The boom loom boss was a winner of the 2025 Core77 Design Award for Toys and Play.
It's like an analog computer of weaving.
If you have any experience with weaving you will understand the importance of shed formation. The key innovation is the heddle mechanism which affords great efficiency with weft pattern making through rotation of a pattern bar allowing the weaver to focus on other variables like yarn selection or design sequence. There is even a web app pattern picker to plan out designs developed with the help of a mathematician [1]
Perhaps other similar ideas might be something like tablet weaving [2] or Der Weberknecht [3]
The primary difference is the quick prep and setup time with the boom loom and it's near instant to develop modular samplers [4]
If anyone knows of any other hacking mechanical weaving machines like the boom loom; please share!
Why not just mechanical turk the codebase? Lotsa jobs even with LLM augmentation at current state.
Where is the long term thinking of utility vs cost?
Until AI can solve its own energy generation issues, the hype is gross.
Thankfully I'll be long dead (hopefully) before a local AQI > 500 is considered the new normal common good trade for high fidelity personalized deep fake pr0n
or the cure for cancer at US healthcare billable rates.
>"All of our future books will involve AI."
>It is antithetical to the premise of the book (classic programming projects!) that they agreed to publish.
I hope this trend is not industry wide.
A publisher chasing fads and trends over enduring quality, so sad. I wish I knew who the publisher was to avoid but I can foresee their pivot to AI authors with titles like "From Zero to Hero, ChatGPT 5.2 Top Prompting Secrets for Dummies"
Glad this story got on HN, it moved the heart and I hope it spreads in the little openings of our lives. Nothings perfect, but day by day, more kindness and care, we can share https://youtu.be/wlpcFnOPH2k?si=C1Wa1cviJMa1zlYm
Thank you, finally a SRS implementation I can use for my plain text files. Very nice! I had Gemini make a deck from https://github.com/eudoxia0/hashcards , hashcard_tutorial.md and after correcting my deck to account for escaping the < and > with \< and \>; on the second run ($ hashcards drill --card-limit=10 ./)dealt me all the correct cards, like a self QA
I really like the keyboard shortcut of space and 1,2,3,4 for making deck reviewing quick work.
>transparent leadership. In my book, a good leader ...
I practice this in my day job, as in that is the default mode for continued employment.
Not sure how these practices are new. I wonder if it is a generational thing.