycombing on the back was a bit too far away from the edge, so it’s a bit of an odd combination of honeycombing and pleating that I don’t hate, but don’t love either. It’s on the back, so I don’t mind. On the sleeves I’ve done the honeycombing closer to the edge and I’ve decided to sew the sleeve as if it was a cartridge pleated sleeve, and that worked better.

Because circumstances are still making access to my sewing machine more of a hassle than I’d want it to be, this was completely sewn by hand, and at a bit more than a month I have to admit that near the end it felt like it had been taken forever. I’m not sure whether it was the actual sewing being slow, some interruptions that happened when I had little time to work on it, or the fact that I’ve just gone through a time when my brain kept throwing new projects at me, and I kept thinking of how to make those. Thanks brain.

Even when on a hurry to finish it, however, it was still enjoyable sewing, and I think I’ll want to do more honeycombing in the future.

The same woman with arms wide to show the big sleeves and the shirt unbelted to show that it is pretty wide also from the front, below the yoke and the honeycombing. The back can be seen as about 10 cm longer than the front.

Anyway, it’s done! And it’s going straight into my daily garment rotation, because the weather is getting hot, and that means it’s definitely shirt time.


blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/0…



@Matteo Zenatti intanto oggi ero in giro ad un evento all'aperto, ho visto gente trasportare quella che sembrava un arpa or something (se ne infravedeva un angolo, tutto il resto era coperto) e non so come mai mi sei venuto in mente :D


anyway, 2019 journal from the CGIL/FISAC union (workers of insurance companies) 1, fancy moleskine notebook from the insurance company 0

no feathering, almost no see-through (and the paper isn't too thick), nice to write on

compared to “lol, use a pencil, ok”

#fountainPen #fountainPenPeoplePriorities

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

comunque, agenda 2019 CGIL/FISAC (assicurativi) 1, quaderno fighetto moleskine dell'assicurazione 0

niente spiumaggio, sul retro non si vede quasi niente (e la carta non è troppo spessa), piacevole scriverci

confrontato a “lol, usa una matita, ok”

#stilografiche #PrioritàDegliStilografari

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in reply to Fabio

@Fabio Same energy as this article lamenting the web page clutter, shown behind a cookie dialog, a subscription modal and a notification/location permission request popup.
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@Hypolite Petovan Next, on the page behind an insane number of popups and blackmailing registration requests: "Millennials don't read news online anymore!"


I think I'm officially insane, but

new project started: a new backpack, completely sewn by hand,

because I have the fabric (off white coated cotton canvas), and I do have some thread suitable for sewing backpacks by machine, but it's black (and afaik they don't make it in any other colour), or I have some sturdy linen thread in the right colour, but it doesn't go in the machine.

Fabric has been cut, I'll finish this herbal tea and then I'll try to sew it and see how it will work.

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I've started with one of the hard parts, sewing thick cotton webbing to the canvas, and it's not the easiest or quickest sewing I've ever done, but it's not that hard either.
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ho iniziato con una delle parti problematiche, cucire del nastro pesante di cotone sulla tela, e non è il cucito più facile o più veloce che io abbia mai fatto, ma non è neanche particolarmente difficile.
in reply to ilario

@ilario lol, no, no, sto cucendo a mano :D (vedi il primo post sui dubbi sulla mia salute mentale)

però la mia macchina da cucire è una singer heavy duty, casalinga anche se non il modello base, e ci ho cucito cose simili (probabilmente peggio) anche senza macchina professionale

edit: “non il modello base” nel senso che non è una macchina casalinga modello entry level più economico possibile, non nel senso che non è il modello base delle singer heavy duty (lo è, ce ne sono altre con più punti))

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

yesterday I've managed to do three vertical lines of sewing, I have four left and the next step will be attaching the shoulder straps etc. to this back panel.

And while I have made a general plan, I am trying to avoid thinking too much about the steps past the one I'm doing and the next, for my own sanity :D

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

ieri son riuscita a fare tre righe verticali di cucitura, ne mancano quattro, e il passo successivo sarà attaccare gli spallacci ecc. a questo pannello posteriore.

E ho un piano generale, ma sto cercando di evitare di pensare troppo ai passi successivi, per la mia salute mentale :D

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

current status: I've finished attaching the webbing to the back panel, assembled one shoulder strap and started sewing it to the top of said panel.

