Ideas I've had, collected here in case I -- or anybody else -- wants to implement them.
Thanks to Chris Ball, Allan Callaghan, Philip Chong, Adam Compton, Piet Delport, Daniel Drucker, Kevin Everets, Henrik Paulini, Giles Radford, Pete Saunders, Donald Stewart and Andrew Walbran for comments and suggestions.
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2007-12-30 · in Ideas · 178 words - SpamAssassin rule scheduling
2007-12-30 · in Ideas · 172 words - Relative mouse movement
2007-12-30 · in Ideas · 167 words - Chime reverb
2007-12-30 · in Ideas · 176 words - A touch of real physics for Oolite
2007-12-30 · in Ideas · 373 words - In-car surround sound
2007-12-29 · in Ideas · 314 words - Automatic redirect creator
2007-04-24 · in Ideas · 168 words - LED-backed LCD
2006-11-19 · in Ideas · 241 words - Instant completion
2006-11-19 · in Ideas · 135 words - Compositing, tiling window manager
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 223 words - Wikipedia "All Links" mode
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 61 words - Dyslexia-aware editor
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 166 words - Terminal on a chip
2006-11-13 · in Ideas, Done · 143 words - Filesystem format converter
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 273 words - Interchange fonts
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 159 words - Virtual puppets
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 46 words - MythTV new programme watcher
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 134 words - Testcard generator and open testcard
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 239 words - Standard media player bindings
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 54 words - Secure PO boxes
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 163 words - Greasemonkey mailman password manager
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 60 words - Democratic frequency allocation
2006-11-13 · in Ideas · 96 words - Wikipedia controversy annotation
2006-03-19 · in Ideas · 71 words - BitTorrent proxy
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 84 words - Record frames
2006-03-13 · in Ideas, Done · 71 words - UV chroma keying
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 132 words - Real pan pot
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 131 words - Pot turner pedal
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 119 words - Mutt command mode
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 33 words - Music keyboard for text
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 44 words - Lazy syscall evaluation
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 77 words - occam editor highlighting
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 42 words - Hash-structured filesystem
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 190 words - Dated links
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 45 words - Audio games
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 43 words - Battery power for audio
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 131 words - Analogue pitch shifter
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 71 words - Album joining
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 52 words - JACK subtitle editor
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 42 words - Bank SSL certificates
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 52 words - MPlayer bob filter
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 79 words - Unofficial patch store
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 80 words - AppArmor triggering
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 50 words - Bitbanging serial driver
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 36 words - del.icio.us site grouping
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 45 words - Periodic metadata dumper
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 133 words - Infringe
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 148 words - Mini Linksys Linux
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 69 words - Referer security
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 74 words - irssi active-channels display
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 45 words - Program explainer
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 139 words - Bitrate effect pedal
2006-03-13 · in Ideas · 43 words - Reusable banner sheets
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 40 words - Head simulator
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 34 words - Wikipedia automatic disambiguation
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 46 words - Dictaphone alarm clock
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 56 words - Soft hobs
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 63 words - Userspace devices
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 47 words - Mutt automatic aliases
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 19 words - Vinyl digitisation clocking
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 76 words - udev as userspace filesystem
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 59 words - JACK name X property
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 39 words - JACK autopatcher
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 133 words - Hierarchical stylesheet language
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 145 words - Web forum NNTP scraper
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 44 words - Markov chain auto-accompaniment
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 54 words - Audio system visualisation
