The real, live fixed top nav — logo + Home/About/Works scroll-spy links + external "Archive" link. (A differently-named, unrelated Navigation.astro used to exist as an orphaned/unused component — it's since been removed.)

Imports

{ Image } from astro:assets, happyLogo asset.

Scroll-spy logic

function updateHomeActiveState() {
    homeLink?.classList.remove("active-scroll");
    aboutLink?.classList.remove("active-scroll");
    worksLink?.classList.remove("active-scroll");

    if (isReadMoreExpanded) { aboutLink?.classList.add("active-scroll"); return; }

    const worksTop = worksSection ? worksSection.offsetTop - 120 : 99999;
    if (window.scrollY < worksTop) { homeLink?.classList.add("active-scroll"); return; }
    worksLink?.classList.add("active-scroll");
}

Only two real scroll-position thresholds exist (Home vs. Works); the "About" highlight is driven entirely by a MutationObserver watching an external #read-more-btn element's class attribute (from the homepage's bio section) — a cross-component coupling not obvious from reading this file alone.

Gotchas

Fixed height: 52.5px, explained only by a code comment as "1.5× the 35px filter bar height" — coupled to another component's size via comment, not a shared variable. Logo requested at 96×96 but displayed at 36×36 (deliberate retina sharpness). Re-registers its scroll listener on every astro:page-load without removing the prior one.

892 lines. A dual-mode top bar (despite the "Sidebar" name — it renders as a horizontal breadcrumb, not a vertical sidebar). On the homepage (isHome) it's a compact inline-link pill with no dropdown. On project pages, it's a breadcrumb trigger (Works > {title}) that opens a file-tree-style dropdown: Home, About, an expandable "Works" folder listing 6 curated projects, and Archive.

Props

interface Props { title?: string; isHome?: boolean; }
const { title, isHome = false } = Astro.props;

Imports

{ getCollection }, { Image }, happyLogo.

const featuredSlugs = ["detour", "working-living-innovating", "skywalk-sanctuary", "dot-threads", "piko", "prompt-nodes"];
const sortedProjects = allProjects
    .filter((project) => featuredSlugs.includes(project.slug))
    .sort((a, b) => (a.data.order || 0) - (b.data.order || 0));

Yet another independent curated slug list — 6 slugs, different from both the homepage's 7 and elsewhere's 3, sorted by the order field (the one place in the codebase where order genuinely does drive visible sequence).

Accordion & toggle logic

The "Works" folder toggle written generically to support nested subfolders (single-open-at-a-time sibling-collapsing logic) even though the current markup only ever has one top-level folder — extensibility scaffolding, not dead per se. Dropdown toggle is explicitly disabled below 1024px (if (window.innerWidth <= 1024) return;), matching a CSS breakpoint that hides the dropdown chevron entirely — the Works tree is desktop-only; mobile users can only reach /#works via the plain crumb link.

Correctly re-initializes via document.addEventListener("astro:page-load", setupSidebarNavigation).

The canonical theme-switching button. Fully documented under Theme System in the Architecture tab, including the full is:inline script. Notably, the button itself is styled with inverse colors relative to the page (a light-toned button appears in dark mode and vice versa) so it always contrasts against surrounding chrome — non-obvious from a glance at the markup.

Fully documented under Custom Cursor System in the Architecture tab.

615 lines. Fully static (no props) site footer: a large CTA line, copy-to-clipboard email/phone buttons, three social links, and a build-time-computed copyright year. Its signature feature is a mouse-tracked "ripple" hover effect.

The ripple, exactly

@property --ripple-radius {
    syntax: '<length-percentage>';
    inherits: false;
    initial-value: 0px;
}
.site-footer {
    background-image: radial-gradient(
        circle var(--ripple-radius) at var(--mouse-x, 50%) var(--mouse-y, 50%),
        var(--accent-secondary, #42BD49) 0%, var(--accent-secondary, #42BD49) 100%, transparent 100%
    ) !important;
    transition: --ripple-radius 1.1s ease-in-out;
}
.site-footer.is-hovered { --ripple-radius: 120vw; }

Registering --ripple-radius via @property is what makes it browser-interpolable — a plain custom property would snap instantly rather than animate. JS tracks mousemove globally (even outside the footer) so the very first mouseenter position is accurate, adds a deliberate 150ms delay before applying .is-hovered (staggers the ripple's visual start), and keeps --mouse-x/--mouse-y pinned during scroll while hovered.

