Barbara: Live coding languages for quilters

I recently picked up a cheap sewing machine to attempt to make some covers for a foam mattress I cut up to put in the back of a truck for camping. Sewing is super interesting and a little intimidating to get started with, but once you get the machine setup and start making some basic things it's really rewarding. I'm still very new to the world but I find myself inspecting every sewn thing I pick up -- backpacks, bathroom travel bags, pillowcases, clothing, etc.

It re-orients your relationship to the construction of so many products that you take for granted. Everything that is sewn is up for repair or upgrades. It's a really cool hobby and if you have a tinkerers or DIY streak to you I highly suggest trying it out. Check out the MYOG reddit to get inspiration.

Sadly their Heroku dyno has fallen over. It's open source and works locally though.

Old Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLaMCr8g0n4

Github: https://github.com/kitzeller/barbara

Would be cool if you could export actual sewing/cutting patterns, otherwise it's just a grammer for making square pictures.

Stand back I’m about to say something nice about Perl. This reminds me of the book “higher order Perl” which has quilting patterns on the cover: https://hop.perl.plover.com/cover.html

Misread as "for quitters", imagined a language that gave you encouraging messages for each syntax error.

"I'm sorry but 'printhrglf' is not a function. You're doing so well though, keep trying!"