⊕ Learn: Modern frontend libraries and frameworks, maybe TypeScript I hate finding and playing albums on Spotify. I never find what I want, when I want. Playlists are weird for playing albums.

I would love to have something that is like a whiteboard or diagram software. Perhaps like a visual programming system.

Have cover art blocks. Arranged, piled, scaled, whatnot. Have text, other images, lines, drawings, background.

Possible interactions: Click to play. Draw arrows between the albums to chain play them.

Challenge: Finding a good library to do the heavy lifting frontend work.

Distraction: Spotify API authentication.

Learn: Frontend things.

⊕ Feels like a theoretical computer science problem. Linear Programming? I want recipe management systems to recommend me recipes based on selected recipes. Optimize ingredient container use.

Example: If I have a recipe selected that needs half a can of tomato, suggest me recipes that use up the other half.

Challenge: The CS problem.

Distraction: Is there a database of typical container sizes or would this require scraping a supermarket site? Needs recipes and a management software with good database layout or plugin interface.

⊕ Learn SQLite internals and MQTT along the way. MQTT fan out topics with retained messages could be something to build SQLite replication on top of.

SQLite replication is non-standard AFAIK, but there are projects that add this feature.

Distraction: Setting up MQTT and tooling to make sense of the messages flying around.

Challenge: Finding and understanding a fitting SQLite replication system

⊕ Maybe learn https://datasette.io along the way? As a personal feedback mechanism I used to have a tool that gave me some stats about what I did on my computer during the week.

There are lots of applications like it, especially for the Mac. Nothing me and Linux/X11 compatible last time I checked.

Examples: Software most in active focus. Emacs file edited the most. Time system was unlocked / locked. Screen most active.

I left the code at $previous_employer, rewrote and activated the capture part about a year ago. Never got around writing the analysis part.

⊕ 📚 Proactor, Reactor, Classic Threaded, etc. How does Go servers work, Java Netty, Boost Asio?

⊕ No idea how useful this could be Use an LED strip to visualize the day. In intervals of half hours perhaps. Use calendar, org-mode, etc. to visualize the past. Highlight certain times in the future. Mark the present.

It should answer questions like: How much deep work today? When is lunch? Is it time to wind down, take a break?

Half hardware / software.

I already have the hardware lying around: programmable RGB LED strip, NodeMCUs.

Distraction: Soldering, firmware building, etc.

My daily driver. Started during a sabbatical. Learned Clojure on the way. Grew to about 10kSLOC over the years. A bit weird. Scratches an itch software.

Challenge: Hard to let go. Hard to come to terms with the feeling of not good enough.

It could use a proper way to configure feeds, more testing, proper containers, etc.

⊕ This feels hard when distributed. Probably needs consensus. Big fan of https://github.com/defnull/pixelflut.

I don't think there is an online version of this (things like Miro don't count). Maybe WebRTC?