Gotchas

All contact info and social URLs are hardcoded string literals directly in the markup — no shared config. A .tagline CSS rule exists with no matching element in the template (orphaned CSS). Copyright year is computed at build time (new Date().getFullYear()), so a Jan 1 rebuild is required for it to roll over. Correctly re-initializes via astro:page-load.

590 lines. The primary homepage tile — a metadata panel (title, tags, description, up to 6 meta rows) beside an image panel with a hover-revealed "View project" CTA overlay. The entire card is a single <a>.

Props

interface Props {
    title: string; image?: string | ImageMetadata; href?: string;
    tags?: string[]; loading?: "lazy" | "eager"; fetchPriority?: "auto" | "high" | "low";
    fit?: "contain" | "cover"; scale?: number; categories?: string[];
    meta?: Record<string, string>; description?: string;
}
// href="#", tags=[], loading="lazy", fetchPriority="auto", fit="cover", scale=1, categories=[], meta={}

Object.entries(meta).slice(0, 6) silently truncates any project with more than 6 meta fields. GIFs (detected by .endsWith(".gif") or ImageMetadata.format) bypass astro:assets's <Image> entirely and render as a plain <img>, since animated GIFs can't be build-optimized; static images always render at a normalized 900px width via <Image width={900} height={Math.round(900/aspect)}>.

No client script at all — every interaction (image zoom, overlay reveal, gradient hover) is pure CSS :hover.

Category hover gradients

Five data-categories~="X" selectors drive per-category hover gradients using hardcoded literal colors.

417 lines. The 4-button segmented filter control (All / Hardware UX / Web UX / Mobile UX). Not parameterized by props — fully static markup.

Its animated per-button gradient fill uses a staggered @property-registered 4-stop custom-property trick:

btn.style.setProperty("--c1", c);
setTimeout(() => btn.style.setProperty("--c2", c), 60);
setTimeout(() => btn.style.setProperty("--c3", c), 120);
setTimeout(() => btn.style.setProperty("--c4", c), 180);

Correctly de-dupes its hashchange listener via a window._worksFilterHashListener singleton guard — explicitly removed and re-added on every astro:page-load.

389 lines. The "Next Project" banner at the bottom of homepage-featured case studies. Purely presentational — contains no ordering/rotation logic itself (that lives entirely in works/[...slug].astro's getStaticPaths()).

Category normalization (differs from HomeProjectCard's)

const categoryMap: Record<string, string> = {
    "web-ux": "web-ux", thinking: "web-ux",
    "hardware-ux": "hardware-ux", embodied: "hardware-ux",
    "mobile-ux": "mobile-ux",
    spatial: "spatial-xd", "spatial-xd": "spatial-xd",
    archive: "experiments",
};
const cleanCat = category.toLowerCase().replace(/\[.*\]/, "").trim();
const dataCategory = categoryMap[cleanCat] || "web-ux"; // silent fallback

An unmapped/typo'd category silently defaults to "web-ux" rather than erroring.

Gotchas

heroImage always renders via a plain <img> (no astro:assets optimization, unlike HomeProjectCard's dual-path handling). Resolved the previously-dead meta/ctaUrl props and the always-false isExternal constant (with its permanently-dead target/rel branches) were removed from this component, ProjectLayout.astro's nextProject prop, and works/[...slug].astro's nextProject construction.

429 lines. The core structural wrapper for every named section inside MDX case-study content — title + divider + slotted body. Contains zero client-side JavaScript; purely structural/CSS.

Props

interface Props {
    title: string; id?: string; placeholder?: boolean;
    hideTitle?: boolean; wide?: boolean; hideDivider?: boolean;
}

hideTitle enables a "continuation" mode for splitting one long section across multiple ProjectSection calls without a repeated heading; it also auto-suppresses the divider even if hideDivider wasn't explicitly set.

