Ask HN: What is something you always wanted to program?

2 points·dattl··8 comments

A roguelike. I get started and then one of the following seems to happen:

- I become disillusioned with the whole project and walk away

- I get distracted by another technology

- Laziness sets in and I spend my time playing roguelikes instead of programming one.

Are you tempted by 7 day roguelikes, or do they fall to the same problems?

I actually followed the last 7DRL fairly closely and I'm definitely tempted by them. I've considered trying to give the next one a shot.

I think having a deadline and the goal of creating a smaller, playable roguelike really appeals to me.

Stuff that's close to the hardware:

- Embedded software to control any kind of interesting device in real time (industrial machinery, vehicles, robots, disk drives, etc.).

- Operating system kernel code.

I had a little bit of experience doing this in school (took some hardware classes; hacked a Unix device driver), but that was a long time ago and I haven't done anything like that since then.

Grab a raspberry pi 2 starter kit. I just ordered one for $84.99 shipped from Amazon.

The damn thing runs on Linux now. I'm about to have a lot of fun with some raspberry pi projects!

A global illumination raytracer. A subdivision surface modeller. A surround audio mixer.

AI software that finds a pattern in popular songs and produces hits. i will probably never write it but it may give someone an idea.

Particle physics. Simulate air movement, the weather, chemical reactions etc.

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