Upcoming projects, Fall 2025 edition

Upcoming projects include revisiting old ideas

Bidirectional compilation - a compiler that can work backwards to enable radical refactoring, possibly into other languages. I'll start with Pascal, because it doesn't really do macros, which break reverse causality. Memex - I want to create a markup language for existing documents that can actually bring an 80 year old idea to life. The main feature is the ability to browse the web and have it all captured and ready for sharing and making copies on demand, something IP lawyers and censors would abhor.

LiveSQL - a database that offers subscriptions to changes, and temporal features. There was an old database back in the MS-DOS days that had the idea of generations of changes to resolve locking and other issues. Maybe that becomes part of this. The main feature is that you could have a query that gives you new versions of the database as others make changes.

Setting up my own electronics repair shop. My friend who I help has been doing this since the 1950s, I need to get my own workbench and things up and running again, it's been decades since I've had my own shop, now that I'm retired, it's time to set it up. 

De-hoarding - too much stuff that I won't use, and my child doesn't need to worry about when we're gone. Part of the shop process should be finding someone else to inherit that stuff, and save my kid the grief of finding it a home.

Multidimensional ratings - Imagine a way to rate things on a forum (just to make it easier to start out), but instead of up/down vote, you can make up your own dimensions as well... humour, is_it_political, spam, etc. There are things you really can't talk about because the moderation systems we use globally have to worry about spam of many forms, and nuance gets crushed. I'd like to help address that.

So called Liberation Day, the day the Dollar died.

The US created a new world order from the ashes of WWII. This gave us the incredible privilege of having other nations treat our Dollar as their reserve currency. 

Trump has thrown this away, and it can't be recovered. We're now going to actually have to pay, in hard currency for things we import from now on. This means we're all going to see our standards of living fall by about 70% in the next decade.

It's important to remember this was a purely self inflicted wound, we did it to ourselves. We fucked around, and now we (and especially our kids) are going to find out.