@jakehamilton I'd want to contribute to desktop UI libraries, and ecosystem tooling 🤔

If an OS of choice emerges, maybe see about contributing to its UX to ensure it's broadly accessible by non-tech people as well as people who need accomodations

@jakehamilton I've been thinking in this direction as well. Even grabbed a domain already: careful.party

My own thoughts tend toward the creation of an anticapitalist software stack, starting (and possibly remaining) low-level, and more reliable, than is common now. To build on firmer foundations, so we don't have to spend so much time looking over our shoulders.

I don't think such work should be done in the open, but openly among comrades. These are my thoughts: https://lyk.so/collective.html

@jakehamilton @samir This, perhaps?

https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/

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1. An AI-free web browser & web browser engine

2. An AI-free search engine & search index

3. An AI-free operating system & kernel

@jakehamilton - a general use programming language with both a plaintext-based representation and a node-based visual representation that can be switched between at will, as an easier onramp for non programmers to learn the skills and get useful / fun things done on a computer
- a gamelike "learn computing concepts" interactive primer written in said language
- version control for non programmers that's usable for text as well as binary files, eg images, audio/video etc

@jakehamilton I could do nice icons, visual design and polish; maybe even UX as I know how frustrating it can be when you know what a tool can do, but you, rhe user, don't know how

@jakehamilton I want to build software plumbing. At some point the collective must have contact with the rest of the world, right? What tools would help make that easy while still supporting the goals of collectivism? That's what I'd want to build.

@jakehamilton I'd be a fan, but while I've got two young kids plus a job plus burning available software-writing cycles on my own projects, couldn't contribute much.

But, as a teacher, I could try to get the word out to interested students and/or have them use stuff produced by such a collective in classes.

Might eventually chip in games/visualizations.

@jakehamilton Three ideas, all crazy, two potential tools:

1. A tool that tries to bring web creation back to the 2000 flash and CD-ROM days, now in wasm form. There is something to be said about these old tools (Bryce3d, Director, AS2 flash) that made people want to do stuff.

2. A museum, a digital one, full of impossible things that can only be done in a digital museum (no AI ofc).

3. A way to make interactive essays, hyper-comic style (e.g Stanley Parable, but branches are like citations).

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id want to try and make something like a VCS but for beginners with a good UI and simpler than git

@jakehamilton i'd have to learn how to do this first, but i know of a couple of projects that take dirt-cheap esp32 processors and get them to boot to a python prompt. i want $10 computers that are outside the commercial software chain and are too shitty for the commercial software chain to take an interest in them — but just not-shitty enough to be useful to real people of a, say, solarpunk mindset.

@jakehamilton Working on a no-dependencies, no-build step, no-maintenance web framework and site generator: https://mastrojs.github.io

@jakehamilton I would want to work on porting the projects of others to legacy or unusual platforms