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 43 words - Reply to page plugin for Firefox
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 75 words - Periodic table of the British Isles
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 48 words - X terminal GUI takeover
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 54 words - rawdog Bayes filter
2006-03-12 · in Ideas · 86 words - Customisable hold music
2005-08-31 · in Ideas · 62 words - BitTorrent traceroute checking
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 50 words - CSS compressor
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 53 words - Indicator lights
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 72 words - "human" program
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 62 words - GARstow library packages
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 112 words - IF acting game
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 39 words - IRC activity display
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 64 words - Railway display
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 89 words - Silly recipes
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 87 words - Unicode smileys
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 60 words - 3D family tree viewer
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 67 words - Personal supervise
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 102 words - Bug finder
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 124 words - Laser clock
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 91 words - Barcode extraction library
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 36 words - 1541 emulator
2005-06-19 · in Ideas, Done · 95 words - rawdog ad filter plugin
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 57 words - Uncertified certification authority
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 241 words - Dynamic tunnel client
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 169 words - Generic file monitoring daemon
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 113 words - xscreensaver video feedback hack
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 47 words - xscreensaver hacks from TV shows
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 36 words - FORKing and variable scope
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 42 words - New occam usage checker
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 42 words - occam module system
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 46 words - Refcounting GC for occam
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 93 words - A consistent visual language for (extended) CSP
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 56 words - Symbols for client and server ends
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 65 words - Cache-aware scheduling for occam
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 36 words - occam blocks with conditions
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 110 words - The DORF pattern in occam
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 113 words - Entirely mobile occam
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 309 words - Notebook application
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 128 words - Famous guitarists effects box
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 111 words - Automatic sequentialisation and buffering
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 244 words - Userspace process migration
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 40 words - CSP shell
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 250 words - Radio-archiving system
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 261 words - statviz
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 89 words - occam train set demo
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 126 words - AST representation using processes
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 129 words - occam placed interrupts
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 92 words - Fast path visualisation tool
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 75 words - occam call/cc
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 205 words - occam GUI using channels
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 183 words - occam virtual machine in RMoX
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 131 words - Paper simulator
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 65 words - RMoX sockets in device framework
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 273 words - Annoying software
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 238 words - Python-minus-minus
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 206 words - Watches I might like
2005-06-19 · in Ideas · 285 words - Process tagging for KRoC debug output
2005-03-01 · in Ideas · 65 words - Evolutionary compilation
2005-02-21 · in Ideas · 1044 words - Terminal colour remapping
2004-11-02 · in Ideas · 175 words - "Do not open here" hint
2004-10-28 · in Ideas · 172 words - HTTPS proxying
2004-10-28 · in Ideas, Done · 235 words - Mailing groups
2004-10-18 · in Ideas · 155 words - Pushing the boundaries
2004-10-18 · in Ideas · 116 words - Pingable Lego bricks
2004-10-18 · in Ideas · 157 words - Bottleneck removal in occamnet
2004-10-18 · in Ideas · 127 words - CPU allocation in the occam scheduler
2004-10-18 · in Ideas · 99 words - Process diagram designer
2004-10-18 · in Ideas · 186 words - Guitar effects in occam
2004-10-18 · in Ideas · 281 words - occam-pi reference
2004-10-11 · in Ideas · 90 words - Implementing break in occam using nanopasses
