Maps for the internet
What is space? What is direction?
This section doubles as a lab and concept notebook.
What is space? What is direction?
I'm not very interested in the current wave of hype, but here's some things I would make if I was:
I'll have to start with myself. Think about layouts, customizability. Then find general abstractions over data that let people put together their own thing. Will need to standardize APIs.
For poetry: (serif, highlighted lines, show next line on arrow press)
From xh, comes the idea of a new standard for webpages, an internet canvas. A digital medium with the expressive ease of paper.
Ideal: ability to export the entire file as a single .html
. Don’t invent a new set of protocols. Rely on web technologies: imperfect, but inertial.
You guys need to just like, give me money for making things for the internet.
Things I want to create:
What if I design a hundred personal websites?
They'll have to be demos, not entire sites, but it'll be good to have an outlet for all the gimmicks and themes I have in my head.
Exactly what it sounds like, a small line of text added to incoming call screens.
What if I hooked up GPT to a Codepen? And then connected that to my own Spring '83 server?
What if I ignored the spec and just hosted a public collection of boards from whoever wants to add one?
Provide methods for practical details like username validation, notification pop-ups, undo functionality, keyboard event handling, etc.
“What if each page had changing weather and climates?”
I use snowfall.css to add snowflakes, and it can be modified for rain, hail, and falling leaves. But how do you represent summer?
Stolen from Justin Duke, Mathura.
A MicroSaaS that takes a repository of issues (Linear, GitHub Issues, etc.) and turns them into an easily printable PDF of index cards for triaging.
A simple app that hooks into your GitHub repository, parses your Pipfile/Gemfile/etc, and emails you periodically with information about new major and minor releases that are of interest to you.
A productivity app aping the concept of "daily quests" as popularized by MMOs.
A dedicated comparison site for infrastructure providers.
Locket.camera, but for sharing your calendar with someone.
Get an email/slack whenever code changes/PRs match a regex, similar to Github File Watcher.
Chrome extension, whenever you open a social media app or something because you're bored, makes you do an exercise instead.