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+Document: WM-013                                                 P. Webb
+Category: Project                                             2017.07.27
+
+                           Neglected Projects
+
+Abstract
+
+   A/k/a, I'm easily excitable and distracted on a regular basis.
+
+Body
+
+   The name of my company is "Ideas Never Cease" (!NC) because with me,
+   it's true. Ideas, never *ever* cease. I am unable to turn my mind off
+   and it has been this way since I was eight. At 29 now, stopping isn't
+   remotely possible and I like that.
+
+   The downside, of course, is that…ideas never cease. This means I get
+   super focused on a great idea and work on it for some time and
+   *juuuuust* when things are starting to get interesting, I get
+   distracted by another great idea and the cycle continues. What does
+   *not* continue, obviously, is progress on those previous ideas…until
+   six months to a full year later. Sometimes, even longer than that!
+
+   📸[The notebook my fiancé bought for me][IMG1]
+
+   My fiancé recently bought me a dot grid notebook because it has gold
+   and marble on the cover, which matches my laptop[1] a bit. I decided
+   to use that notebook to keep track of my weekly duties and the
+   thought occurred to me to write down my neglected projects. Then I
+   figured I'd share with the world because, why not? I've been busy
+   with redesigning BeautyLynk[2] and building BeachfrontDigital[3] so
+   that's my excuse for not working on these projects.
+
+   📸[Some of my neglected projects][IMG2]
+
+   1. DSGN
+
+      I want to start a small web design and development firm so I can
+      make 1) my own hours and 2) more money so I can spend more time on
+      passion projects that I *really* want to work on and not expect a
+      profit from them. To do that, I need to actually *design* and code
+      the new website[4].
+
+      The good news is that BeautyLynk and BeachfrontDigital will make
+      great initial case studies.
+
+   2. FRSH×BTS
+
+      Man, I haven't created music in *years*. My claim to fame is that
+      when I released "Music from the Love Lounge Vol. 1", people in
+      Barcelona/Belize were jamming to it. Or at the very least, one
+      person and their friend was. "FRSH×BTS" is the production name I
+      go by, "the Wibby" and "Spaceman Fresh" being my rap aliases.
+
+      I have my music on Bandcamp[5] at the moment because I never got
+      around to creating the perfect website for `frsh.fm`. In addition
+      to that, I want to remaster *all* my old work. This means getting
+      a Windows machine, installing Windows 7 and Acid Pro, inspecting
+      the arrangements, and replicating them in Studio One. I have a
+      boatload of tracks in progress that are great jump off points for
+      new songs and I don't want to lose those. As you can imagine,
+      getting my catalogue remastered is quite the undertaking.
+
+      *Le sigh*.
+
+      Oh, and I still haven't released "Waveform", my debut album. When
+      I listen to it though, the only glaring issues I hear are vocal
+      quality and leveling.
+
+   3. WEÖM
+
+      Short for "Wisdom Escapes Ordinary Minds", WEÖM[6] is a
+      space-centric lifestyle brand I started a few years ago. People
+      seem to like the snapback I designed better than the t-shirt and I
+      can understand why. The hat is dope and I wear it everyday!
+
+      📸[Lakeisha and Sarah wearing WEÖM gear][IMG3]
+
+      I have done a *shitty* job of advertising it and generating buzz.
+      Obviously, that's the only way I'm going to sell all the stock I
+      have but I have a hard time being a salesperson. Ideally, someone
+      else would be doing this for me and taking a cut of the profits.
+      Also, I need to design more products. Again, I have ideas for them
+      but haven't gone further than sketches.
+
+   4. !NC
+
+      I created a web browser, dubbed "Aries", a few years ago just to
+      see if I could do it and it actually worked. Not only that, but
+      people reached out to me to tell me how much they liked the design
+      and how it worked. Then…I moved onto another project. I was using
+      Opera as my main browser back then and now I'm using Vivaldi but I
+      still have plenty of interesting ideas to challenge the way we
+      think of desktop web browsers.
+
+      📸[Aries screenshot][IMG4]
+
+      "Hermes" is the name I'm giving the desktop email client I intend
+      to work on at some point. Back when the latest iPhone was 5, I
+      used a neat mobile email app called "SquareOne Mail[7]" and I
+      friggin' *loved* it. You could train the app to put your email
+      into categories you created so only the *most* important messages
+      appeared in your inbox. I've heard that Gmail can do something
+      similar with filters but I run my own email server. The team
+      behind SquareOne got investors and were persuaded to pivot into
+      something (IMHO quite) boring…I don't even remember what it was.
+      Anyhoo, Hermes would be an evolved version of the original.
+
+   5. SciLab
+
+      I've saved the best for last. Prepare for a lot of backstory.
+
+      If you follow me on social media or other online networks, you may
+      have wondered at some point what a "NetOp" or "NetOperator" is.
+      Well, that comes from a beloved video game series, called "Megaman
+      Battle Network" (MMBN). There are six main games in the series and
+      the timeline is set in the year 20XX…yes, like other Megaman
+      games. In this future, everyone has an A.I. companion called an
+      "Internet Navigator", or "NetNavi" for short. The people who
+      operate these A.I.s are often referred to as NetOperators. So,
+      combined with my rap alias you read earlier, NetOperator Wibby
+      became my online handle of choice.
