Definitely agree! I spent so many hours reading BYTE and Computer World and OMNI - and learned so much along the way. If y'all are interested in visualizing and exploring older computer magazines: https://thestacks.dev :)
I’ve always been obsessed with the "Depths of Wikipedia" -- those weird connections you find between totally unrelated topics. I built https://on-the-same.page to gamify that experience, and to help spark new serendipitous discoveries + learn new facts.
It’s a web app that lets a player race from Topic A to Topic B, embedded in the browser (and gamified with a global leaderboard).
Technical details:
- Built using AI Studio and Antigravity.
- Uses Firestore to handle state management.
- Deployed via Cloud Run.
It’s currently live at https://on-the-same.page. Let me know if you find any dead ends or if you have feature requests! And please suggest new topics for the explorations; will turn this into a model eval for computer use after getting enough examples. :)
Reimagined NASA’s Space Math curriculum (https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/) as an immersive game, instead of static PDFs. Students solve the same problems real scientists face daily -- calculating orbits and trajectories, dealing with space weather, etc. -- in an interactive way that goes beyond worksheets (or just sending PDFs to an LLM).
Powered by Gemini for storytelling and text-to-speech (TTS). Links to the GitHub repo and live link that you can play above, thanks to Google Cloud Run. Please file feature requests, if there's enough interest will add more missions and a leaderboard.