2004-10-11 · in Ideas · 117 words - occam abstract syntax
2004-10-10 · in Ideas · 151 words - Python-style syntax for occam
2004-10-10 · in Ideas · 903 words - occam as systems language
2004-10-09 · in Ideas · 163 words - occamnet revamp
2004-10-09 · in Ideas, Done · 154 words - Coloured stderr
2004-10-09 · in Ideas · 161 words - Sparse block device
2004-10-09 · in Ideas · 100 words - Syntax-aware editor
2004-09-11 · in Ideas · 277 words - key-su
2004-09-11 · in Ideas · 103 words - xpdf automatic centring
2004-09-09 · in Ideas · 136 words - rsync with syncfs features
2004-09-03 · in Ideas · 250 words - Lock-free filesystem
2004-09-03 · in Ideas · 174 words - Credit card with multiple addresses
2004-09-03 · in Ideas · 124 words - Advert fading
2004-09-03 · in Ideas · 157 words - Infinite Cat Visualisation
2004-09-03 · in Ideas · 107 words - Player control protocol
2004-08-27 · in Ideas · 158 words - Terminal setup tool
2004-07-29 · in Ideas · 123 words - Mozilla keyboard extension
2004-07-28 · in Ideas · 136 words - SSH line speed measurement
2004-06-16 · in Ideas · 192 words - Chumpbot aggregator
2004-05-31 · in Ideas · 56 words - On-load bookmarklets
2004-05-24 · in Ideas · 107 words - IRC meme tracking
2004-05-24 · in Ideas · 189 words - Command-line calendar tools
2004-05-24 · in Ideas · 156 words - Mozilla bookmark file cleaner
2004-05-24 · in Ideas · 100 words - Mozilla Pedant Extension
2004-05-24 · in Ideas · 179 words - Recipes poster
2004-05-12 · in Ideas · 223 words - RSS translation
2004-05-05 · in Ideas · 131 words - Software description format
2004-04-26 · in Ideas · 893 words - Scrolling by lines
2004-04-21 · in Ideas · 398 words - Variable mouse sensitivity
2004-04-13 · in Ideas · 177 words - Portable procps-style tools based on statgrab
2004-04-06 · in Ideas · 51 words - Historical diaries
2004-04-04 · in Ideas · 192 words - Python loop exit syntax
2004-04-04 · in Ideas · 322 words - automake builder
2004-04-01 · in Ideas · 127 words - RSS proxy
2004-04-01 · in Ideas · 205 words - Context RSS feed
2004-04-01 · in Ideas · 91 words - Attachment warnings
2004-03-30 · in Ideas, Done · 120 words - Cookie return control
2004-03-26 · in Ideas · 228 words - xscreensaver movie slice hack
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 69 words - xscreensaver mouse tracking hack
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 33 words - Bank statement RSS
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 112 words - Found pangrams
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 59 words - Maildir NNTP server
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 89 words - Google News-style sorting for rawdog
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 98 words - Capabilities-aware compiler
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 80 words - Chord tools
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 345 words - Memory usage estimation tool
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 83 words - VFS integration
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 67 words - nsd-style recursive nameserver
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 66 words - tinydns-style parser for nsd
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 74 words - Gale archive web service for automatic catchup
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 132 words - xscreensaver musician hack
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 152 words - Incremental database backup tools
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 151 words - Database visualisation framework for web applications
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 125 words - Python-Perl integration
2004-03-23 · in Ideas · 124 words - Better typography in Mozilla
2004-03-20 · in Ideas · 82 words - GARstow config file merging
2004-03-08 · in Ideas · 126 words - Side-by-side TeX editor
2004-02-21 · in Ideas · 72 words - Multiple content types
2004-02-21 · in Ideas · 105 words - Message-Id URIs
2004-02-21 · in Ideas · 109 words - Long description support in web browsers
2004-02-21 · in Ideas · 96 words - Letter pairs sample text
2004-02-21 · in Ideas · 91 words - Discipline and library for program-edited config files
2004-02-21 · in Ideas · 154 words - 2D scale navigation for timed media
2004-02-21 · in Ideas · 146 words - GAR port flags
2004-02-04 · in Ideas · 100 words - Standard classes of HTML form
2004-01-31 · in Ideas · 109 words - arch-style storage for CVS
2004-01-31 · in Ideas · 125 words - Accessibility Monkey
2004-01-31 · in Ideas · 79 words - Standardised dotfile arrangement
2003-12-29 · in Ideas · 125 words - Command-line XML tools
2003-12-29 · in Ideas · 185 words - fetchmail IMAP high-latency improvements
2003-12-16 · in Ideas · 105 words - fetchmail generic mail injection option
2003-12-16 · in Ideas · 148 words - xscreensaver integration with media players
2003-12-06 · in Ideas · 26 words - Better cookie-jar control
2003-12-03 · in Ideas · 79 words - Flashy light applet
2003-11-25 · in Ideas · 69 words - zz super slot
in Ideas · 23 words - zz methods
in Ideas · 32 words - xscreensaver magnetic poetry
in Ideas · 24 words - xscreensaver lavaps
in Ideas · 20 words - xpdf improved X font rendering
in Ideas · 176 words - xhippo streaming output
in Ideas · 29 words - xhippo set window title
in Ideas · 31 words - xhippo request queue
in Ideas · 67 words - xhippo ratings
in Ideas · 24 words - xhippo pluggable interfaces
in Ideas · 56 words - xhippo player failure detection
in Ideas · 14 words - X video capture wrapper
in Ideas · 21 words - X root window size changing
in Ideas, Done · 69 words - Web page changes RSS
in Ideas, Done · 127 words - VirtualDub Unix port
in Ideas · 94 words - vcfs
in Ideas · 30 words - ukms-ftpd backend data connections
