A Foolish Quest: Creating Knitting Patterns Using JavaScript
summary
Built a customizable knitting pattern generator in JavaScript (ported from Ruby) that takes user gauge and desired circumference and emits cast-on counts, yarn amounts and row instructions. Hard constraints are rounding to motif multiples and unit conversion between inches/cm, so the app repeatedly chooses between e.g. 88 vs 92 stitches and produces fits off by ~0.3–2.5 inches; users enter bad gauges, code is rewritten multiple times and hats still require manual tuning.
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- 0:00Start
- 4:34Everything possible went wrong!
- 5:23Actual objects programming
- 9:47Fun quirks Customer service sucks
- 18:10CUSTOM HAT PATTERN APP
- 19:113 problems
- 23:19Unit conversions
- 24:41Domain knowledge
- 25:49What actually went wrong?
- 26:16Every person is an edge case
- 26:32It wasn't actually small
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