Three Dollar Quill

In this post:

• Ideas for changing up the blogging process.
• A giant list off started projects, and my feelings on them.
• An attempt to sort all of that by dependencies, and rough interest on my part.

Earlier, I mentioned possibly bringing in more agile process to these weekly things I'm doing. Something like, try and bring back the trello (which was making less sense when I moved to a more restricted set of weekly topics), and start trying to scope stuff for the various projects.

I'd basically divide things into:

• Quick hit
• Not too bad
• Challenging
• Formidable
• Theme (Complicated enough to build a week around)
• Week (Complicated enough to take up a week on its own)
• Out-of-scope

And note projects thus:

• Structured Data: shelved for now
• Conworld Codex: oh geez, I left off trying to find a UI library I liked... Focus on that at some point, I guess
• Demiurgent Business: I could come back to this, but I don't currently feel like it
• GDP Rust: active development
• Homunculus: I would approach this from the angle of improving Rust's TDL bindings
• Linked Seas: I want to focus on the RIP first
• Mon Free: explicitly blocked on Homunculus progress
• Tiny Music: I want to get better at API stuff from the core of GDP first, then I'll look over this
• Romance Instrumentality Project: I've got other stuff I want to read first
• The Cabin: oh man, this is from when I was trying to put in accurate timestamps. Anyway, I can work on this, I just don't have any ideas currently
• Python Augmented: going to have to psych myself up to stick this in a vcs and just start hacking on it
• Time Travel CCMWG: this is amazing and I have no idea how to make it a thing
• Shine Whave: pffft
• Revisiting the "online media affordances" stuff. I want to take a different tack on this.

And some things I don't have posts on:

• Thoughts on effective horror, inspired by a movie that was very... ineffective
• The One-Man Institute, no longer of Inapplicable Physics, but now of Counterfactual Experimentalism. I believe the institute's goals are served, not by pretending to understand General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, but by pretending to understand lots of things
• Trying to write libraries for nicer newtypes in Rust
• An unnamed board game idea: not really fleshed out, chain of inspiration goes back to Jumanji, which, huh, they made another Jumanji movie last year, how about that, I was unaware
• Jedi improvements: I should give this a week sometime, I don't know really

So, stuff to do:

• GDP

  • Tiny Music

  • Try to help bind TDL

    • Homunculus

      • Mon Free

  • Newtypes

• Reading that doesn't get a post

  • RIP

• Python Augmented
• Jedi
• Effective horror
• Online media
• OMICE
• Demiurgent Business

• ???

  • Conworld Codex

    • Linked Seas (also depends on RIP)

• The Cabin
• Shine Whave I guess
• CCMWG
• Untitled Game

With so many things to look into, I kind of want to take a week sometime to just scope things out and spec them into tasks within each project.