#programming ideas

[intothestacks]

Idea for a partnership with local museums for public libraries

The trick for grownup museums with kids is making a scavenger hunt for them related to the collection.

When I was 12 my friend & I went with my mom to the Louvre and she made a scavenger hunt for us beforehand. She had to drag us out at closing time practically kicking and screaming.

It might be interesting to partner up with local museums to have kits that parents can take out that come with a pass and scavenger hunt worksheets that can be filled out and exchanged for a sticker or other small prize at the museum (or the library, idk).

[legowerewolf]

Cooperative Commissions: a platform idea

alright, was chilling out on the hijack discord and had a brainwave. here goes:

What do you do if you'd like to commission something from an artist, but you don't have the money? Well, you either suffer, or you save up for a long time, or you get a bunch of friends to pitch in together.

That last one is the thing I want to address here.

I envision a platform where:

Users pitch commission ideas to artists.

The artist decides that either they won't do the thing at all and the idea gets discarded, or they will do the thing. They set a price and make the idea public.

Public ideas can get voted on similar to Kickstarter projects. You don't get charged until the whole thing has been committed to.

Once an idea is funded, it goes into the artist's queue to be worked on in roughly the order they were funded.

Once it's fulfilled, everyone who backed the idea gets the art, and then the artist can set a price for latecomers to buy it too.

I really like this idea. I would absolutely use this if it was a thing and my favorite artists were on it. If someone builds this, or already has, please let me know.

As for building it myself? No. "Anything handling Real Money" is on my list of things to never program for. I refuse to work on things that, when they get hacked (and assholes will try, because money), will cause real problems for people.

[winthropsghostkitten]

I almost want to propose this as a library program.

[mango-ti]

[yhwcomeback]

Had the vision that if golden Lloyd uses the power of destruction + golden power it just creates a black hole

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[zuzu-draws]

Stardew Valley Bachelor Portrait Sukuna, anyone?? (I made some quick pixelated gifs while musing lolol)

I wonder how many folks would romance him in-game 🤔 Make your attendance here, folks ✋

[berrythefish]

I may have started to love this little guy..

I couldn't just not draw him

[amelia-yap]

vomits another AU

[vidapon]

[intothestacks]

An easy activity to plan/execute for Littles who believe in Santa

I covered for a coworker at last year's winter festival at our elementary school and the craft she had was genius.

What you'll need:

A bag of plain instant oatmeal (uncooked!)

A large bowl for the oatmeal

1 or more baking scoopers

Glitter of as many colours as you'd like

A ziplock bag

What to do:

Give each participatting kid a ziplock bag. They then scoop some oats and sprinkle glitter on it.

What did you just make?

Reindeer food! :D

You sprinkle it outside your house the night before Christmas so they have a tasty snack to eat while Santa delivers human goodies. (plus the glitter helps tell them where to land like an airplane runway). :)

I had a couple kids worry about whether it was safe for reindeer to eat glitter and my response was that this was special reindeer-safe glitter (we checked!). It's not safe for humans but for reindeer it's fine; kind of like dog biscuits.

They seemed to find my explanation pretty legit and solidly logical.

[aulerean]

gem's angler fish? pretty cool.

[ihatebrainstorm]

[Intrusion]

My uh.. my Brainstorm hc voice.........? Don't ask why I put this much effort into it

ALSO LINK TO OG VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di7pxNivACE&t=1444s

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[cubbihue]

So, a changeling is sort of like a p-zombie?

(For the unaware, “p-zombie” stands for “philosophical zombie”. It’s a thought experiment in philosophy that describes a being that’s outwardly identical to a human, but does not have a consciousness; that is, a p-zombie does not think whatsoever, although it looks like it thinks to an outsider observer. There’s a whole wikipedia article on it that explains the concept better than I can!)

They don't exactly think, as in "I dont want this" "I like that". But, Changelings do have a form of "Consciousness". It's just that their consciousness is more like a series of commands or tasks than actual formulated thoughts.

Timmy's Changeling has a very advanced "consciousness". It can predict future actions and reroute its tasks to pick only the best options for its situation.

We fill their heads with static to ensure that the Changeling does not form thoughts about anything. Thoughts leads to opinions, and opinions leads to incorrect actions. A proper Changeling should have more static in their mind than a TV screen on a defunct channel!

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[queenie-ofthe-void]

Eighteen year old Steve Harrington gets arrested for vandalism.

Nineteen year old Eddie Munson gets picked up for smoking weed.

Thankfully, both are picked up by Chief Hopper, who pulls enough strings so they can serve their time via community service volunteering for The Big Brother Big Sister Program.

Dustin's a mild-to-moderate level genius eleven year old. He and his mom are new to town and he's having a hard time making friends after his dad left them. Based on similar likes and interests, he's paired with Eddie.

Max is an eleven year old spit-fire with a strong distaste for authority. Her mom uprooted her from California to live with a step father who drinks and an older brother who loathes her. Based on general attitude problems and unwillingness to cooperate with every other Big she's been assigned, she's paired with Steve.

When the organization hosts social hour once a week, Dustin always goes looking for Max. She's annoyed by him, but she's annoyed by everyone. So when she meets El and the boys, Max makes sure to drag Dustin along with her.

Steve can't stand Eddie. Not only is Steve struggling to wrangle Max into liking him (or even just listening when he talks) but he's forced to deal with Eddie the more their kids spend time together. The guy's a prick, just a huge, judgmental asshole with a superiority complex a mile wide. He's practically perfect for Dustin.

Eddie resents everything about Steve. Eddie's constantly on the verge of a sensory melt down every second he spends with Dustin, and every moment with The Party means more time with the ex-jock, wannabe has-been, who gets away with whatever he wants because of daddy's pretty silver spoon in his mouth. No wonder Max has an attitude problem.