Morgan Makes

Git is a very useful tool in my life as a programmer. It allows me to collaborate with peers, contribute to open source, create NPM packages (etc), and just have a nice neat place to store my code. And that's what it's meant for, storing code. But what if we just used it for everything? At least everything that might need communicative collaboration--which, besides code, can range from a group project essay, to a gallery of art, to a web series. There are so many uses of collaboration software, which is one of the main reasons we have things like Google Drive and Microsoft Office. But I hate Google, and I hate Microsoft. And Office costs money if I remember correctly, and at least Google Drive isn't a great place to keep public projects because it exposes your email to everyone who sees the file. I could go on and on about reasons not to use either of these products, but the point is, I'd rather use git. GitHub is currently full of projects that are related to fields ou...

As you may know, for my wedding I sewed the Cypress Dress from Mood Sewciety for my spouse. Overall I had a good time of it, and it's certainly a pattern I would recommend--at least for those who are able to either understand not-quite-clear pattern instructions or just figure out a way to do what you want to do with it. It's not the most beginner-friendly pattern, at least from a documentation perspective, but if you've sewn dresses before (or, like me, this is your first dress but you've sewn both tops and skirts), you'll probably be able to do it even though they don't tell you everything you need to do. Here are some notes on how I sewed it, and some tips that might make it easier for others. What I did differently First, I Googled how to take away the tit darts from the pattern. My spouse isn't particularly busty, so I had a feeling the pattern as is would look similar on them to men's underwear on me. I ended up not fully following the instructio...