Curious Pandas

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Learn tech by breaking things.

From your first git commit to Kubernetes, the CNCF toolbox, neural networks and how vLLM serves a language model. Every lesson is something you can poke, break and fix - right here in your browser.

31 lessons ready, 1 more being written. Nothing to install.

Type anything

This is the exact name git would give that text as a file:

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Change one letter. The whole name changes - that is how git knows what changed without reading every byte. See it in your first commit.

1Play in the browser

Real-hash git, a cluster that self-heals and crashes, a neural network you can watch learn, a model server you can overload.

2Earn your stripes

Missions, quizzes and challenges earn XP, ranks and streaks - from Explorer to Architect. Kept in your browser, nowhere else.

3Do it for real

Each infrastructure lesson ends with the same thing on a real cluster, using the open tilt platform and its graded labs.

Eight trails

Works on the computer you have

Free learning sites usually die on the cost of hosting a lab machine for every learner. This one never hosts compute: your browser does the work, so it costs the same for ten learners or ten million - nothing - and no lesson's points are locked behind hardware.

Runs in your browser

Any laptop, Chromebook or phone. Nothing to install, nothing leaves your device.

Browser, uses your GPU

Optional extras that need WebGPU or a bit more memory. The page checks first and tells you plainly if your device cannot.

On your machine

The real tools via TemplateMechanics/tilt: Docker, kind and Tilt. About 15 GB of free disk and 8 GB of RAM to spare for the full platform.

In a free cloud dev box

For when your machine cannot run the platform: a dev container on your own free cloud quota. Planned, not built yet.

Check what your device can run →