Great Impractical Ideas for the Far and Possibly Infinitely Far or Maybe Not so Far Future

Random silly ridiculous things we thought about doing at some point in the future but never really thought carefully about actually doing at some point in the future.

• Implement a version control system
• Memorise CFOP
• Try ortholinear
• Use emacs
• Become fluent in Esperanto
• Hitchhike
• PhD
• Postdoc
• Learn Finnish
• Implement a vector database
• Use generative model to make fractal art
• Learn German
• Build a second order PAO system
• Visit Mars
• Design and implement a programming language
• Piano mastery
• Become fluent in bash script
• Make siphon coffee
• Design a font
• Program in Game of Life
• Build a game engine from scratch
• Become a physicist
• Build fusion reactor
• Write code at an observatory
• Fly a plane
• Learn Elvish
• Write novels and publish
• Crack Cicada 3301
• Write a (buggy) operating system (@15-410)
• Run a math/CS YouTube channel
• Memorise many digits of $\pi$
• Make a film
• Act in a film
• Write a shader
• Build a synthesiser
• Go off grid
• Write a useful programme for a quantum computer
• Play tuba
• Perform live coding in Orca
• Be able to do extra fancy latte art
• Make world record on Code Golf
• 200 wpm typing speed
• Understand Japanese anime without subtitle
• Implement a parser generator
• Implement an ML framework

Things that actually got off this list…

• Write a compiler