Side Quests

This is a page of small futures; projects, experiments, and ideas that would be fun but I probably haven’t had time for yet.

Think of this page as an invitation to any friends, mutuals, or enigmatic strangers to collaborate with me on a weekend project. Reach out on twitter or email if something here sparks your interest.

• Linguistic analysis to find the longest compound word square (or chain)
• Make an iceberg video on computer history or increasingly obscure interfaces
• Experiment with collaborative echo chamber for ideation, communication, etc.
• Make a text editor you can interact with without a keyboard (voice + AI)
• Japanese version of abstract orange lice game
• Small platform for people to propose learning experiments and find people to join
• Write a song (or album) related to computer history, future of computing, urban design, etc.
• Make a little social internet radar, keeping track of changes (not just RSS) across friends’ personal websites and links between different posts
  • This would also be useful for keeping track of changes on my own website over time, or as a community hub for a webring
• Contextual paste, using language models to experiment with a smart contextual paste that matches the style of things around it
• Return to visual mnemonics (for Hanzi/Kanji) using more modern image models, and automate to generate visual mnemonics for thousands of characters

This page is still under construction, more links, context, and ideas soon to come!