Easter eggs

1 · The site is colourless — until you reveal the hidden hue

The whole site is deliberately monochrome. But a colour is hidden in it, derived from my nickname. “Pappol” can't be a literal hex code — P, o and l aren't hex digits — so it's computed from the name's character codes instead:

By default hue 260 is never painted — the site stays black and white. Type pappol anywhere (egg 3) and the .pappol class floods every accent, link and highlight with it. The hue lives in one --pappol-hue variable in the CSS.

2 · The animation timing comes from “Pappol” too

The same sum drives motion. 620 → 0.620 gives the easing curve cubic-bezier(0.62, 0, 0.38, 1) (with 0.38 = 1 − 0.62), and the base transition duration is 260ms — the hue value, reused as milliseconds. Hover any card or button to feel it.

3 · Type pappol anywhere

Type the six letters p-a-p-p-o-l on any page (not in a text field) to trigger Pappol mode: confetti, a one-off hue-sweep, and the hidden colour (260°) flooding the whole monochrome site. It stays until you reload.

4 · A message in the developer console

Open your browser's DevTools console on any page and there's a styled greeting waiting — with a nudge toward this very page.

5 · The hidden door

This page isn't in the menu. There are two ways in: typing pappol (egg 3) shows a link, and the little full-stop after my name in the footer — © … Riccardo Parola. — is secretly a link here.