explorable-explanation

An explorable, zoomable picture of how the internet works: from Wi‑Fi to the fibre under the sea, today and in 1995.

La Alegría 🇦🇷 — a bilingual (EN/ES) interactive explorable explanation of Argentina's 2026 World Cup run: refereeing & FBI-probe gossip examined honestly, with three sims, an LLM chat over the compiled research, and a self-grading re-run loop. Astro + TypeScript.

Compose two concurrent transactions, step through them, and watch the anomaly your isolation level allows.

Why the London Millennium Bridge wobbled. Open it in a browser: a crowd walking out of step makes the deck run away anyway, because people leaning against a moving floor are a shock absorber wired backwards. Toggle to the storybook synchrony mechanism and watch it need a different crowd.

Interactive explanations of backend systems. Kafka, by behaviour: dual writes, partitions, rebalances, offsets and dead letters — simulated in the browser.

An interactive acoustics plate: build a note out of sixteen sine waves and hear why a clarinet isn't a violin. No runtime dependencies.

Interactive primer on coupled thermo–hydro–mechanical processes in porous media — nine chapters, every figure solved live in the browser.

An interactive essay on what happens when an apex predator is removed from an ecosystem — through alpha-gal, lone star ticks, and Lotka–Volterra dynamics.

Sixteen interfaces that only exist above a million tokens per second. Nothing here runs a model: the text is hand-written, and every duration is arithmetic on a rate you drag yourself.