I would hazard a guess that the vast majority of people who have ever had to enter in a "subnet mask" into their network settings have no idea what it means, much less the amazingly powerful and beautifully simple solution to the problem it solves.  In this post, we'll peel back the mystery, talk a little binary and basic computer operations, and hopefully do it in a way that even a non-technical person could understand.

So yeah, was a little bit excited for some new Cardcaptor Sakura after all these years.  This time, Xiaolang gets some of Tomoyo's handywork in a new battle costume.  Lots of nods to his outfit in the original series.  Having recently made the outfit from the original series and a hoodie, of course needed to make the Clear Card series outfit.

Catching up on some old pictures, here's some construction pictures of a hoodie I made for this winter.  After doing Xiaolang's battle costume, I wanted to try a hoodie design based off it for more everyday wear.

Catching up on some older pictures I never posted.  Here's some construction pictures of the Jacket I made for Lann from World of Final Fantasy.

Catching up on some old pictures, these are from 2017.  After making a Patamon Kigu for my wife, I figured I should make something for myself.  I really liked the idea of having Gabumon as a two-piece design, since he kinda a dinosaur that wears a fur coat.

Went with fleece for everything, but I guess I could always remake the top as fur if I wanted to.  But this is a kigu, so I think fleece is more appropriate.

This weekend I wrote a Javascript AAMVA Driver License/Identification Card Parser for use with USB 2D Barcode Scanners.  The result was an interesting reading through specs for the PDF 417 and DMV websites, but I did get a rough proof of concept together to at least show it works.  I spent a fair amount of time searching the interwebs for something out there to do this, but most all the libraries I did find were more about scanning/decoding the image of the barcode itself (like with a webcam).  I didn't need any of that as I was using a hardware …

Having made the Rashinban board, it was time to work on Xiaolang's ceremonial battle robes from Cardcaptor Sakura. 

I got a chance to play with the new Universal laser printers at TechShop.  My next Cosplay is going to be Xiaolang Li from Cardcaptor Sakura, so I wanted to make his Rashinban board.

So Bandai released the official version of Taichi's Googles from Digimon Adventure 01 and I had to have them.  I've done Tai's outfit from 01 as well as the school jacket and orange shirt from Tri.  Of course, at the start of Adventure 02, Tai gives his googles to Daisuke after his are broken.  Since I already had the googles, that means my next outfit needed to be Daisuke/Davis from Adventure 02!

I made Taichi's Jacket based on the promotional images before the first episodes were released.  Once the first episodes came out, I knew my next cosplay would be Tai's casual outfit from episodes 3 & 4.