I have already cut the closure webbing ready to go at the center top, but I need to make the other shoulder strap before I can finish that top seam.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

stauts attuale: ho finito di attaccare i nastri al pannello posteriore, preparato uno spallaccio e ho iniziato a cucirlo in cima al suddetto pannello.

Ho già tagliato il nastro per la chiusura, da cucire in alto al centro, ma devo preparare l'altro spallaccio prima di poter finire quella cucitura.

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in reply to Luigi

@Luigi thanks!

it's me not loving reddit too much (nothing specific against them, just that they aren't federated and community-hosted) :D

but I should have tagged it # MYOG on here, I guess

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

needle count: one lost (how? WHY?), one broken (I don't usually break *handsewing* needles!)

(And I'm not using my usual number 12 or so tiny needles, I'm using a big chunky 9)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

contabilità degli aghi: uno perso (come diamine ho fatto???), uno rotto (e di solito non rompo gli aghi da cucito *a mano*!)

(e non sto neanche usando i miei soliti fini fini del 12, sto usando un bel cicciotto 9)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

On the other hand, the morning was pretty productive and I took pictures of attaching the closure webbing, and assembling and attaching one lower strap.

Did I mention I was taking pictures, so I tried to do one of each to be able to take more pictures when the light was good, and then keep the second to do possibly in the evening or so? :D

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

A parte quello, la mattina è stata abbastanza produttiva e ho fatto foto dei passaggi in cui attaccavo la chiusura e assemblavo e attaccavo la cinghia dello spallaccio.

Ho detto che stavo scattando foto, quindi mi sono concentrata sul fare uno di ciascuna cosa per fare più foto finché c'era luce, in modo da poter fare il secondo alla sera o simili?

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

This is what it looked like at the end of this morning

now the other shoulder strap is also attached, and the second lower strap is half-attached, but I had to stop for dinner.

the back panel is almost done!

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Questo è l'aspetto che aveva alla fine della mattinata

adesso anche l'altro spallaccio è attaccato, e la cinghia sotto è attaccata a metà, ma ho dovuto interrompermi per la cena.

il pannello verso la schiena è quasi finito!

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

I have sewn things on with fishing line and a curved needle, but I doubt that has the look your going for! :-)
Mens work clothes.


earworm in italiano

e durante la cena è stata citata la parola intorno (in contesto generico)

e @Diego Roversi ha pronunciato le parole “per ogni”

e adesso una voce nella mia mente sta canticchiando

“per ogni epsilon, esiste un delta
per ogni ypsilon¹, minor di delta
eeeeffffeee di ypsilon minor di eepsiiilon”

(sapete su che musica, vero?)

(e adesso ce l'avete in testa anche voi, vero?)

¹ y anziché x per ragioni di metrica



food, meat, but the real point is the bread

Dinner this evening was chicken breast with yogurt sauce in pita bread

followed by cleaning every leftover of yogurt sauce with another piece of pita bread

followed by “I still had some pita bread, I could put some raspberry jam on it, right?”

I may have eaten too much pita bread

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

cibo, contiene carne, ma ciò di cui si parla veramente è il pane

La cena di stasera era petto di pollo con salsa allo yogurt in un panino arabo

seguito dalla pulizia accurata di tutti gli avanzi della salsa allo yogurt con un altro mezzo panino arabo

seguito da “ho ancora mezzo panino arabo, potrei metterci della marmellata di lamponi, no?”

Potrei aver mangiato troppo panino arabo.

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cibo, contiene carne, ma ciò di cui si parla veramente è il pane

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cibo, contiene carne, ma ciò di cui si parla veramente è il pane

@LaVi potrei

ma tutto sommato dopo aver fatto quattro passi (40 minuti :D ) non mi sentivo neanche troppo appesantita :D

@LaVi
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

cibo, contiene carne, ma ciò di cui si parla veramente è il pane

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food, meat, but the real point is the bread
@Kermode sounds delicious



Today I have been wondering whether there are mechanical pencils (for 2 mm leads) in the shape of a carpenter pencil, and apparently if they exist they aren't easy to find online.

