This site is a love letter to the bulletin board systems and window managers of early computing. Neon phosphor on black glass, tiled windows, monospace everything.
The visual language draws from BBS interfaces, 90s desktop environments, and CRT terminals. Hard edges, no rounded corners, window chrome with draggable title bars and minimize/maximize/close buttons. Scanline overlays and neon glow effects complete the retro feel.
Neon accents on near-black backgrounds, chosen for maximum CRT authenticity and comfortable reading in dark environments.
Built with Astro, a static-first framework that prerenders every page at build time. Small interactive islands hydrate on the client only where needed. Everything else ships as plain HTML and CSS. If you're building a content site, seriously consider Astro.
Content is data-driven: blog posts sync from a separate publishing pipeline, projects and experiments live as structured data files that the build reads at compile time. No CMS, no admin panel.
Several projects showcased on this site are open source. You can find them all on GitHub:
The web used to feel handmade. Personal sites had personality: visitor counters, guestbooks, webrings, under-construction banners. This site tries to bring that energy back with modern performance and accessibility underneath.