#craft
8 stories
Enjoy a Hobby Without Progress Scores
How to do a hobby without tracking progress.
Wellbeing Magazine · 1m
The Kashmiri artisan who turned lake weeds into art
Simran Irshad found her cheapest raw material floating in the water everyone else calls a nuisance.
Malay Mail · 1m · 1 like
The 19-year-old carving Kelantan's shadow puppets
A teenager from Pasir Puteh learned puppet-making by watching his uncle, and now takes orders from across the state.
Malay Mail · 2m
Prop masters get their own awards night
The MacGuffin Awards handed out third-annual honors for the objects that build movie worlds.
Variety · 1m
Stop calling yourself an artisanal programmer
A word swap turned careful, hand-written code into a hobby, and the people who care lost the title of engineer.
Purplesyringa · 2m
Carmack: hand-written code is becoming a martial art
John Carmack thinks careful hand-coding is heading where swordsmanship went, from a battlefield skill to a hobby you practice for love.
X (formerly Twitter) · 1m
Fuck it, make it anyway
A developer watches AI flatten the craft he loves, then finds the only path that still feels like his.
Joelotter · 2m
How Ann Sacks turned a market find into tile royalty
A Portland bungalow, a factory where hands touch every tile nine times, and four rules for picking tile you will still like in ten years.
Naturallydannyseo · 2m