Last year I attended Bond, where one of the speakers pointed out how capitalism has invaded our language: “it’s not a hobby, it’s a ‘side hustle'”. It’s true for me, which I think is one of the reasons I love sewing: it’s so clearly not a side hustle.
I Can’t Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money
Tonight I installed and successfully ran Stitch Composer — a Windows application — on MacOS using Wine.
This is truly the future.
It is possible that a user might not want to go without a service used by 2.3bn others, but also that the world would be better off if the service did not exist at all.
Long day at work today, felt pretty depleted when I got home. And yet when I sat down at the sewing machine, three hours just vanished. I’m continually surprised how rejuvenating creation is.
Holy crap, the addition of categories to micro.blog is great. I almost went with WordPress for @multithreaded just to have those, glad I convinced myself I could always switch later if I really needed them. Nice job, @manton!
I’ve been sewing more lately, so I started a microblog dedicated to that: @multithreaded (also at https://multithreaded.fashion).
Currently reading: 84K by Claire North, ISBN: 9780316316804 📚
git config core.autocrlf auto on Windows side; core.autocrlf input on WSL side and… it just sort of works like I expect.
Needed to replace my aging personal computer, decided to dip my toe in the Windows world again. WSL on Windows feels a little like black magic.
