Ideas

I have many ideas for things I’d like to see in the world or for things I want to build/reinvent myself, unfortunately I don’t have nearly enough time to pursue all of them. I’ll be recording some of those thoughts here. Maybe if I’m lucky, someone will feel inspired and create and share one of these with the world.

1. This exists! I quite like the programming language Go. I think it might be interesting to see the idea of the Tauri (optimized, secure, and frontend-independent application for multiple platforms) framework but designed/made to work with the Go language.

2. Write an extension to detect and counter unethical CSS tracking techniques. More examples can be found on this Github along with an extension/solution that could be worked with however it hasn’t been updated for many years and I would guess it’s likely worthwhile to explore any circumvention techniques that may have popped up in any new CSS standards.

3. Write a JavaScript runtime engine.

4. I find the history of dictionaries neat. I’d love to be able to use the dict program or something like it to search through a variety of locally stored/offline dictionaries. Unfortunately there isn’t a large collection of dictionaries on the AUR so I hope someone writes a bot to scrape, process, and store popular dictionaries offline

5. literal rubber duck hooked up with LEDs, small computer, and moving mouth/beak that can output audio/listen (microphone), open source hardware as much as possible with documented APIs, could hook up to LLM, make feature marketplace for devs to share their custom stuff, but first gotta buy duckdebug.com. networked ducks, a big super computer and array of talking, listening, blinking rubber ducks on a shelf

6. Clone and remix perspectask.com and linear.app

7. Build PostgreSQL based queue/job-processing for Rust (examples: 1, 2, 3)

8. Build flexible Rust PostgreSQL extension FDW for variety of file types

9. Finish pg_sqids

10. a thing whichs build a UI for a site based on a request to a JSON API. how far can you get by describing your goals? Want a form that collects data? Want a UI built for a random API?

11. Create a tool that shows behavioural stats based on smartphone sensor data

12. See what building a node graph with compositional reactivity entails:

13. Tool that uses Ollama to generate Claude prompts

14. Make the blogroll for this site pull actual posts from my blogroll to display and browse through

15. Fork https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex.git and integrate with this websites repository so memex stores stuff I highlight/etc here github.com/jerlendds/dev-studiumex

16. An interface to preferentially compare and choose between 2 objects, using a Tinder like interface (swipe left/right mechanics)

17. Youtube channel or playlist to RSS feed, whisper transcripts and screenshots

18. A page change tracker that A: pumps the page through uBlock origin before each snapshot and B; produces an RSS feed with a summary of changes.

19. A web page to epub converter that A: sends the page through uBlock origin or similar, B: sends the result through the postlight parser, and then C: gives the user a chance to customize the result before packaging it up as an epub. Customisation would include setting a cover image (or none,) setting a title and other metadata, choosing to include a TOC or not, renaming any chapters if a TOC is included, etc.

20. Secure Docker Internet Browser Image: A private and secure internet browser within a Docker image, equipped with built-in recording tools to track actions and results. Ideally, this would include a suggested Docker Compose file tailored for investigators.

21. OSINT-Optimized Android Emulation: An image like docker-android (https://lnkd.in/gf2AUdrp), but an Android browser image specifically designed for OSINT investigations? This would include emulation capabilities within a secure environment, recording, data import/export, etc.

22. Investigation-Ready Docker Setups: Pre-built Docker images for common investigation configurations that can be easily set up and torn down. Each setup should support exporting findings, steps, and recordings, with customizable Docker Compose settings. The vision is to create an isolated investigation environment—a browser, Linux desktop/Android OS, RDP connection, screen recording from boot—that allows loading and analyzing collected data, exporting evidence or reports, and keeping the investigation environment (Docker container) fully separated from the primary work system.

23. Build a version of https://www.tagspaces.org/ into a vscodium extension, little post-its :) https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/83

??. To be continued…