Zetema

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Tech challenges, ready to pick up.

Real problems people have written down in open-source issue trackers, developer threads and the gaps in public data. Every one is sourced, has a brief and a builder's kit, and is sized so a first version fits a weekend, a few weeks or a semester.

“There is no royal road to geometry.”
Euclid · as reported by Proclus
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  • Kit readyA few weeks

    Security & privacy · Anywhere

    Meshtastic users can't share their location on the mesh without risking showing where they live.

    Solved looks like

    A firmware setting for up to three privacy zones (centre and radius). Inside a zone, the position sent is rounded to the zone's precision; outside, the normal setting applies. Checked on a bench node with simulated GPS that the exact home position is never transmitted.

    Proof1 source · 3 quoted claims · github.com/meshtastic · Oct 2025

    Market11 reactions on the issue

    Kit5 steps · 22 tools · starter prompt ready

    1. Sourced (done)
    2. Kit (done)
    3. Wanted (next)
    4. Building
    5. Solved
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  • Kit readyA weekend

    Security & privacy · Anywhere

    Security scanners can't match some OSV vulnerability records by package URL because OSV.dev has no conversion for those ecosystems.

    Solved looks like

    Each remaining ecosystem gets a PURL converter with tests using the type in the PURL spec, or is listed as having no PURL equivalent, and a test fails whenever a new ecosystem is added without either.

    Proof1 source · 3 quoted claims · github.com/google · Oct 2026

    Market1 reactions on the issue

    Kit5 steps · 21 tools · starter prompt ready

    1. Sourced (done)
    2. Kit (done)
    3. Wanted (next)
    4. Building
    5. Solved
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  • Kit readyA few weeks

    Security & privacy · Anywhere

    Yarn users can't block a package update that suddenly arrives without the provenance its earlier versions had.

    Solved looks like

    A Yarn plugin or patch that, at install time, fails with a clear message when a package that had provenance in earlier versions resolves to a version without it. Tested against a local test registry with a downgrade case and a never-had-provenance case.

    Proof2 sources · 3 quoted claims · github.com/axios, github.com/yarnpkg · Apr 2026

    Market59 reactions on the issue

    Kit5 steps · 21 tools · starter prompt ready

    1. Sourced (done)
    2. Kit (done)
    3. Wanted (next)
    4. Building
    5. Solved
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