28 Sep 2021
Future ideas
I use this page to keep track of potential ideas for new webpages, or additions to existing webpages. This isn't a to-do list where I plan on doing all of these things, but rather just a place where I throw ideas around and will look through when I next feel like writing something:
Business and finance
- Businesses to avoid and why
- Explanation of planned obsolescence
- Thoughts on copyright
- Why and how to be more frugal
Comics
- Beginner's guides (where to start, differences between formats, where to buy etc)
- My favourite comics, characters, artists and writers
- Recommendations per publisher, character, writer, etc
- Reading order guide
- Thoughts on continuity
- Explanation of the ages of comics (Golden Age, Silver Age etc)
- Resources (Video creators, sellers, blogs, upcoming releases websites, etc)
Culture
- Can and should you separate the art from the artist?
- Can and should videogames, comics and other relatively new forms of media be considered as art?
- High and Low art (e.g the distinction between them, whether the distinction is a good thing, etc)
- Is beauty subjective?
- My personal taste
- What makes something a classic or great work, and why they're still valuable today?
- Why art and beauty matters
- The value of physical media vs digital (books, vinyl, etc)
DIY and self-sufficiency
- Sweethome3D tutorial
- To-do and To-buy list. Ideally create a Sweethome3D mockup of both current home and the ideal of what it would look like with all changes made, and include screenshots of each to explain changes.
- Tutorials for self-hosting or VPS-hosting your own website, e-mail server, chat server etc
Politics
- Overview of my views, possibly have additional pages for topics I have more to say on
- Political compass test and/or similar tests. Include explanations for my choices, the results of the test, and my thoughts on the test.
Religion, spirituality, supernatural etc
- Further explanation of why I believe what I believe
- Thoughts on the supernatural in general (not just how it relates to religion), e.g magic, the occult, ghosts, lucid dreaming, astral projection etc
Social
- Do online communities help or hinder a hobby more? Is it better to just enjoy the hobby in and of itself?
- Why originality is overrated (explain the psychology of why people find new and fresh things alluring, but that nobody owns ideas, that when you say something said before you are sharing not stealing, that even if you have nothing new to add, simply repeating things you learned elsewhere helps by spreading good ideas, and that many of the innovators in history still emulated or were heavily inspired by those that came before them, and many things that seem new are simply rebranded ideas (for example at the time of writing, minimalism is considered a popular modern trend treated as something new, but it's actually comes from the ancient ideal of asceticism)
Self
- Questions and answers
- List of things I'm out of touch with
Technology
- Emacs tutorials (both basic functionality and tutorials for specific packages)
- List of free software alternatives to proprietary software, and tutorials on how to use them
- Tutorials on installing Linux, using the command line, package managers and so on
- What is free software and reasons to consider switching to free software
- Why I like Emacs and why people should consider using it
- Benefits of RSS
- Torrenting guide (both how to torrent, and which websites I recommend)
Television and film
- Doctor Who watching progress
- Recommendations
- Reviews
- Theories/headcanon
Videogames
- My favourite videogames and games consoles
- Reviews
- Tutorials on how to get into retro gaming (e.g games/consoles to start with, how to get the best picture quality, pros and cons of buying original hardware vs emultating, etc)