+
+      Also in this future? A 3D Internet and a futuristic device
+      (Personal Terminal, or PET) that is basically a smartphone. Not so
+      revolutionary-sounding but when the first game came out (2001), it
+      was mind-blowing and captured my imagination. Can you see where
+      I'm going with this? *The ideas never ceased.*
+
+      It became quite clear to me that this awesome-sounding future had
+      to exist because…reasons. Like…it's awesome. But, how was *I*
+      going to make this happen? I was only 13 at the time with a *lot*
+      of time on my hands. *Good grief, I spent 16 years thinking about
+      this stuff* 😰
+
+      When I (briefly) attended college, I enrolled in Software
+      Engineering for the *sole purpose* of learning how to write an
+      operating system, even if it was from a middle-aged man with
+      *impeccable* bright white facial hair and a tendency to
+      accidentally spit on students in the front row. However, I was
+      forced to leave because I found out I couldn't afford college.
+      That dashed my dreams a bit but I taught myself web design and
+      development, got an apprenticeship, and eventually landed
+      good-paying jobs and skills that led me to think, "What if I just…
+      *wrote* an 'operating system' in HTML/CSS/JS?". This is how
+      *hikari OS[8]* was born! For those keeping score at home, "hikari"
+      is the creator of the 3D Internet and NetNavis in MMBN. Hey,
+      innovation is a family business.
+
+      *hikari is an Electron app that will be designed to boot from a
+      minimal Linux distro in fullscreen on a Raspberry Pi.* It's like
+      Chrome OS in a way. Anyhoo, I worked on hikari for awhile and got
+      distracted, of course.
+
+      For my NetNavi project, I'd need a good voice
+      recognition/synthesis library and currently, Google is the best
+      for that and I don't consider them an option because they are
+      beyond terrible with user privacy. I'm not sure why they need to
+      store your voice commands on their servers for an unspecified
+      amount of time but hey, that's what happens when things are free.
+      I'm not expecting my NetNavi project to be considered "real A.I.".
+      Siri, Cortana, and everything else are just elaborate
+      `if`/`then`/`else` statements. The PET is low priority because the
+      base being a Raspberry Pi makes things super easy (like, creating
+      a dock station, &c).
+
+      Lastly, the 3D Internet. In my research, I got downvoted to hell
+      across a couple StackExchange sites (I was told to ask a different
+      site, at least four times). In hindsight, that's what I get for
+      going there for useful advice.
+
+      With regard to "NetCity" in the MMBN anime, I sketched a process
+      that would allow for the automatic generation of buildings based
+      on how deep a website's links went. Take this site for example! I
+      have four main links in the header. Each of those links would
+      represent a different floor. Each page's contents would be
+      represented on each floor depending on what it was. Blog posts
+      would become eBooks, mp3s would become a CD, and so on. Just like
+      search engine bots visit your website every now and then, so would
+      this 3D 'Net bot and it would report changes that would update
+      your generated building.
+
+      This 3D 'Net would be accessed via "the Network", which is
+      effectively an MMORPG where your NetNavi is your avatar. Aries
+      would have a built-in viewer for this, although I'd probably just
+      use three.js.
+
+      …This is going off the rails, I understand that. This is also
+      going to cost a *fuck* ton of money. Yes, the fuck was necessary
+      because unless I become super rich in the next 10 years, what I'm
+      seeing in my head will never see the light of day until I'm 60…
+      y'know what, that's around the age Grandpa Hikari created the
+      Internet. Also, I just realized that he looks like a chubby
+      Vint Cerf.
+
+   &c
+
+      I could go on and on about my project backlog. Here's a few more
+      that are in the incubation stage of my ideation process:
+
+      - social network that doesn't suck, enables better communication,
+        provides ways for users to deal with harassment, and makes money
+        without selling user data.
+      - an outlet that showcases black excellence, positivity, and
+        training resources to aid small business owners and
+        aspiring freelancers.
+      - an eCommerce platform that allows for true customization,
+        doesn't treat you like you're dumb, and has a
+        self-hosted option.
+      - a curated site for lefties that doesn't look like it was built
+        in 1999 and stayed that way.
+
+      I'll get to these projects some day. I've attempted to work on
+      things on a schedule but my mind/enthusiasm doesn't work that way.
+      I'm using a dot grid notebook as a weekly planner instead of the
+      weekly planner I bought months ago, simply because predefined
+      lines and boxes make me feel constrained. I'm not quite sure what
+      the solution is but I think if I had more time (hah, don't we all
+      want this?) and made my own hours, I could figure this thing out.
+      Or at the very least, start knocking things out one by one. 🕸
+
+References
+
+   [1]    </WM-004>
+   [2]    <https://beautylynk.com>
+   [3]    <https://beachfront.digital>
+   [4]    <https://dsgn.io>
+   [5]    <https://thewibby.bandcamp.com>
+   [6]    <https://weom.space>
+   [7]    <https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/05/squareone-for-iphone-organizes-your-email-gives-you-better-control-over-notifications>
+   [8]    <https://hikar.io>
+   [IMG1] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2017/neglected-projects-a.jpg>
+   [IMG2] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2017/neglected-projects-b.jpg>
+   [IMG3] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2017/neglected-projects-c.jpg>
+   [IMG4] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2017/neglected-projects-d.png>