# slip (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover slip. Page: Feed: --- ## [To mesh or not to mesh 11, combining large and standard eyelets](https://alessandrina.com/2026/08/16/to-mesh-or-not-to-mesh-11-combining-large-and-standard-eyelets/) _2026-08-16 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ To mesh or not to mesh 10: more large eyelet variations provides a review of information in some of my previous posts, and links to information to achieve the combinations shared by others. The direction of transfers is marked in many of my charts with cyan cells for transfers to the left, and magenta for Continue reading To mesh or not to mesh 11, combining large and standard eyelets ## [Dear Summer: I Haven’t Written in Months](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/dear-summer-i-havent-written-in-months) _2026-08-13 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ Dear Summer, ## [Permission Slip: Your Life Is Not an Interruption](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/permission-slip-your-life-is-not) _2026-08-09 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ You are allowed to make dinner before you finish the chapter. ## [More on brioche, geometric shapes knit with tuck setting](https://alessandrina.com/2026/08/08/more-on-brioche-geometric-shapes-knit-with-tuck-setting/) _2026-08-08 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ Most tuck patterning is based on designs with lots of black pixels serving as background for white pixels in bars that are generally a single cell in width, and on Japanese machines, no more than 4 rows in height, followed by black cells above them to knit tuck loops and the last knit stitch in Continue reading More on brioche, geometric shapes knit with tuck setting ## [The Life Around the Book](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/the-life-around-the-book) _2026-08-05 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ A book does not come from nowhere, despite the industry’s fondness for pretending manuscripts emerge fully dressed from a tasteful mist. ## [Permission Slip: You Don’t Have to Become a Brand](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/permission-slip-you-dont-have-to) _2026-08-01 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ You do not have to become a brand, which should be obvious but apparently needs saying now that the internet has convinced half the literary world to behave like underfunded lifestyle divisions of themselves. ## [Ladders meet slip and hold, go around to form new shapes](https://alessandrina.com/2026/07/30/ladders-meet-slip-and-hold-go-around-to-form-new-shapes/) _2026-07-30 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ The concept for this post began in 2022, and as so often happens, I got distracted by some other rabbit hole and came across its draft while looking for another previous post. In November 2025, a similar approach was used to produce modified hexagons to achieve automated star shapes. The basic steps 1: Put in Continue reading Ladders meet slip and hold, go around to form new shapes ## [Forty, With Garden Shears](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/forty-with-garden-shears) _2026-07-29 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ I turned forty yesterday, though forty has not yet done anything interesting enough to earn its reputation. ## [The Gentle Knife: Your Book Needs Witnesses](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/the-gentle-knife-your-book-needs) _2026-07-28 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ The Gentle Knife: Your Book Needs Witnesses ## [Dear Summer: Why Do Publishers Make You Do All the Work Except Printing Now?](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/dear-summer-why-do-publishers-make) _2026-07-25 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ Because publishing has changed, marketing has gotten uglier, margins have thinned into something resembling deli paper, attention has become harder to reach, and a great deal of labor that once looked optional for authors is now treated as part of the job whether anyone has the decency to say so clearly. ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/t2viwq2jMXSG) _2026-07-25 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [Writing When Your Life Is Not Quiet](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/writing-when-your-life-is-not-quiet) _2026-07-21 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ Most writing advice has a silence problem, which is a polite way of saying it was often designed for lives with doors, supportive partners, bags of money, or at least fewer people asking where the clean socks live. ## [The Mainentance of Love](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/the-mainentance-of-love) _2026-07-21 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ We are hopelessly enchanted