Easter Eggs 🥚

Obsession with Speed

Navigation links are prefetched instantly, while content pages are smartly loaded when you hover or scroll to them. Combined with server-side caching, clicking through feels snappy—pages load almost instantly after the first visit. It's a balance between speed and not overwhelming the server.

Digital Copresence

This garden is never truly empty. If you open this site in multiple tabs (or someone else is browsing at the same time), you'll see soft, warm glows appear on the page—areas where other people's cursors are. It's a subtle way to feel the presence of others sharing this digital space with you. Open two tabs and move your mouse around to see it in action.

The warmth you see isn't intrusive or distracting—it's just a gentle reminder that this space is alive and shared. Multiple people create zones of accumulated heat, like collective attention painting the page.

Tarat's AI

I use a custom embedding model + RAG to answer questions about all the content on this site. You can ask it about my projects, books, writings, etc.

Go chat with it here: Tarat's AI