And now I wonder how hard it would be to take something cheap like eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , take the mechanism out (that's the easy part, I've just checked on mine and it's easy), and then either 3d-print or machine a carpenter pencil-shaped case for it.

(Not that I'd *need* it. I probably would have no use for it. But it would be cool if somebody did it :D )

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Oggi mi son chiesta se esistano dei portamine (per le mine da 2 mm) a forma di matita da muratore / falegname, e a quanto pare se anche esistono non si trovano facilmente online.

E adesso mi sto chiedendo quanto complicato sia prendere qualcosa di economico tipo eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , tirar fuori il meccanismo (questa è la parte facile, ci ho appena provato con la mia ed è banale) e poi stampare 3d o lavorare nel metallo un nuovo corpo di forma piatta.

(Non che mi serva. Non me ne farei niente. Ma sarebbe bello se qualcuno lo facesse :D )



My mother: “we could go to the plant nursery and buy a few flowers”

The flowers @Diego Roversi and I choose: strawberry, raspberry, and they were out of blueberries but they'll probably be there next week

I mean, they *are* flowering plants, aren't they?

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@Kermode yeah, from what I've heard @Diego Roversi wasn't abusive or anything, just firm.

But I didn't stop and listen to even his side of the call, I was busy doing *all of the hard work myself* (I may be exaggerating a bit)

(Or rather, the was the hard work was split is accurate, it's just that it was just maybe 10 minutes of hard work :D )



I may have done it again

my mother invited 3 people for tomorrow. 4 people with her, and 6 people with us (we may or may not spend most of the time with them, but we do plan to eat our share of the food :D )

I may have already prepared 1 kg of rye flour and 0.5 kg of white flour, and have plans for a dough with 1 kg of durum flour this evening. Plus there is a 0.5 kg of white flour dough that will be cooked for dinner this evening.

0.5 kg of flour per person is reasonable, right? :D

#bakingBread

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@Marcos Dione in my defense I have to say that most of this can be easily frozen, or will keep well for a enough days to give us plenty of time to finish the leftovers, I'm way more strict with stuff that is harder to deal with.

I have no idea where empanadas lie on that scale.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

frozen: I guess. Kept for a few days: a) almost never happened to have leftovers of that; and b) the only time I remember is because we lost them to fungus a couple of days later (but only becaiae they were the raw meat variant). Another over cooking, this time by my ex.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

aaaah scusa scusa sabato prossimo! Il 24!
Questo sabato ci sono i mercatini dei bambini proprio su quella via 🥲


TIL: overpass-turbo


Metti che una mattina ti viene il bisogno di avere l'elenco dei capoluoghi di provincia e relative posizioni.

E ti viene in mente che queste informazioni su openstreetmap già ci sono. Come fare a estrarle?

Apro il sito overpass-turbo (overpass-turbo.eu/), e vedo che c'è già un esempio che cerca le fontanelle. Ok, sembra semplice, ma se devo fare qualcosa di più complicato?

Guardo in alto e vedo nel menu "Wizard". Permette di generare query complicate partendo da descrizioni semplici in inglese. Con tanto di esempi di ricerche più complicate. Un veloce giro sulla wiki di openstreetmap per vedere i campi giusti per la query, guardo gli attributi di qualche città a caso per vedere qualche esempio e arrivo a questa:

(place=city or place=town) and (capital=2 or capital=4 or capital=6) in italy

e la query generata è:

[out:json][timeout:25];
// fetch area “italy” to search in
{{geocodeArea:italy}}->.searchArea;
// gather results
(
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
);
// print results
out geom;

Che fondamentalmente vuol dire, città con più di 10.000 abitanti e che siano capoluoghi di provincia(6) / regione(4) /stato(2).

A questo punto il tutto può essere salvato in un file json.


Prossimo passo: usare jq per estrarre solo le informazioni che mi servono.

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Quando ti pagano a byte di codice è imprescindibile inserire nel sorgente l'elenco completo di TUTTI i comuni italiani, con provincia, regione, CAP, prefisso telefonico e coordinate: potrebbe sempre servire.
in reply to Diego Roversi

Nel caso qualcuno fosse curioso. Questo è come estrarre nome e coordinate dall'output, usando jq:

cat province.geojson | jq ".features[] | { name: .properties.name , coord: .geometry.coordinates} " >province.json


I have a piece of cordura with holes cut out in it

I have a hot air station, technically bought for (de)soldering

I want to have a piece of cordura with holes with stable edges

I have no idea what temperature to use

I should wait until there is an adult in the house to supervise me (and grab the fire blanket if needed), right?

