Yarns, fibers, and fabrics. You have more in common with the weavers of yesteryear than you realize. In this expedition into the past of fiber arts, we'll explore how our coding art is the continuation of our ancestors at the loom, how you can learn lessons from their patterns, and maybe a thing or two about that nice sweater you're wearing.

I'll share stories about how fiber arts influenced some technological advances that we take for granted. Cryptography (knitting encoded messages into sweaters), mathematics (making three-dimensional shapes impossible any other way), and computing (the first programs were on 80-thread-wide wooden punch cards for Jaquard looms). I want to show users how fiber arts still share deep parallels to modern coding by creating a React app using a knitting pattern as a spec.