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Bestiary of hidden things.

Every easter egg, hotkey, and secret baked into this portfolio. Learn the sigils, try them across the themes, stumble onto the ones I forgot to list. Keep your keyboard nearby.

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Keyboard help

Translucent overlay listing every active shortcut on this page. First thing to try.

⌘K
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Command palette

Fuzzy search across every theme + quick-commands. Jump anywhere with a keystroke.

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Auto-Tour

Guided slideshow: advances through every theme every 5 seconds. Arrow keys step manually, Esc exits.

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Previous theme

Go one theme back from the registry order.

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Next theme

Advance to the next theme with a curtain view-transition.

↑↑↓↓←→←→BA
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Konami → /cosmic

Confetti rain, a badge on the gallery, and an extra hidden theme tile appears (/cosmic — reality glitch).

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Glitch mode

Full-screen ASCII-rain overlay with a hue-rotated backdrop-filter warping the page underneath. Esc to exit.

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Paint mode

Drag to draw strokes that persist per-route in localStorage. X cycles colour, W cycles width, C clears.

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Wave ripple

Pebble-in-pond: every tile pulses outward from the cursor position, delay proportional to distance.

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Roulette

Spin to a random theme with a slot-machine wheel.

R
any theme route

Surprise me

Press R on any theme page to teleport to a random other theme — excludes the one you're on.

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/retro

Snake (inside /retro)

Playable 8-bit snake. WASD/arrows, persistent high score.

⌥
/aurora (removed)

Aurora paint

Hold Option and drag on the aurora canvas to paint persistent glowing strokes.

I
any theme route

Theme DNA card

Opens a centred specimen card with the theme's era, palette swatches, typography, tagline, and route — tinted in the theme's accent. Esc or I again to close.

🎤
/datacloud

Audio-reactive datacloud

Click the mic button on /datacloud and the 6,000 points scale with the room's RMS level.

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Cross-tab ghost cursors

Open the portfolio in two tabs — each tab sees the other's cursor drift by as a glowing ghost dot. No backend; BroadcastChannel.