#MYOG

(the adult will be here in a few hours)

#MYOG
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ho un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi

Ho una stazione ad aria calda, tecnicamente comprata per (dis)saldare

Voglio avere un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi i cui bordi siano stabili

Non ho idea di che temperatura usare

Forse è meglio se aspetto di avere la supervisione di un adulto (che possa andare a prendere la coperta antincendio se serve), vero?

(l'adulto arriva tra qualche ora)



dream

It was alarm_clock_time minus 10 minutes and a radio somewhere started playing Painkiller, so I was gently¹ woken up

halfway through the song, however, the music stopped, and I realized I had been dreaming it, and I had woken up too much for it to continue.

I was telling @Diego Roversi what had just happened, and the real alarm clock started to ring, and I woke up, this time for real.

¹ FSVO gently, but it worked :D

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sogno

erano le ora della sveglia meno 10 minuti, una radio da qualche parte ha cominciato a suonare Painkiller e sono stata delicatamente¹ svegliata

a metà canzione la musica si è fermata, e mi sono resa conto che la stavo sognando, e mi ero svegliata troppo per continuare a sentirla.

Stavo raccontando a @Diego Roversi cosa era appena successo, è suonata la sveglia vera e mi sono svegliata, stavolta davvero.

¹ per qualche valore di delicatamente, ma era piacevole, ok :D

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sogno

@Alessandro la sveglia vera è una specie di musichetta da videgioco molto vintage composta e programmata da @Diego Roversi per arduino + lo speaker di un vecchio pc :)

++ con lo svegliarsi con il piede giusto con Painkiller però :)

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sogno

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sogno
@filobus @Alessandro @Diego Roversi credo più comincia la vita a muoversi su uno sfondo che si sposta verticalmente, sparando a quasi tutto quello che si muove :D
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Tonight at 5:19 my phone rung. it was my mother's phone number.

The call went something like:

me> hello? hello?
me> hello?
her> what? how?
me> hello?
her> my phone called you as I tried to check the time

luckily @Diego Roversi was reading in bed because he couldn't sleep, and I had just half-opened one eye enough to see the light from his ebook reader (and then closed it again, but had not completely fallen asleep yet), so it wasn't as traumatic as it could have been.

Then this morning we were all in her living room, her phone was on the table, I could see that *she wasn't touching the phone* and her phone called me again!

Should I worry?

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@Kermode @Diego Roversi I have a pope card (actually, a few), I can give it to somebody who is already nearby and ask them to do the exorcism, it sounds more practical :D
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@Kermode @Diego Roversi

this one enricozini.org/blog/2017/vecto… which is indeed a slightly modified version of that one

it comes from Principia Discordiae

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Another small thing that's working today!
Mail sync on @Haiku now work! It was trying to sync a non-existant imap folder, which stopped the process.
in reply to Fabio

... yes, this was posted from Haiku-os, running on an HP ChromeBox 😁


Finally I fixed that little thing in #Confy that bugged me for a while: the search entry now get focus when opened.

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@Matthew Dockrey

yesterday evening, just before sleeping, I watched your custom font wheels video (youtube.com/watch?v=vi81D3YJJi…)

and then I couldn't sleep until I wrote down on a piece of paper two words: Ogham and Roman Cursive

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham (I think you might just *hate* this one, but I hope it's a nice kind of hate :) )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cu…

And then... you do know about Verdurian, right? zompist.com/vergram.html#Alpha…

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10 minutes ago the sun had not set yet, so I started to solder the few bits left so that we could finish the project we had been working on in the afternoon (after buying the last bits we needed this morning).

it is now 21:40, and I've finished soldering 10 minutes ago. It's definitely too dark to do any outside work.

I haven't tested anything, and I've already covered everything in heatshrink (it's all cables and pin headers, nothing expensive in case I have to redo everything from scratch).