by beginnings: first dates, first kisses, the first time someone reaches for your hand as if their body made the decision before their brain could file the paperwork. ## [To mesh or not to mesh 10: reviewing mock filet designs](https://alessandrina.com/2026/07/20/to-mesh-or-not-to-mesh-10-reviewing-mock-filet-designs/) _2026-07-20 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ One of the many differences between automated machine-knit transfer lace and hand-knit lace is that the alternate direction of transfers in machine-knit lace occurs after the first is completed and followed by knit rows separating the eyelets, so there is always a slight shift in horizontal lines formed by them. In hand-knitting or when stitches Continue reading To mesh or not to mesh 10:… ## [Field Notes from the Small Press Swamp: What “Community” Actually Costs](https://srstewart.substack.com/p/field-notes-from-the-small-press) _2026-07-18 · Some Stewart · If You Give a Girl a Book_ Literary community is a beautiful phrase until someone has to stack the chairs, answer the emails, update the flyer, and pretend the microphone is not actively auditioning for a nervous breakdown. ## [Revisiting adapting Studio punch card simple lace cards for use on Brother.](https://alessandrina.com/2026/07/06/revisiting-adapting-studio-punch-card-simple-lace-cards-for-use-on-brother/) _2026-07-06 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ Ways to modify electronic and punch card published transfer lace designs looked at some ways to achieve lace designs on Brother models with single knit rows between transfer segments, which influences the number of total knit and lace carriage passes, changes the appearance of the spaces between the resulting eyelets, the height of the finished Continue reading Revisiting adapting Studio punch… ## [Vibe-coded software is junk food](/blog/vibe-coded-software-is-junk-food/) _2026-07-01 · Mishoo · Lisperator.net — Mihai Bazon's blog_ I was thinking about this while cooking some meal. I m not good at it, so I try to follow a recipe. I use fresh ingredients, wash and chop them carefully, watch the boiling pan oftenly so I don t overcook. Maybe too often, because I don t really know what I m doing. The result isn t necessarily great, but it s better than fast food, industrially processed food and sometimes even restaurant… ## [2D, 3D shapes and more on their possible automation](https://alessandrina.com/2026/06/28/2d-3d-shapes-and-more-on-their-possible-automation/) _2026-06-28 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ IN PROGRESS Revisiting wisteria 3D shapes and their possible automation, reviewed a collection of blog posts, including repeat options that formed open, highly textured knits, with ladders, eyelets, and sometimes added patterning. This repeat forms a more compact, textured surface with none of the large, open spaces in those knits, only the eyelets that form Continue reading 2D, 3D shapes and more… ## [More fabrics with knit bed tuck patterning 2](https://alessandrina.com/2026/06/28/more-fabrics-with-knit-bed-tuck-patterning-2/) _2026-06-28 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ Tuck lace knits require specific needle arrangements to form properly. Tucking on needles intended to be empty will keep building up loops in fixed locations, potentially resulting in interesting carriage jams and yarn formations. End needle selection is canceled. The following are typical published illustrations as found in punch card volumes. The same repeats intended Continue reading More… ## [Ways to modify electronic and punch card published transfer lace designs](https://alessandrina.com/2026/06/18/ways-to-modify-electronic-and-punch-card-published-transfer-lace-designs/) _2026-06-18 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ Recently, in the Machine Knitting Facebook Group, a post by Jeannette/eKnitter describing her method with an associated YouTube video on Transforming a Brother Stitch World Lace Pattern sent me down a new-to-me, what-happens-if-rabbit hole. Results for any lace designs vary considerably based on the yarn used and the number of rows of plain knit planned Continue reading Ways to modify electronic… ## [Geometric shapes in drop stitch lace 5, combined techniques](https://alessandrina.com/2026/05/29/geometric-shapes-in-drop-stitch-lace-5-combined-techniques/) _2026-05-29 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ Whatever the goal in DIY, when automating designs, black pixels or punched holes are selected and knit, while white pixels or unpunched holes are not selected, and used to produce textured, color-patterned knits, or serve as guides to added actions when combined with the knit carriage cam settings. Depending on the structure, there may be Continue reading Geometric shapes in drop stitch lace 5,… ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mryNj90gHpKU) _2026-05-29 