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Tools, visualizations, games, creative experiments — if it runs in a browser, it belongs here.

Sun Orbit Intuition

I saw a tweet the other day talking about how it was harder to "blast something into the sun" than it was to leave the solar system. I realized I didn't really have an intuition for why that was, so I had Claude build me an interactive toy to try to figure out why that's the case.

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Highlight experiment

I felt the classic on/off highlighting with CSS was a bit too flickery. So I coded up this test to try out different ways to do it. "Smooth" uses movement (of one object) and "Fade" uses a an animation of multiple ones. Use the duration slider. This was more about human perception than technical implementation. I personally find a short "Fade" to be the best

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Software Factory Defense

A prototype for a tower defense-inspired game where you build and manage a software factory. Work comes in at different intervals with different requirements and you have to build out a software factory to handle the different variations and types of work efficiently.

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