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

10 minuti fa il sole non era ancora tramontato, quindi ho iniziato a saldare le ultime cose in modo da poter finire il progetto su cui abbiamo lavorato nel corso del pomeriggio (dopo aver comprato le ultime cose che ci servivano stamattina).

sono le 21:40, ho finito di saldare 10 minuti fa. là fuori fa decisamente troppo buio per lavorare.

Non ho ancora testato niente, e ho già ricoperto tutto di termorestringente (sono solo cavi e pin headers, niente di costoso nel caso in cui debba rifare tutto da capo)

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Anyway, this is what we had been doing during the afternoon, while there was still ligth:

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Comunque, questo è quello che abbiamo fatto ieri pomeriggio, mentre c'era ancora luce:

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

As for the things I soldered yesterday night, half of them aren't in use because the waterproof box we wanted to use is too small :(

We may find another box, or buy one in the next few weeks.

For the time being, we've used some dupont cables to connect the main sensor to the ESP32C3 board, and got an *interesting* behaviour: the board was sending data from the sensor, but it was *always the same value*. Data for the internal battery level sensor was changing at every measurement, as expected.

We opened the stevenson box, changed the sensor with another identical one. same behaviour.

We opened the waterproof box to bring the board inside and do more tests, and found that the dupont cable for the sensor ground was disconnected. But it was still managing to send data, only it was the *wrong* data.

Reconnected the ground, it seems to be working.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Quanto alle cose saldate ieri sera, metà non sono in uso perché la scatoletta stagna che volevamo usare è troppo piccola :(

Forse ne troveremo un'altra, o al massimo ne compreremo una tra qualche settimana.

Per ora abbiamo usato dei cavi dupont per collegare il sensore pricipale alla schedina con ESP32C3, e abbiamo avuto un comportamento *interessante*: la schedina stava inviando i dati presi dal sensore, ma era *sempre lo stesso valore*. I dati del sensore di carica della batteria (interno) cambiavano leggermente ad ogni misura, come atteso.

Abbiamo aperto lo schermo di stevenson, cambiato il sensore con un altro uguale. stesso comportamento.

Abbiamo aperto la scatoletta stagna per portare in casa la schedina e fare ulteriori test, e scoperto che il cavo dupont del ground verso il sensore era scollegato. Ma riusciva comunque a mandare dei dati, solo dati *sbagliati*.

Ricollegato il ground, sembra funzionare.



consumerism, national stereotypes (unconventional)

Leroy Merlin is French. The French are Elves. That explains why we entered the shop mid morning (before 10, I think), and after spending half an hour, surely no more than an hour in there, we left at half past midday.

And also why when we go there we always leave being exhausted, as if our soul had been nibbled upon.

@Diego Roversi had to eat some food while we were in, but it was food we had brought from outside, and never left unattended, so we should be fine, right?

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

consumismo, acquisti non necessari, riferimenti biblici

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consumismo, acquisti non necessari, riferimenti biblici
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Diego Roversi e metti che qualcuno qui in zona vada in Canada in ferie e si porti a casa qualche souvenir, e poi abbia bisogno di aprirlo!


Filed under: a well done, professional job, right?

not pictured: the battery, that is currently being recharged.

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@Beko Pharm I don't see any duct tape on your case, so it's a much better case than mine :D

(mine is temporary. I will probably use it for years, but it is temporary)



POLARVIDE modular jacket


Posted on April 28, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing
A woman with early morning hair wearing a knee-length grey polar fleece jacket; it is closed at the waist with a twine belt that makes the bound front edge go in a smooth curve between the one side of the neck to the other side of the waist and then flare back outwards on the hips. The sleeves are long enough to go over the hands, and both them and the hem are cut

Years ago I made myself a quick dressing gown from a white fleece IKEA throw and often wore it in the morning between waking up and changing into day clothes.

One day I want to make myself a fancy victorian wrapper, to use in its place, but that’s still in the early planning stage, and will require quite some work.

a free cat sitting half asleep on an old couch, with a formerly white piece of fabric draped between the armrest and the seat. A piece of cardboard between two seat pillows provides additional protection from the wind.

Then last autumn I discovered that the taxes I owed to the local lord (who provides protection from mice and other small animals) included not just a certain amount of kibbles, but also some warm textiles, and the dressing gown (which at this time was definitely no longer pristine) had to go.

