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Not everything needs to make money. These are projects built purely for the joy of building them.

Nike Command

Live

Missile Command, 1959 edition. Bombers, ICBMs, and MIRVs rain down on six American cities while you burst Nike interceptors under them from an amber radar scope. Every dollar you earn banks between runs — spend it in the armory on Hercules missiles, more batteries, better radar, and eventually the nuclear option.

Companion game to the Nike Missile Explorer below.

Currahee — An Easy Company Field Archive

Live

A 1944 War Department dossier on the real Easy Company, 506th PIR — the men Ambrose's Band of Brothers and their own memoirs made famous. Ten reels: run Currahee against the clock, ride a C-47 into the Normandy night, silence the Brécourt guns step by step, hold the Bois Jacques in the snow, work the 85-points arithmetic, and read the men's own books on the shelf. Every fact sourced; earn stamps on your service record as you go.

Built in the open with Claude Code.

Nike Missile Explorer

Live

A blow-apart explorer for the Nike Ajax and Hercules — the Cold War missiles that once ringed American cities. One button explodes the missile into labeled cross-sections, Stephen Biesty style, and every part tells its story. A museum exhibit you can click through — the National Park Service still tours a restored Nike site in the Marin Headlands; this is the version you can visit from your couch.

Built in the open with Claude Code.

I've written about the fun v profit tradeoff before. This page is the fun column.