Can it run Doom?

One of my favorite activities with my kids is visiting science museums, especially the interactive ones. Pull a lever, twist a knob, press a button, and watch the effects of gravity, light, or fluid dynamics come to life. It’s so much better than just reading about it!

Content creators have recently started applying the same approach to long-form articles. Some concepts are simply better explained through experimentation. It’s more engaging and rewarding for the reader.

Unfortunately, most publishing platforms don’t make it easy to create this kind of content. Right now, it’s mostly developers who have access to it.

I want to change that by introducing a new feature at fika: Snippets. Snippets let you easily embed interactive elements within your article.

For now, you’ll need to code the Snippets yourself or rely on your LLM of choice. I may integrate this into the product later, but let me show you how it works with an example.

Imagine I want to represent a double pendulum and it’s chaotic nature. I will prompt in ChatGPT.

Create an html document with a simulation of a double pendulum that leaves a trail of their edge. Transparent background, 400px height. The pendulum is black and the traces are pastel blue

Once it’s done, click on copy code and then I paste it inside an article snippet. It looks like this:

Beautiful! I’m a developer myself, but I don’t know the physics of pendulums by heart.

So once we’ve demonstrated that you can add Snippets to your articles, the next question is whether the title of this article is just clickbait, or if it actually delivers.

Can it run Doom? Yes of course!