Big things:

• Implement something on the Rust ORM Butane - it’s basically an ORM that doesn’t require you to write a single line of SQL as a user
• Write a Signal client using the slint GUI framework
• Write an anonymised job search and interview platform
  • users profiles are anonymous to anybody but themselves and the platform
  • interviews are either text based, or audio/video with voice modulation + avatars (like V-tubers)
  • “challenges” are gamified e.g “a normal in the office” where candidates play out typical scenarios that happen in the office
• a neovim plugin configuration GUI (LUA + whatever you like)
• start writing a new, embeddable browser engine and document it
  • it should be a library first --> forces you to think of how its API will be consumed
  • write a reference client that uses the engine as the example usecase

Medium ?

• A static code analyser that spits out which languages are used in a project and which languages features e.g
  • this project has 70% c++ of which 30% of all know C++ features are used (templates, operator overloading, multiple inheritance, auto, constexpr, goto, static_cast, dynamic_cast, copy constructor, …)
• resume.json import/export for different job search platforms
• A CLI tool that takes an audio file as input and outputs a visualisation as a video
• Write a package for linux to act as a bluetooth audio sink, scenario:
  • user wants to stream music from their phone to a speaker (without buying extra hardware)
  • admin installs $btAudioSink on existing linux box with bluetooth hardware
  • admin connects linuxbox to speakers
  • user turns on bluetooth
  • user sees linux box as a set of speakers
  • user connects and plays music
  • music is header from speakers connected to linuxbox

Small ?

• A simple “hash to file/url” website
  • User enters a hash, gets URL to that hash
  • User enters a hash, gets top 10 filename for that hash

Got a few more ideas, but didn’t write them all down in my notebook.