The load-bearing full-bleed contract

Body text is constrained to a ~750px reading column via padding-inline: max(0rem, calc(50% - 375px)) on every direct slot child — but an explicit opt-out list removes that constraint for known full-width component root classes:

.section-content > :global(.full-width-image),
.section-content > :global(.figma-container),
.section-content > :global(.image-slider),
.section-content > :global(.image-toggle-component),
.section-content > :global(.video-switcher),
.section-content > :global(.video-embed),
.section-content > :global(.pdf-viewer-wrapper),
.section-content > :global(.prompt-nodes-container),
.section-content > :global(.xf-grid),
.section-content > :global(.left-align) { padding-inline: 0 !important; max-width: 100%; }

The --title-width/--column-gap custom properties are declared on .project-section but never consumed — vestigial from an earlier two-column grid layout since replaced by a stacked flex layout (CSS comments still reference "grid" terminology).

A minimal fixed-height gray box with an optional italic caption, shown whenever no real src is available.

156 lines. The primary "big image" component for case studies, with extensive sizing/layout controls.

Props

interface Props {
    src?: string; alt?: string; caption?: string; height?: string;
    loading?: "eager" | "lazy"; fetchPriority?: "high" | "low" | "auto";
    sizes?: string; constrain?: boolean; marginTop?: string; scale?: number;
    objectFit?: "contain" | "cover"; background?: string; padding?: string;
    overflow?: "hidden" | "visible"; lockHeight?: boolean; borderRadius?: string;
}

const resolvedFetchPriority =
    loading === "eager" && fetchPriority === "auto" ? "high" : fetchPriority;

Auto-upgrades fetch priority when eager-loaded and unset — a sensible LCP default. GIFs detected by filename suffix bypass <Image> for a plain <img>. .constrained caps width at min(750px, 100%), centered — the standard "readable column" width reused across the whole content system.

676 lines. Despite its name suggesting a before/after comparison widget, this is actually a general-purpose infinite-looping N-slide carousel with two visual variants (standard full-bleed, carousel cover-flow with peeking neighbors) — there is no clip-path drag-reveal comparison logic anywhere in the file.

Props

interface Slide { src: string; alt: string; label: string; }
interface Props {
    slides: Slide[]; constrain?: boolean; autoplay?: boolean; interval?: number;
    showControls?: boolean; transitionType?: "slide" | "instant";
    indicatorType?: "segmented" | "dots"; variant?: "standard" | "carousel"; initialIndex?: number;
}

Infinite loop via triple cloning

The slide set is cloned twice (once prepended, once appended) to form [clones][originals][clones]; on transitionend, if the active index has drifted onto a clone set, the track silently re-snaps (no animation) to the equivalent position in the middle "real" set — the classic seamless-loop illusion. A .clone DOM-presence check makes re-running initSlider() (on astro:page-load) idempotent.

Two independent drag systems

Both use native Pointer Events with setPointerCapture: one on the segmented-control buttons (hover-following drag that finds which button the pointer X-coordinate currently falls within), and one directly on the image display (1:1 real-time translateX tracking with rubber-band clamping past the strip edges, a 15%-of-width threshold to commit to advancing vs. snapping back).

No keyboard arrow-key navigation exists anywhere — only native button focus/Enter/Space works.

199 lines. A genuine before/after tap-to-toggle comparison — two images stacked in the same grid cell, instant-swapped (no crossfade) via a .toggled class. role="button" tabindex="0" plus Enter/Space keydown support for accessibility.

wrappers.forEach((wrapper) => {
    const handleToggle = (e) => { /* ... */ };
    wrapper.removeEventListener("click", handleToggle);  // no-op: handleToggle is a fresh closure every call
    wrapper.addEventListener("click", handleToggle);
});

485 lines. Multiple <video> elements stacked in one container (all preloaded up front, preload="auto", none lazy), switched via the same segmented-control visual pattern as ImageSlider, plus a global mute/unmute toggle applied to all videos simultaneously.

Switching away from a video pauses it and resets currentTime = 0 — playback position is not preserved when tabbing back. Uses separate mouse/touch listeners (not Pointer Events, unlike ImageSlider) attached to document rather than the control itself, with no idempotency guard — repeated astro:page-load firings would accumulate duplicate document-level listeners if the DOM persists across a transition.

