elberacasa

How it's built

Everything about me here is late. Everything about you is live.

The eye is open when I've pushed public code in the last three hours, and shut every night from 11 pm to 10 am my time, whatever I'm doing. Touch the closed eye to leave a light. I see how many came, never who.

Measured on your device, right now

The whole page. Smaller than one photo.: –
Files loaded. No images, fonts or trackers.: –
Frames drawn in the last 10 seconds. Falls to zero when nothing moves.: –
Your screen's refresh rate. Every motion matches it.: –

The spec it's built to

One file: The script and the style are inside the page. Nothing else is downloaded: no framework, no fonts, no images, no trackers.
Drawn by code: Every line and letter is computed, snapped to your screen's pixels and mirrored exactly about both axes.
Still at rest: When nothing moves it runs nothing: no frames, no timers, not even here.
Springs, not timelines: Every movement is physics that carries the speed of your finger, and can be caught mid-flight.
One camera: You didn't change pages. You zoomed through four worlds, each drawn at the scale it had inside the last.
Honest data: The eye reads my public GitHub each quarter hour, half an hour late on purpose; the year is GitHub's own calendar.
Locked down: Its only script is pinned by hash in the page's security policy, and it can talk to nothing but this site.

Sound

Starts at your first touch or key. This browser remembers if you turn it off.

Built by elberacasa, with over a thousand automated tests. Try curl https://elberacasa.com.

Inside the eye: my last year, day by day

Drag the ring, or use the arrow keys, Page Up and Page Down, to turn it. The day at the top is read out. Enter goes deeper.

Turn the ring. Tap its centre to go deeper.

What my year grows into

Touch it. Tap its centre to go deeper.

What it dreams

Five ways the eye dreams. They move only while you touch them.

Tap for the next. Tap its name to go deeper.