Pixels, prompts, and a little weirdness
I did not want this site to look like another product landing page. It is a place for personal experiments: a retro game, a tiny display doing strange things, code that makes its own music. The page should feel like those projects belong together.
So the starting point was a terminal rather than a dashboard. Dark space. Bright cyan, yellow, green, and magenta. Hard borders. A cat beside a CRT. A skyline that looks like it could have arrived over a very slow connection.
The reference is a feeling, not a template
The visual direction takes inspiration from ANSI and ASCII art, especially the work collected at Sixteen Colors. The point is the economy of the medium: a limited palette and a grid of characters can still carry an unmistakable personality.
The desk, the robot, and the skyline come from the approved AI-generated concept for this site. divroom brings its own pixel-lettered project banner. demoscene brings an actual screenshot of its rainbow ASCII intro. The site does not reproduce artwork from the Sixteen Colors archive.
Pixels in the art. Real text everywhere else.
The finished page is not the mockup placed inside an image tag. Navigation, project descriptions, links, and articles are actual HTML. The main heading uses small SVG rectangles for the block lettering, with an accessible text equivalent.
The CRT scanline effect can be switched off. Layouts adapt to a phone. Project filters and article readers are small local interactions, and the terminal is a toy with a fixed set of commands, not a shell.
Made with AI does not mean powered by an AI API
AI helped make the site. It is not required to keep the site running. The delivered HTML contains the styles, scripts, illustrations, and content it needs. There is no chatbot hidden in the footer and no generation endpoint behind the project cards.
That distinction matters here. The projects are the things to explore. The website is the shelf they sit on. It can have a little personality without becoming another system to operate.
A few colors. A few characters. A lot of room to make something your own.
