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