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5 Stupid Ideas I've Had This Month

This month has been great for my stupid ideas to flow. Highdeas as I call them because I am usually (like right now) high while I come up with them. These ideas are too stupid, or I myself am too stupid, to work on them, so I thought I'd share these ideas with the world.

1: Yet Another Generic/User-Friendly Arch Distro (YAGAD/YAUFAD)

The TL;DR of this project is just to build another Arch-based distribution just to see how far I can take it. With the failure of my management of Illumarine, a much more complex project, I thought maybe I could do something like this and get something done. Basically it's a generic Arch install with a bunch of default apps, a simple and easy GUI like KDE and/or GNOME, and some generic installation tool.

2: A crappy Linux installer written in Electron

A simple plug-and play, easy to modify and stylize system installer for Linux written in Electron, or Tauri, whichever suits your boat.

3: An Electron alternative based on Bun and modern WebKit

The idea here is simple, make a better Electron but using WebKit and Bun as the runtime. I think it would be a very interesting project, and is definitely one of the ones I am more of the issue than the idea itself. I think Electron is good, but it could be much gooder.

4: Bootstrap v6 but even better

I am a Bootstrap fan, and I think it could do with a massive overhaul with modern CSS features. I might actually start working on this one because I have some cool ideas that I think could capture *a* market.

5: A CSS compiler

Like SASS/SCSS/LESS but based only on 99% vanilla syntax. No extra bullshit.

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