path: root/IDEAS.org

* Nice mailing lists

- GH-style user/organization creation
- Every user/organization can create mailing lists
- Mailing lists have a web UI
- The mailing list UI can be completely customized to look like microblogging, blogs, comment systems, etc.
- max n messages over m days feature. n=0, don't send me emails. n=1, send me a digest every m days. n>=2, stop at n-1, then wait until the m period is over to send me a digest.

* Terminal mail client

- Easy set up of common mail accounts (perhaps using mbsync, notmuch, mu, etc.)
- Sane defaults
- Markdown email (write email as Markdown, send as plain text + HTML)
- Probably https://jmap.io/ can make implementing this easier

* Userland WASM Linux distro

- Bootstrap a Linux distro to run on WASM
- Should be able to run as a non-privileged user, installed in the user's home directory
- Focused on userland programs, not a full OS
- Should be able to run on non-POSIX filesystems
- Could replace Docker/containers for developers
- Similar to https://github.com/WAVM/Wavix

* Extensible lightweight markup language

- A language similar to AsciiDoc...
- But with a well-defined AST
- Complex nested lists
- Styling of code blocks (highlighting, user input, replaceable...)
- See https://github.com/jgm/djot / https://github.com/opendevise/asciidoc-parsing-lab/

* Streaming DB

That's probably https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize , but it's not OSS.

- Simple relational database
- Can act as replication target of other databases
- Supports a limited SQL subset that can be easily reasoned about functional dependencies
- Can stream efficiently the results of an SQL query (e.g. keep a query running and receive new/modified rows)
- Supports efficient replication of a subset of a database (initial checkpoint + streaming or batched updates)
- Functional dependencies could be used to create materialized views *and* indexes

* CRUD framework

- https://github.com/alexpdp7/v2f
- https://github.com/alexpdp7/zqxjkcrud

A completely declarative SQL CRUD framework

- CRUD definition is done through SQL objects (schemas, views, etc.)
- Permissions
- Row auditing
- Multiple components
  -  Server-side HTML frontend
  -  REST API
- Commercial frontend for design

* Key escrow for everyone

- Easy-to-use key escrow/secret sharing
- Provide emergency recovery of passwords, keys, 2FA, etc.

* SQL2

See https://github.com/EvgSkv/logica

- A new language that compiles to SQL
- Handles RDBMS differences
- Makes queries composable (e.g. declare a query object, then add paging/sorting, for framework usage)
- Declarative join via foreign key constraint names
- Better ordering for code completion (e.g. FROMs first)

* Parallel execution framework

- A tool to run stuff such as CI builds which need sophisticated parallelization
- Create differently sized resource pools (for CPU-bound tasks, "API"-bound, etc.)
- Local execution of workflows on a workstation, remote execution on a CI server
- Handle task dependencies and artifact passing from parent to child tasks
- Capture stdout/stderr of tasks, allow viewing in realtime
- Timestamp stdout/stderr for crude profiling
- Implement a CI system on top?

* Random review experiment

I want to review all my blog posts (~1000) for formatting, broken links, etc.
I do not want to keep a list of the blog posts I have reviewed.
If I review n posts at random every t time period, what is the probability over time of reviewing p% of posts?

Create a website to run this experiment.

* ActivityPub reverse proxy

Run the reverse proxy on your domain so you can "duplicate" your identity on your own domain

* Statically-typed AST transform-friendly language

- A Haskell/Rusty language, but with GC and nice compiler errors.
- First-class support for AST transforms- both one-off (apply this transform to the source code and commit the change) and ongoing (define AST transforms to run as part of the compilation process).
- Maybe such language would never need reflection, so refactoring would be very safe.

* SQL Query tool

- ipython notebook style interface
- Backend + multiple frontends
  -  HTML/JS Frontend
  -  Curses frontend
  -  Native GUIs frontends
- Smart join completion

* HTML/JS only browser engine

- Use an existing JS engine to implement a browser that can parse HTML and execute JS, but which has no concept of graphics
- Could be used to implement a text HTML browser that can access the modern web
- Extensible and scriptable, to generate "article mode" scripts, scrapers, and "API proxies"

* Presentation tool

- A tool to edit reveal.js-style slides
- But also record and do basic audio editing
- So it can help with timing/pacing, and even generate a nice video
- Optional mode to limit slides to "hero images" and a reduced number of words per page. See [[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html][We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint]]
- Teleprompter/good speaker notes mode

* Touch controller/meeting controller/desktop shortcuts

- API server to control Google Meet (mute, etc.)
- Use a USB gamepad to mute in videoconferences, etc
- Small webapp for touch interface in phone
- See https://github.com/alexpdp7/meet-controller

* Scalable personal cloud

1..n node VM/container hosting platform

- ZFS storage (use https://github.com/marcan/takeover.sh for easy set up of a ZFS mirror root system)
- Automation ready (Ansible, Salt, Foreman, etc.)
- Monitoring friendly
- Apt for single public IP
  - Integrated DNS/DHCP
  - VPN interfaces
  -  Reverse proxies

* Ecosystem for mountable e-ink displays with wireless charging and magnets

- For example, a small e-ink tablet that you can attach to a wireless charger with magnets in your fridge, with an always-on display of a shopping list, and a microphone to add new items.
- The tablet is completely optional, can be replaced by a different device, etc.
- How to have flexibility, such as different form factors and still provide a pleasant and pretty experience? (e.g. can you attach displays of different sizes to the same fridge and have it usable and look good?)

* C64 Roguelike

* Software development book ( https://github.com/alexpdp7/wakat )

* Pure HTML5 decentralized IM system

https://letsconvene.im/
https://github.com/alexpdp7/imnei

- Uses web push
- Conversations are URLs to be shared
- "User identity" is a private URL to be shared to handle multi-device
- End-to-end encryption
- Can have WebRTC audio/video
- Anyone could run its own instance, as it is clientless there is no friction to have multiple providers
- Broadcast channels to be a pseudo-social network

* Federated real-time communications using open protocols https://github.com/alexpdp7/frtcuop

* Deterministic embeddable simple language for calculator and notebooks

https://github.com/alexpdp7/plankalkul/ , that deprecated https://github.com/alexpdp7/pdp7_calc/ .