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| Software I wish existed and would welcome discovering. I strongly prefer open | |
| source, but closed source is often better than nothing: | |
| A real-time audio synthesis engine that runs on general-purpose computing | |
| hardware and intelligently scales up number of simultaneous patches/polyphony | |
| based on available hardware resources. | |
| [TessellationOS](http://tessellation.cs.berkeley.edu/) could be an excellent OS | |
| to implement this system on, if/when it reaches a public release. This one I | |
| really would require open-source for - what I want is for the patches I design | |
| to never become unplayable. You can see my scribbled notes on this concept at | |
| https://github.com/NateEag/audio-engine. | |
| A better version control system than Git/Mercurial/et al. See | |
| https://github.com/NateEag/next-vcs for my slow-evolving thoughts on the | |
| subject. | |
| A distributed command-line code review system that integrates cleanly with | |
| native git, with an optional web UI for ease-of-use. It should support tracking | |
| a branch's entire history (including rebases) without requiring extra | |
| abstractions (like Gerrit's Changeset-Id). Some haphazard design notes on how | |
| it might be built are at https://github.com/NateEag/git-revue. | |
| An open source, local-first calorie tracker (but with optional support for | |
| hitting servers for specific data). I initially thought of this as an Android | |
| app, but perhaps it would be better conceived of as a network API (HTTP, I | |
| assume, because that's what I know) which has both desktop and mobile UIs. The | |
| mobile UI can't be a pure website because I want to support scanning barcodes | |
| for branded foods, pulling the data from the free USDA branded food products DB | |
| (which can be downloaded so you can use it in a local-first app). | |
| An introduction to the basics of RESTful APIs in the form of a text-based | |
| adventure. Support the HTTP verbs as commands, and have the player manipulate | |
| the world to achieve victory conditions. I need to think of a scenario where | |
| object creation and destruction makes sense... Maybe make the player a god of | |
| some sort? | |
| A program to filter style/static checker results by lines added and changed | |
| in the diff between commits. In-progress at | |
| https://github.com/NateEag/diff-check. | |
| A really good schema exploration UI, something interactive and immediate that | |
| is both pretty and functional. In particular, I make heavy use of formal | |
| comments in my schemas, and none of the ones I've encountered handle that at | |
| all well. | |
| An HTML/CSS/JS style checker that warns you when a construct is not supported | |
| by targeted browsers. The data backing caniuse should make this possible | |
| (https://github.com/fyrd/caniuse), but it could be fairly complex to adapt it | |
| to work with HTML/CSS/JS parsers. check-caniuse might be an okay name? | |
| check-browser-compat? | |
| A program that takes two SQL schemas and outputs the SQL to convert one to the | |
| other. Call it schema-diff. Liquibase has parts of this, but it's not clear to | |
| me that schema-diff as such is there (see potential-technologies.txt). | |
| A system for proving that a webpage existed on a particular domain at a | |
| specific point in time with specific contents. I'm not sure this is achievable, | |
| but it has obvious utility when faced with bad-faith editing of websites. | |
| Fundamentally, though, any mechanism is probably defeatable by a | |
| sufficiently-motivated attacker - any "I'm trustworthy" signature can be | |
| suborned, and any consensus-in-the-blockchain can be brute-forced by a 51% | |
| attack. | |
| A way to force YouTube (and similar) links to open in VLC. Keeping me away from | |
| their video recommendation algorithms would be a win. It would be possible to | |
| make a Chrome extension that does this by building a dumb little local server | |
| and using the native messaging API to fire off "open link in VLC" shell | |
| commands via the server (maybe using | |
| [Streamlink](https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink)), which should do the | |
| job if Chrome is your default browser. | |
| A program that sends monitoring alerts if specific actions are not taken | |
| rapidly after SSH logins. The hypothetical name 'tripwire' gets across the idea | |
| here - if someone gets SSH access to your machines but they don't know your | |
| tripwire configuration, . I'm not sure it would help much, since deployment | |
| code has to either include the tripwire config or be whitelisted for tripwire | |
| somehow. Still, security is all about layers of defense, and this could be | |
| another one. |