Nutshell is a really useful way to embed information from other websites in a convenient way. It works sorta like those hover boxes on wikipedia allowing you to learn more about a related subject without leaving the current thing you’re reading.
For those of you who don’t know, Nicky Case releases really interesting interactive things that are Open Source and CC0.
A project you’ve likely seen in the past was this project called :the game: that was extremely popular on Newgrounds back in the day.
or this game called We Become What We Behold
heres a link to their projects https://ncase.me/ they’re all really thought provoking and made to help you learn about things in an interactive and entertaining way.
They also write really well thought out blog posts, here’s my favorite post they made that’s called Evolution not Revolution and talks about how so many uprising and revolutions that were “successful” led to the current authoritarians being replaced with another set of authoritarians with no progress for the people actually being made.
Gotta love Nicky Case, they drew me a sketch for helping them test Nothing to Hide. Their explorable explanation for trust is a favourite, along with Parable of the Polygons.
The idea is nice, but it’s kind of sad that it requires JavaScript.
If it wasn’t designed for static sites with no pre-parser/compiler, this could be recreated with no JS, but just using the HTML5<details>element and some CSS to draw boxes and realign stuff.That would be nice, maybe someone will fork it to make a verison without javascript
Since this is all JavaScript there’s not really much to fork I think, you would need to write everything (not really a lot) from scratch
As I said though, the idea is nice, I could probably implement it as a new feature for my own static site generator, as a replacement to wiki-like footnotes (the concept I currently use to move additional information away from the content body)
if you do it please share it!
even if it would be a rewrite I think it would be useful submit it as a js-less fork so it could be discovered when on the original’s github
Aw, I was hoping for another game like We Become What We Behold or Adventures with Anxiety. Nutshell does look super useful, though.
Really like this format, I’ve always wanted to write guides/tutorials this way. Unfortunately the writing of it is a bit complex
