Belarius

@belarius

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Belarius @belarius12/27/2023, 7:01 PM

nortti OH1CAU @nortti

godspeed you! yuri warrior @citriccenobite12/25/2023, 12:23 AM

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

15 minutes ago my sister came up and was like "hey you wanna see me tie my shoes cool" and then showed me this web 1.0 ass site this dude named ian has been running for 20 years. he invented his own shoelace knot. dudes fucking ROCK

#Dudes rock

godspeed you! yuri warrior @citriccenobite12/25/2023, 1:18 AM

the ian knot kind of whips ass actually

Belarius @belarius12/27/2023, 7:01 PM

I first ran into the Ian knot via an early Numberphile video. Controversially, it's unclear whether Ian Fieggen is the original inventor of this knot-tying procedure, but I'm happy to call it the Ian knot because he seems to have come by it independently, because his site is certainly the main resource for the knot in the Internet era, and because I remain entirely charmed by his website.

#knots #Ian knot #Ian Fieggen #Professor Shoelace

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Hazel Rose Dyne @HordeMommy12/25/2023, 1:03 AM

I loved this site so much in middle and high school, I would walk everywhere and wear the soles out of my chucks hoping in vain that someone would notice the cool lacing.

godspeed you! yuri warrior @citriccenobite12/25/2023, 1:13 AM

OH i wish i had known about this in high school bc i would have done. The same thing w my chucks lmao

thank you ian, for your service 🫡

stu @stu12/25/2023, 2:58 AM

remembering the time i had to duck tape my chuck soles back on to get through the day, good times

Gravity Pike @gravity-pike12/25/2023, 8:52 PM

haha, holy shit, I've been using "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot" for the past 15 years, ever since I got that pair of boots where the laces were a bit too long and a bit too slippery and kept on undoing themselves.

I think this was the website that also taught me that I was just plain tying my shoelaces wrong for more than a decade - the bow should sit horizontally across your shoe. If it's diagonal or vertical, you've done part of it backwards, and it's a much weaker knot.

godspeed you! yuri warrior @citriccenobite12/25/2023, 10:16 PM

yeah ive actually been like, thinking about learning new knots bc my work/walkaround shoes are sooooo hard to keep tied due to a pair of pretty thick laces. so i just tried the ian knot on them and it works pretty much perfect!!! it's amazing.

Keiya the Cyber-Kitty @keiya12/30/2023, 3:43 AM

What's even more wild is that while this still has a strong "web 1.0" flavor it actually does adapt to mobile phones perfectly. Proof that responsive design doesn't have to be just for "apps".

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev4/3/2024, 5:33 PM

Now THIS is a website!

... I might try that shoelace knot brb

godspeed you! yuri warrior @citriccenobite4/3/2024, 5:43 PM

it works relly well if you want my opinion! i wear hiking shoes to work and the laces are pretty hard to keep tied but the ian knot keeps them tied nicely.

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev4/3/2024, 5:46 PM

I figured out years ago how to tie the traditional shoelace slipknot the right way around so the loops are parallel to the lace and that's been Good Enough but it still occasionally jams and for-real knots when I undo them

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Jaxsun @jaxsun12/25/2023, 6:47 AM

In high school I taught myself the Ian knot, and right after I tried to tie my shoes the old way to compare the speed, and I couldn't do it. The Ian knot instantaneously replaced all my shoe tying knowledge and I haven't looked back since.

Komodo (Arguably)@arguablykomodo12/25/2023, 12:58 PM

i have been using ian's secure knot for years now and it has yet to accidentally untie, not even once

godspeed you! yuri warrior @citriccenobite12/25/2023, 1:01 PM

yeah im considering switching honestly. my work shoes are hiking boots with really thick laces and they're constantly coming untied

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