Neal Agarwal makes playful interactive web projects, such as Infinite Craft, The Password Game, Size of Space, and The Deep Sea.
HN links it for his interactive toys. Commenters mention pieces like Cursor Camp and Internet Artifacts, and call the stimulation clicker brilliant but monstrous.
Lovely, as all neal.fun experiments. <3
My favorite is probably https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/
This type of interactive learning experience reminds me of how fun it was to browse Encarta back in the day. It was full of interesting facts, presented in fun interactive ways. As much as I love that we have Wikipedia today, a static web page with text and limited multimedia is far less engaging and conducive to learning.
I think that Neal Agarwal and Bartosz Ciechanowski should be sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation to create similar experiences on Wikipedia. That would do so much to facilitate learning for students of all ages.
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Interests: creative (video/board) game design/dev (e.g. tiny games exploring philosophical and societal topics), food (including pizza/breadmaking, cheesemaking and fermentation), travelling, nature, camping, hiking, hacking, unique and creative anime/manga/books, whittling, gardening (no dig, regenerative), Ted Chiang, Victorian travelogues and relaxation.
Language(s): English
Link to something you think is cool:
- https://neal.fun/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tatami_Galaxy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malay_Archipelago
Contact info: hn-penpal.dingy454@simplelogin.com
A few non-fiction stories I love:
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/ - Gives me the feeling of wonder I'd had as a kid looking at "explore the world" type picture books...
https://ncase.me/trust/ - Really everything by Nicky Case is top notch, but I particularly enjoy this one.
Fiction:
http://memories.sutueatsflies.com/ - Love the way the words flow over the pictures.
https://www.featherbuuble.com - My own humble attempt from a few years ago... so much fun making this.
I am especially excited for the Smart ComboBox:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-smart-components/#smart-combobox
In general, I see the idea of semantic matching instead of textual matching as one of the great, pragmatic applications of the current technology.
Somewhat related fun application of this concept is this: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ (the combination outputs are generated by LLMs)
I used to love... - https://shift.jp.org/ - https://dhky.com - https://praystation.com - https://burodestruct.net/ - https://www.netbabyworld.com/
I feel good about the future when I see... https://os.ryo.lu/ https://neal.fun/
Somewhere on a zip are my IE 5.5 bookmarks. I'll stumble upon them again one day and remember how excited I was to surf the web on my 233mhz G3.
It would be great for the movie theater to be able to play any video, like the movie theater in Cursor Camp that multiple players can watch together. Then you could watch the extremely weird original SimTower movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8o7gg87k4
Cursor Camp:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949939
https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/