It's time again to take a state of the union and look at my various toy projects, their scope & state, how they intersect and what/where to go next. I'd like to take one and finalize it. But the first question is what am I trying to achieve, and how these project fulfil that?

Side note: this is a summary. I need to organize my project management too (yet another task) and maybe something like Trello or docs would be useful. Main issue to solve here is fragmentation of the info in different silos and lack of cross-linking.

Projects, in no particular order:

• Timeriffic 2
• Ikaria
• Cloud Bus
• Timer2 (aka T3 the reboot)
• Pixel game
• JS chrome offline app
• Home Music
• Home monitor
• Monitor webcam proxy
• Rig4mm

What I want/need, mostly in this order:

• Useful: Fix Music because I need it, not for the tech itself.
• Useful: Write the webcam proxy because I need it too, although it's a P2 at most.
• Only useful if I follow up with the HMon app rewrite.
• Write CloudBus phase 0 as a base foundation, not much to learn here..
• It's not clear how successful phase 0 would be, so interesting part is understand limitations & usage first. That is, have concrete usage scenarios for it.
• Ikaria is essentially a learning project. It's all about creating a base foundation that I can reuse whilst respecting guidelines and experimenting with testing.
• Same as with CloudBus, part of the design is understanding applications of it.
• Pixel game is the main "client" of Ikaria at this point.
• Timer2 as a T3-reboot is mostly a no-go for now.
• Timeriffic2 has been closed for a while.

Ikaria should merge with Black Editor and Hint-0.

Current project list, by descending priority.

• Finish Timer2 proto as a pure demo-proto:
• T2:
• GeoLoc personal app.
• LibStorage
• HMon
• Home Music App
• Hint: delayed again.

Linux Kernel is now in version 6.something.

The first version of Linux I used was Kernel 0.99, which I ran on my 286 PC back then. My machine was pretty beefy -- I had a full 1 MB of RAM, way more than the meager 640 kB needed by DOS !

We didn't have Internet at home back then. With a friend, we used the FTP at the university to download and write the 30 floppy 3 1/2 disks required to install it.

We used one of the classrooms and basically used 20 computers in parallel to fill the floppies, one copy for each of us.

Then at home I had to feed the 30 floppies back to back to install it. It was... something.

Now that may seem unusual but back then Windows 3 was distributed on a handful of floppies, and Office required up to a dozen floppies at some point.

That was way before we could afford CD readers.

A few years before that, I actually got a copy and ran MINIX on my Atari 1040STF. That only booted from 2 floppies, not bad.
(MINIX was a precursor from Linux, which Torvald learned from).
It was slow like molasses to get to the shell.
It was amazing but…
Then I realized... Why the heck am I using a multi-user environment on my home 16-bit computer?

The idea of having the computer do more than *one* thing at a time did not even make sense to me back then.