Ideas for Computing

This reminds of this: http://www.squidi.net/three/ which attempts to define a large number of computer game gameplay mechanics. Maybe we need more forwarding-reaching fiction in our world. More essays on computing futurology, grand envisioning of what we can achieve with software. Even ambitious prototypes of a new way to do something (like Lighttable) A lot of what I see are tooling details, lot of boring effort duplication on mostly-identical languages and lot of nitpicking/bikeshedding comments like: well, you…

I think it's a great idea to keep lists like that. There was a point in my life where I was working on a long-winded, personal project. It really put a strain on my psychological health but I knew I needed to finish it. But as things go in situations like that, suddenly all kinds of other things started to sound so much more interesting (hello, procrastination!). After too long, I finally noticed that by starting new exciting side-projects all…

Thanks for posting it again. Always would enjoy more discussion so I've created issues for discussion threads. There's a page 2 now (another 85+): https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2 Which are even better IMHO. I'd suggest someone not familiar with the series to try ideas2 first.