While working on my side-projects, I keep on coming back to the need to have interactive content, to have something tangible. A great example of interactive content that inspired me is Red Blob Games. Working as a backend software engineer is very abstract and I miss having a clear visual representation of what I’m working on. Visualizations and interactivity are so good at bringing a concept across.
I deeply believe in Interactive Content as the best way to learn, understand and explain something. I did an initial attempt on this website with ➰ Bezier Curves, but now I have taken it a big step forward with Interactive Tutorials on TurtlePages. The next iteration on Bezier Curves can be found in the Bezier Curves interactive Tutorial, but there are many more tutorials to be found.
The Interactive Tutorials are hosted on a separate website because the tools that I’m using (🪨 Obsidian and 💎 Quartz), don’t really support interactive content out of the box the way that I would want to. This new website is based on Astro and uses 🔻 MDX to create the interactive components embedded in the Markdown files.