in Ideas, Done · 128 words - Titlebar menus in X
in Ideas · 39 words - Threaded interface for Gale
in Ideas · 82 words - Symlink behaviour options in ROX-Filer
in Ideas, Done · 57 words - Subtitle extraction from images
in Ideas · 108 words - stash
in Ideas · 58 words - ssh as replacement for su
in Ideas · 131 words - ssh address caching
in Ideas · 38 words - SpamAssassin newsgroup moderation
in Ideas · 14 words - Smooth slowdown when playing video
in Ideas · 92 words - slrn mailbox backend
in Ideas · 5 words - Shorthand recognition
in Ideas · 45 words - Search engine with usability metric
in Ideas · 33 words - Scriptable IRC bot
in Ideas · 187 words - sched: a cron and anacron replacement
in Ideas · 149 words - run-after
in Ideas, Done · 49 words - Run niced attribute
in Ideas · 18 words - RSS feeds for web comics
in Ideas, Done · 85 words - Romaajifier
in Ideas, Done · 33 words - Right-to-left English locale
in Ideas · 55 words - RDF-based PIM
in Ideas · 73 words - rawdog feed schedule spreading
in Ideas · 100 words - pwcheck NSS replacement for dietlibc
in Ideas · 9 words - Proper clipboard support in xterm/rxvt
in Ideas · 39 words - Process suspension
in Ideas · 119 words - PGP-enabled command-line mail tool
in Ideas · 48 words - Personal, primable proxies
in Ideas · 156 words - PalmOS scripting
in Ideas · 17 words - Overnight validation and page ownership
in Ideas · 141 words - occamnet
in Ideas, Done · 28 words - Object-oriented library for access to comics
in Ideas · 171 words - not-quite-execline
in Ideas · 98 words - nnmaildir maintenance script
in Ideas, Done · 97 words - Nicer interface for gst-launch
in Ideas · 13 words - New i-scream backend
in Ideas, Done · 43 words - Network Protocol Translation
in Ideas · 30 words - Multiple link selection
in Ideas · 46 words - Multipart awareness for MPlayer
in Ideas · 60 words - MPlayer warpsharp filter
in Ideas · 18 words - MPlayer anime button
in Ideas, Done · 39 words - Mozilla null plugin
in Ideas, Done · 99 words - More detailed BitTorrent status reporting
in Ideas · 81 words - mod_shortlink for Apache
in Ideas, Done · 72 words - Metagallery
in Ideas · 115 words - Making my ideas page easier to navigate
in Ideas, Done · 74 words - Make dumblog a bit less dumb
in Ideas · 43 words - madplay AGC
in Ideas · 4 words - lm_sensors userspace tools for Linux 2.6
in Ideas, Done · 65 words - listmyshopping.org
in Ideas · 43 words - Linux procflags syscall
in Ideas · 72 words - Links xterm title support
in Ideas, Done · 20 words - libprogress
in Ideas · 45 words - libnss_nmb
in Ideas · 16 words - liblookandfeel
in Ideas · 49 words - libcompress
in Ideas · 12 words - "Konqueror Firebird"
in Ideas · 114 words - killswitchfs
in Ideas · 47 words - Junk swapshop
in Ideas, Done · 102 words - ISO idiot-proofing
in Ideas · 43 words - irssi idiocy avoidance
in Ideas · 30 words - IRC topic to RSS gateway
in Ideas · 70 words - iptables SOCKS target
in Ideas · 68 words - IP over... more things
in Ideas, Done · 132 words - Interfaces to nget
in Ideas · 47 words - Intelligent DCC receive for irssi
in Ideas · 58 words - Improved animesoc database
in Ideas · 40 words - identd cooperation with OpenSSH
in Ideas, Done · 52 words - HTTP authentication management
in Ideas · 91 words - Highlighting in watch
in Ideas · 29 words - Highlight active window in irssi
in Ideas · 29 words - High-bandwidth referer blacklist
in Ideas · 97 words - GTK2 outliner
in Ideas · 52 words - GTK resource dialog
in Ideas · 53 words - Google cache web proxy
in Ideas · 35 words - glibc VFS support
in Ideas · 55 words - GARstow chroot management
in Ideas, Done · 68 words - Functional video composition
in Ideas, Done · 200 words - function-config
in Ideas · 60 words - Fontconfig everywhere!
in Ideas · 27 words - Font-mashing tools
in Ideas · 51 words - Firewall stats watching tools
in Ideas · 59 words - Eye-tracking text reader
in Ideas · 48 words - ETC virtual machine for occam
in Ideas · 42 words - Dynamic page hint tags for search engines
in Ideas · 39 words - Depiction annotation for mugshots
in Ideas · 22 words - D-BUS-based notification box
in Ideas · 109 words - CVSRSS
in Ideas · 35 words - CVS to RSS, mark two
in Ideas, Done · 49 words - CVS replication
in Ideas · 83 words - Customisable PalmOS OSK
in Ideas · 41 words - Customisable drop behaviour in ROX-Filer windows
in Ideas · 68 words - Copy alphabetically
in Ideas · 29 words - Combined stop button and spinner
in Ideas · 63 words - Collaborative SMS dictionaries
in Ideas · 84 words - chrooted mail system
in Ideas · 62 words - catfs
in Ideas · 76 words - Cache information in web browsers
in Ideas · 47 words - Bookmarks merge tool
in Ideas · 83 words - BitTorrent bandwidth allocation web of trust
in Ideas · 251 words - Better zz VM
in Ideas · 28 words - Better Python IRC client class
in Ideas · 43 words - Better Makefiles for web pages
in Ideas, Done · 41 words - Better mailboxes
in Ideas · 132 words - Better GTK file selector
in Ideas · 67 words - batvise
in Ideas, Done · 125 words - bandwidthpie
in Ideas, Done · 32 words - Bandwidth-limiting Apache module
in Ideas · 67 words - Bandwidth proxying
in Ideas, Done · 91 words - badchips.org
in Ideas · 27 words - AVI command-line tools
in Ideas · 33 words - Automatic "system" updates for GARstow
in Ideas · 74 words - Auto-hiding panels in ROX-Filer
in Ideas · 53 words - Aspect ratios in window managers
in Ideas, Done · 64 words - amicon and libinfo
in Ideas · 55 words - Adam's ideal IRC client
in Ideas · 139 words - A filesystem with pervasive metadata
in Ideas · 38 words - A deadlock visualisation tool for occam
in Ideas · 22 words - A better RSS aggregator
in Ideas, Done · 63 words - A "history bar" for Mozilla
in Ideas · 39 words
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