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [What I would change in Common Lisp](/blog/what-i-would-change-in-common-lisp/) _2026-05-25 · Mishoo · Lisperator.net — Mihai Bazon's blog_ Should the CL standard ever be revised, I would advocate for these two mildly incompatible changes: 1. eval-when The default compiler policy should be to evaluate each toplevel expression as if it were wrapped in: (eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute) ...) I understand the value of this construct, after years of using Lisp and bootstrapping my own compiler, but for a beginner I… ## [Single bed slip stitch vs ruching 2](https://alessandrina.com/2026/05/16/single-bed-slip-stitch-vs-ruching-2/) _2026-05-16 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ IN PROGRESS Single bed slip stitch vs ruching included a highly textured sample with a 64X96 repeat that could serve as the start of subsequent explorations. The plan was to introduce FI or FI-like patterning to the fold areas of the design. However, those areas must be knit in slip stitch as well, otherwise the Continue reading Single bed slip stitch vs ruching 2 ## [Fair isle experiments 2](https://alessandrina.com/2026/05/08/fair-isle-experiments-2/) _2026-05-08 · Alessandrina · alessandrina.com_ Present software makes it easy to explore designs, in color or BW, meeting download or punching requirements, before any actual knitting takes place. The digital explorations, and printing them tiled in a larger format than on our screens, can help to visualize whether the results, when tiled in repeat, meet our preferences or require further Continue reading Fair isle experiments 2 ## [CopIMAP - IMAP/Maildir library for Common Lisp](/blog/copimap-imap-maildir-library-for-common-lisp/) _2025-12-10 · Mishoo · Lisperator.net — Mihai Bazon's blog_ In what now seems like a previous life, I wrote a IMAP library for Perl ( Net::IMAP::Client ). It got somewhat popular and I m glad to see it s still being maintained — and even more glad that it isn t me who maintains it :) Around this time last year I wanted to reply to a bunch of emails from Emacs, and had setup OfflineIMAP to download my GMail inbox to a local folder, so that I could use mu4e.… ## [SLip runs QUEEN (Lisp chess library), and a PGN viewer in browser](/blog/slip-runs-queen-lisp-chess-library-and-a-pgn-viewer-in-browser/) _2025-12-01 · Mishoo · Lisperator.net — Mihai Bazon's blog_ In the past couple of months I ve added some more CL support ( some bitwise operators, some multi-dimensional array, and some reader customization), so one day I was able to load my QUEEN chess library and play a bit with it in the browser. It s now included in the build, so you can try this in the REPL : \[ read more... \] ## [SLip news - more Common Lisp!](/blog/slip-news---more-common-lisp/) _2025-10-05 · Mishoo · Lisperator.net — Mihai Bazon's blog_ SLip is an aspiring Common Lisp environment in the browser. Since my earlier post in April , I wanted to replace the object system with Closette , as it s more complete than TinyCLOS. Rather than hammering down Closette to fit it into my limited Lisp, I thought I would add sufficient Common Lisp support so that we re able to compile Closette as is, or at least almost. This is the glorious commit… ## [SLip — a Lisp system in your browser](/blog/slip-a-lisp-system-in-your-browser/) _2025-04-12 · Mishoo · Lisperator.net — Mihai Bazon's blog_ I ve put some love into my browser-based Lisp system . This project is so old that I could actually say it s new and nobody would know. I just let it rot for something like 12 years, but since I revamped Ymacs recently, I wanted to fix the “IDE”, which was broken; and then I got carried away. Before reading further, if you are familiar with Common Lisp and Emacs/SLIME, check out this fine REPL!… ## [Common Lisp socket client - reconnect on failure](/blog/common-lisp-socket-client---reconnect-on-failure/) _2025-02-03 · Mishoo · Lisperator.net — Mihai Bazon's blog_ I m working on an IMAP client for Common Lisp. Details about that in a future post, but I d like to share here a few bits of code that I had to dig for. The CL socket tutorials that I could find focus on how to connect to a server, fetch some data and then disconnect. In my case, however, the connection is supposed to be long lived. There s a thread that continuously reads data from the server (it… ## [Ymacs: Twig/Django mode and other news](/blog/ymacs:-twig-django-mode-and-other-news/) _2024-09-23 · Mishoo · Lisperator.net — Mihai Bazon's blog_ As I find myself writing code in Ymacs sometimes, I wrote a mode suitable for editing Twig/Django templates. It can be enabled with M-x twig\_html\_mode (the dogfood init code will auto-enable it for buffers coming from web-mode if the filename contains .twig ). While working on this (in itself, of course) I fixed a bunch of other issues related to indentation and syntax highlighting. JS mode will…