Dump of ideas for Bradfield CSI capstone project

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Final Project Ideas

TCP/IP for energy

read bret victor’s climate change treatise, take notes

discard duplicate copies of all files in a directory

compare two photos; are they the same, even if they are different formats or of different dimensions? discard one, according to user’s preference (recency, size, format, etc)

Golang compiler flag that favors a smaller build in exchange for longer start time

Addressing this complaint: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/go-file-size/

Contribute to esbuild

https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/

Contribute to any NASA open source project

Sparqlite

Decentralized worldwide super computer

https://cultureandempire.com/html/edgenet.html

Joe Armstrong, “Five Hobby Projects”

IPFS project contribution?

https://ipfs.io/

Host of ideas at the end of this talk (p. 21) from Rob #Pike, all broad

http://worrydream.com/refs/Pike%20-%20Systems%20Software%20Research%20is%20Irrelevant.pdf

Something about operating systems

Novel research for a different kind of system

Would require lots of research to find what’s been done

Step-through GIF viewer

Slider for going through frames, add information about frames, e.g. keystrokes (like smaller version of speakers notes in slideshow files)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Metadata

Something with battery optimization?

A text file that allows one to connect notes in the file to source code, not getting checked into source control

A good profiler for macos, a CLI tool that’s an alternative to Instruments

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11445619/profiling-c-on-mac-os-x

Contribute to new Google OS, Fuchsia

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/CONTRIBUTING

Something about benchmarks and clearing out a system for it? Or benchmarking as a service?

Easy USB interface? idk John Carmack knows a lot.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1457779239004999694

New file mode for noting a file can be on the cloud: OS-level change

Adding to rwx permissions

Some OSS contrib in Go?

https://goodfirstissue.dev/language/go/

Contrib to this mesh network experiment

https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go

Change to SMTP to allow for a reply-all-by-default email type

Script to turn off the power on a laptop for macOS

Linux version: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop

Urbit OS grant program

https://urbit.org/

man pages but for assembly shit

find downloadable offline documentation for this

Add tldr pages for utils that are useful, but not as common

stat

size

strings

head

file