93 lines. Embeds Vimeo or YouTube. Uniquely among the embed components, this one does real work at build time: for Vimeo, it calls the public oEmbed API to fetch the real aspect ratio.

const match = id.match(/\d+/);
const videoId = match ? match[0] : id;
try {
    const res = await fetch(`https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=https://vimeo.com/${videoId}`);
    if (res.ok) { const data = await res.json(); if (data.width && data.height) { videoWidth = data.width; videoHeight = data.height; } }
} catch (e) { /* silent fallback to 16:9 */ }

YouTube gets no such treatment — always assumes a flat 16:9, so a portrait/Shorts video would embed with the wrong aspect ratio. The fetch failure is completely silent (empty catch, no logging) — a broken video ID would fail quietly rather than surfacing a build warning.

141 lines. Iframe embed of a Figma prototype with a dismissible "click to interact" hint icon overlaid (shared default icon path /assets/logos/click.png with ImageToggle). Builds the embed URL by appending hide-ui=1/footer=0 query params via plain .includes() string checks (not real URL parsing). The click-hint can only ever be dismissed by clicking the icon itself — cross-domain iframe interaction can't be detected, an explicitly-acknowledged limitation in a code comment.

495 lines. A canvas-based PDF viewer/carousel using Mozilla's pdf.js, lazily loaded from a CDN (pinned to 3.11.174) rather than bundled as an npm dependency.

Rendering strategy

Renders the current page first, then eagerly pre-renders every other page of the PDF in the background up front — trading higher initial CPU/memory cost for instant subsequent page flips (page switching afterward is pure CSS display toggling, not a re-render).

Autoplay

An IntersectionObserver (threshold: 0.4) starts a 1500ms-per-page auto-advance slideshow once ≥40% visible, pausing on hover and only resuming if still visible per the observer's last known state.

71 lines. Embeds a separately-built sub-project (the entire prompt-nodes-src/ tree, vendored into this repo purely to be built and dropped at public/prompt-nodes/) via a sandboxed iframe pointing at a fixed, non-prop-driven path: src="/prompt-nodes/index.html?embed=true".

Props

interface Props { height?: string; aspectRatio?: string; }
// height = "750px", aspectRatio = "16/9"

sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" — acceptable since it's first-party content the site owner built, but worth flagging that this combination can in principle let framed content lift its own sandbox restrictions. Real usage in prompt-nodes.mdx passes zero props, so both defaults are what's actually live.

ReviewContainer (16 lines) is a trivial flex-column slot wrapper — its declared interface Props {} is empty/unused boilerplate. ReviewBubble (75 lines) renders a quote with large decorative " marks.

985 lines. Fully documented under Dev Typography Tooling in the Architecture tab. Activated by holding Ctrl/Cmd and clicking any text element; builds a CSS selector path via getSelector() (short-circuits on the nearest ancestor id, or stops the walk at major layout containers like .project-section/.hero/.universal-layout); live-applies changes by rewriting one big injected <style id="typo-inspector-dynamic-rules"> block (all rules !important) rather than mutating CSS custom properties.

"Save to Code" always POSTs the entire accumulated override map (every selector edited since page load), not just the currently-open element — a stale in-memory map could silently overwrite previously-saved selectors on disk. "Reset" only clears the client-side style tag + localStorage; it never touches the persisted server file.

1,069 lines — a full canvas-based hold-to-fly endless-runner easter egg, styled as a 255px-tall bento tile. Runs continuously even when idle (a passive "Rest Mode" walk-cycle animation plays at all times; only the game-logic update() — terrain scroll, spawning, collisions — is gated behind isPlaying).

Input

Triggered by mousedown/touchstart on the canvas or the Space key anywhere on the window; releasing any of the three ends the "hold." Lane switching is a simple exponential-decay lerp (player.y += (target - player.y) * 0.15), not physics/gravity-based.

Scoring — "continuous consumption"

Rather than binary collect-on-touch, a good bar's score accrues per-pixel as the ghost's body horizontally overlaps it (tracked via a monotonically-increasing bar.eatenWidth), visualized as a shrinking colored fill — closer to a Pac-Man-style consumption bar than a simple hit test.

Entire canvas is mirrored (ctx.scale(-1,1)) before drawing everything except the HUD, so the ghost visually travels opposite its internal +x coordinate math. No astro:page-load hook and no teardown of the animation-frame loop exist anywhere in the file.