For a while I had to do without a dressing gown, but then in the second half of this winter I had some time for a quick machine sewing project. I could not tackle the big victorian thing, but I still had a second POLARVIDE throw from IKEA (this time in a more sensible dark grey) I had bought with sewing intents.

The fabric in a throw isn’t that much, so I needed something pretty efficient, and rather than winging it as I had done the first time I decided I wanted to try the Modular Jacket from A Year of Zero Waste Sewing (which I had bought in the zine instalments: the jacket is in the March issue).

After some measuring and decision taking, I found that I could fit most of the pieces and get a decent length, but I had no room for the collar, and probably not for the belt nor the pockets, but I cut all of the main pieces. I had a possible idea for a contrasting collar, but I decided to start sewing the main pieces and decide later, before committing to cutting the other fabric.

As I was assembling the jacket I decided that as a dressing gown I could do without the collar, and noticed that with the fraying-free plastic fleece I didn’t really need the front facings, so I cut those in half lengthwise, pieced them together, and used them as binding to finish the front end.

the back of the worn jacket, other than being clinched in by the belt it is pretty straight.

Since I didn’t have enough fabric for the belt I also skipped the belt loops, but I have been wearing this with random belts and I don’t feel the need for them anyway. I’ve also been thinking about adding a button just above the bust and use that to keep it closed, but I’m still not 100% sure about it.

Another thing I still need to do is to go through the few scraps of fleece that are left and see if I can piece together a serviceable pocket or two.

folding the sleeves back by a good 10 cm to show the hands.

Because of the size of the fabric, I ended up having quite long sleeves: I’m happy with them because they mean that I can cover my hands when it’s cold, or fold them back to make a nice cuff.

If I’ll make a real jacket with this patter I’ll have to take this in consideration, and either make the sleeves shorter or finish the seam in a way that looks nice when folded back.

Will I make a real jacket? I’m not sure, it’s not really my style of outer garment, but as a dressing gown it has already been used quite a bit (as in, almost every morning since I’ve made it :) ) and will continue to be used until too worn to be useful, and that’s a good thing.


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@Friendica Support what license / terms of use is the friendica logo under?

@Fabio pointed me to the SVGs at git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… and git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ; am I correct that they would be under CC0-1.0 as per git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ?

Are there additional term of use on the logo?

Looking at @Fabio 's laptop yesterday we may have agreed that there is an unacceptable lack of hexagons with nested Fs, and I wanted to fix this :D

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@Elena ``of Valhalla''

Sry no SVG.
JPG-PNG are available in all sizes up to 256px I believe.
I even ulpoaded this to git friendica I think, not sure witch versions, every once in a while I retouch something.
Terms of use are CC0 (actually NC) but in the case of friendica anything goes.

The colored circular image is a svg "permafluer", published creative commons by someone else in some CC svg catalogue site. The copy left is from a SVG creative commons site. The friendica base is from a friendica logo itself.
Gimme a day and I look up all the info with links if I can.

Versions of this have been used as canvas for forum profiles, see here to get an idea:
tupambae.org/directory

btw
The image I posted is the background image of this friendica server as you may find if you visite this comment or for example our TOS page:
tupambae.org/tos
:)

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Stickerses


Posted on April 27, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:graphics, topic:stickers
After just a few years of procrastination, I’ve given a wash ofgit-filter-repo to the repository where I keep my hexagonal sticker designs, removed a few failed experiments and stuff with dubious licensing and was able to finally publish it among my public git repositories

This repo includes the template I’m using, most of the stickers I’ve had printed, some that have been published elsewhere and have been printed by other people, as well as some that have never been printed and I may or may not print in the future.

The licensing details are in the metadata of each file, and mostly depend on the logos or cliparts used. Most, but not all, are under a free culture license.

My server is not setup to correctly serve the SVG files, yet: downloading them (from the “plain” links) should work, but I need to fix the content type that is provided. I will probably procrastinate doing it for quite some time, but eventually it will be done. Of course cloning the repository from the public https URL also works.

BRB, need to add MOAR stickerses.


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I've just realized that there is a small container of leftover polenta: should I dress-up in my still-not-finished folk-style dress before reheating it for breakfast?

