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If you've had this site open in a background tab recently - and then switched back to it - you may have noticed the tab title wasn't quite what you left it.

That's intentional. The site changes what it says when it thinks you're not looking. Switch away, switch back. It has a few things it might say. None of them are alarming. A couple of them are a little nerdy.

I've been rebuilding this site from the ground up over the past several months. Somewhere along the way it stopped being just a website and started being a bit of a addiction. When you're writing all the code yourself or with Claude's help, and with no ticket queue and no product manager, it's hard not to have a little fun.

The tab title thing is the one you're most likely to find by accident. There are others. Some are easy to easy to find, others are not.  Some require knowing a very specific sequence of inputs that had its cultural peak sometime around 1986. One only shows up on a particular day each May, though I might have left a back door in case you don't want to wait.

A couple of them live on pages that aren't in the navigation and aren't linked from anywhere. They're just there, if you know where to point your browser. One of them is very aware that you weren't supposed to find it. The other one knows exactly what stardate it is.

I'm not going to spell them all out. That's the whole point. But if you're the kind of person who reads source code, checks robots.txt out of habit, or just types random paths into address bars to see what happens - you'll find them. The 404 page might have opinions and may or may not offer a nudge if you wander in the right direction.

Personal sites are one of the last places on the web where this kind of thing still makes sense. No security scans or page test is going to flag it.  It's just something that's there for the people who look.

May the syntax be with you.