What Would You Invent?

Some of the greatest inventions in the world have started from obscure ideas their inventors have had. What is yours?

Day Ten Prompt

This is the prompt to explore the inner inventor in yourself. Dust off the old notes that are sitting in the back of your brain and write about the thing that would make your life easier.

There is this idea in the open source software world that most projects start because someone had “an itch to scratch”. That’s just a fancy way of saying they had an idea, and they decided to actually do it. Many more of us have those itches, but we don’t pursue them. What itch would you scratch?

If You Could Invent Something to Make Your Life Easier, What Would It Be? How Would It Work?

Note: These prompts are being supplied as a completely optional item for you to use, if you are stuck on what to write. In fact, you might want to use one of the earlier prompts later in the month if you get stuck.

Leader Board Update

I’ve been giving this a bit of thought. I think posting the LeaderBoard in here twice a week should be sufficient to show the progress the participants are making in the goal. My current thought is to post it on Sunday and Thursday, but I might change the days if I think of a reason to.

Instead, I will supply the link to the LeaderBoard most days.

Resources

If you haven’t seen them already, we have two (hopefully) helpful documents:

And, if you didn’t have it already, here is the link to the TrackBear App.

Closing Note

If you haven’t posted before, leave us a comment below. We’d love to get to know all the participants in the event.

  • Mechanismatic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    13 days ago

    Just a note on the graphic. I’d recommend choosing a thicker font, a better contrasting font color, and not using the shadow effect. It can be difficult to read from an accessibility standpoint for some people.

    • Unattributed 𓂃✍︎@feddit.onlineOPMEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      Yeah, I kind of realize that looking back now… The colors were a deliberate choice: they are the same colors as used in the Fediverse logo. And, I thought the drop shadow effect helped with the contrast issue (hence it is about as minimal as I could make it and still get an effect from it).

      What I should have done instead was chosen a different background. Something that wouldn’t have caused the contrast issues.

      As for the font… Initially I had planned to actually use literal handwritten versions of the prompts, but when I went to make the images I found that they were not suitable. The font I chose was one that replicated the writing I had done, not perfected, but pretty similar.

      Hopefully having the text of the prompt in the message body helps.

      Basically, the next time I do this, the whole thing will be done differently. (More likely more visually interesting.)

      (For that matter, I think I need to redo the FediiWriMo logo…it needs some work.)