(nope, it's already being reheated)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

mi sono appena resa conto che c'è una piccola teglia di polenta avanzata: prima di scaldarla per la colazione devo vestirmi di tutto punto col vestito contadino che non ho ancora finito?

(non se ne parla, è già qui, calda)



TIL: in 1846 in Lombardy the mountain provinces had a significantly higher rate of school attendance (93% for Bergamo, 87% for Como, Sondrio and Brescia) than the lowland ones (with a minimum of 50% in Mantova and Pavia).

(I'm not sure whether this is about 1 or 3 years, but either way we're talking very basic elementary schooling: reading, writing and arithmetic)

source: G. Sacchi, Relazione sullo stato dell'istruzione elementare e tecnica in Lombardia durante l'anno 1846, «Annali Universali di Statistica» 1847, vol 13, 180-196, quoted in a 1979 article that I'm too lazy to properly quote O:-)



meanwhile, while browsing *completely random* wikipedia pages, I've found this

“For whether you or your women wear or do not wear pants neither impedes your salvation nor leads to any increase of your virtue.” — Pope Nicholas the Great

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nic…

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TFW you're reading a *fantasy* fanfiction, even if it feels vaguely early modern, and the characters are undressing because it's *that* kind of fanfiction, and — coherent with the original work — a male character has removed his shirt before his trousers, and after removing those too they still have their smallclothes on and your mind goes “wait a second, are you *sure* that's accurate for the way the rest of the clothes are depicted???”


intanto su #trenord. attivi un biglietto da carnet su un browser, dagli altri browser non lo si vede. (avvisavano che non lo si vede da app).

e poi, ti rimane bloccata l'attivazione di altri biglietti, spero solo fino alla scadenza del primo, perche' non vuoi anche prendere il treno del ritorno, vero?

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Comandante Virgola :snwfn: @ciccillo sì, ma onestamente come opzione sarebbe possibile anche con le macchinette, senza bisogno di avere personale in tutte le stazioni

e invece no, ti costringono a passare da un sito che non funziona

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Comandante Virgola :snwfn: @ciccillo per carità, il biglietto base te lo fanno

solo che vuol dire dover arrivare in stazione in anticipo, litigare con le macchinette, ecc. ecc.

ovvero te lo rendono non impossibile, ma *scomodo* quanto basta

e ovviamente, lo paghi di più, perché non hai lo sconto del carnet



If 8 people are coming for a festive lunch, almost 5 kg is a perfectly reasonable amount of flour to bake into bread-like substances, right?

(I have reasons. some of it is omnivore¹ kibble, i.e. knackebrot, that I'm making mostly for myself for the next month or so. some I expect to be taken away together with the leftovers, and some freezes just nicely.)

¹ as opposed to obligate carnivores

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eight (8) trays of knackebrot have been rolled on the pasta machine¹, cooked, and are now drying in the oven at a lower temperature.

it took two people², and we're both dead :D

¹ This. Is. ITALY. :D
² I don't know how to use the pasta machine on my own, without needing a minimum of three hands (unless I use the electric motor)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

otto (8) teglie di knackebrot sono state stese con la macchinetta della pasta¹, cotte e stanno asciugando nel forno a bassa temperatura.

ci sono volute due persone² e siamo entrambi morti :D

¹ This. Is. ITALY. :D
² non sono capace di usare la macchinetta della pasta da sola, senza aver bisogno come minimo di tre mani (a meno di usare il motore elettrico)

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the cartridge pleated skirt is almost done, only requires a patch on a small tear I couldn't cut around, but I need some sewing thread in a different colour from what I already have.

the bodice is done, I've worn it today, it's good (other than a small change I want to make to the pattern for the next time).

When I'll have some time with no rain at a time when I can take pictures I will, and then there will be a blog post.

So, now, I suddenly found myself with no #handsewing project in progress¹, and that can't do!

¹ ok, there is one. I don't want to pick that one up right now

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@ossimorosa @Comandante Virgola :snwfn: vabbé, quello è il modo di manipolare il pezzo di stoffa, ma poi la si monta a forma di camicia abbastanza normale :D
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@Bomkatt thanks!

The honeycombing is also pleasurable to do, it's just the snaps that I hate sewing :D

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