Programming ideas

To be implemented sometime but not by me.

3D first-person hidden object game with free movement, set in the locations I've seen in my dreams.

Video game where every time you take damage, the screen abruptly flashes pure white for several frames and blasts a screamer into your ears. Before this happens, there's a randomized delay of several frames. This way, you take damage in real life when you take damage in the game. (Obviously unsafe for people with photosensitive epilepsy, so it'd need an impossible to miss warning.)

Programming language with no typing, no error checking, and the worst possible default algorithms.

Reason

C and Shell already exist.

Website that tricks catgirl enthusiasts into learning about website accessibility by giving examples of techniques that work for both people with disabilities and, hypothetically, people with feline sensory systems.

Reason

I couldn't come up with any techniques other than making sure your website is dichromat-friendly.

Display server with the emphasis on modularity and a multi-level feature set.

Reason

No need for another Wayland.

Operating system with no way of interacting with it other than by using a screen reader.

Reason

High implementation difficulty and a potential debugging nightmare waiting to unravel.

UI system that uses paper as a skeuomorphic metaphor.

Reason

Won't translate well into the digital domain, suffering the same fate as Material Design.

Wiki documenting lesser known websites.

Reason

Depending on the verbosity of the articles, it'd either be useless or unsustainable.

Android camera app that lets you disable image processing and manually adjust everything.

Reason

Open Camera already exists.

Federated hosting for slideshows synced with audio - a low bandwidth substitute for videos.

Reason

No content creator would bother using custom editing software just to upload there.

Offline tier list maker web app that's actually usable on mobile.

Reason

TierMaker already exists. POCO C40 not being able to handle it is not good enough of a reason to bother making a replacement.

Tradle-like game where you guess a city from vague geographical descriptions (climate classification, agricultural land use, distance from the sea, etc).

Reason

Couldn't find a good database.

Toy WebAssembly OS-like environment to test alternative approaches to syscalls, sandboxing, and dynamic linking.

Reason

Too ambitious.

General purpose programming language that consists entirely of macros.

Reason

Lisp and Go templates already exist.

Sass UI framework that implements everything as mixins that you can optionally apply to whatever component you want.

Reason

I don't have that many projects with that many components, and this would make testing stuff locally harder.

JavaScript web quiz framework.

Reason

Not another one.

Toy operating system that only supports virtual hardware.

Reason

Too ambitious.

Android ID card app based on transfering signed JSON over NFC.

Reason

No actual government will adopt this.

General purpose programming language where all functions are asynchronous.

Reason

Sonic Pi already exists.

Speedrun website for cheated, fake, and non-game speedruns.

Reason

speedrun.com and tasvideos.org already exist.

Flatpak repository for outdated software.

Reason

High maintenance burden for something I'm not that interested in. Additionally, this would pretty much discard Flatpak's sandboxing capabilities, so there must be a better approach.

Windowing system and UI toolkit that uses a bitmap tile grid instead of text or arbitrary graphics.

Prior art

• 16 bit video game consoles

Reason

The thing that makes (pseudographical) TUIs worth it is that you can run them anywhere. This won't have that advantage.

C video game engine for basic 2D pixel art games.

Reason

Not another one.

Discussion platform based on colontags and comment deduplication.

Reason

Useless.

Wayland compositor where only 1 window is displayed at a time per output.

Reason

cage already exists.

Checklist app that shows only one step at a time.

Reason

One Task already exists.

Dial-up modem that sends data via a video stream.

Prior art

• Dial-up over a Discord Call
• Infinite Storage Glitch

Reason

Implementing it would require some serious graphics programming knowledge since it'd imply encoding and decoding data in real time. I'm not smart enough for this. If implemented, it'd also be extremely impractical — the only application I can think of is working around censorship, and sending data directly over WebRTC is much more efficient.

Package manager for fonts, icons, images, and other non-executable files.

Reason

Maintaining up-to-date repos is a hard and thankless job. In the case of fonts and icons specifically, Google Fonts and pling.com already exist, and making a frontend for them would be preferable. Unfortunately, I'm not interested in that.

Eyecandy Wayland screen locker.

Reason

waylock already exists.

Wayland compositor allowing to run Wayland apps on X11.

Reason

No.

Wayland winlocker proof of concept.

Reason

Probably unimplementable in a way that won't be stupid.

Wayland configuration and debugging Swiss Army Knife utility.

Reason

wlrctl and wlr-randr already exist.

xdg-desktop-portal swiss army knife utility.

Reason

ASHPD Demo already exists.

Manual data compression language and format.

Reason

OpenZL already exists, and it's a much better way to approach the problem.