You found the page about the page.
A colophon, in the old printing sense: how this site is made, what it refuses to include, and what it hides.
Construction
- Version
- v2.0.0. The site is a product; products have releases.
- Framework
- Next.js 16 with React Server Components
- Styling
- Tailwind CSS 4, one warm-neutral palette, hairline borders
- Type
- SF Pro and SF Mono from the system. Zero webfont bytes.
- Sound
- A tiny WebAudio synthesizer. No audio files ship with the site.
- Motion
- CSS transitions and an IntersectionObserver. Nothing else.
- Weight
- No analytics, no cookies, no tracking of any kind
- Source of truth
- One data file, plus live reads of the GitHub API
Themes
One minimal site underneath; seven coats of paint on top. The retro ones are approximations built from memory and affection, not from anyone's brand assets.
Light
The default. Paper and ink.
theme light
Dark
Same site, lights off.
theme dark
Windows XP
Luna blue. It is 2003 somewhere.
theme xp
Windows 98
Beveled edges and teal desktop.
theme win98
System 7
One bit of color is plenty.
theme mac
Green CRT
Phosphor and scanlines.
theme crt
Amber CRT
The warmer terminal.
theme amber
Field guide to the easter eggs
Most of them. Cataloguing all of them would defeat the purpose.
- ?Keyboard shortcuts panel
- ⌘K or /Command menu, including one command that does nothing
- >Computer mode. A full terminal, with its own undocumented commands
- TCycle through every theme
- DLight and dark, without a settings page
- MThe synthesizer, on and off
- G then a letterJump to any page, including this one
- ↑↑↓↓←→←→BABlueprint mode. See how the grid is built.
- The ✕ buttonIn a windowed theme, try closing the window. Three times.
- The consoleThere is a note waiting in your devtools
There are also a few words you can simply type. One is a name. One is from a cave. Three are operating systems.
Set in nothing but the fonts your machine already had. Built by hand, kept small on purpose.
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