TicToc

An Apple-inspired page that turns the passing of time into something to watch. The README asks whether you can feel the dreadful ticking of it: a clock counts upward second by second while a progress ring sweeps six degrees a tick — a full turn each minute — and the numerals counter-rotate against it. It lives at tictoc.amittai.studio.

The quotes are the real point. Every ten seconds a shuffled deck of lines fades one out and the next in, mostly from Foundation, my favorite show — Salvor Hardin, Gaal Dornick, Brother Day, Demerzel — with a few from elsewhere. When the deck runs out it reshuffles, so the order never repeats. Clicking anywhere pauses both the clock and the rotation and puts up a Paused card until you click again.

It all runs on one small script. A soft blob trails the cursor, easing toward each new pointer position over three seconds so it always lags a little behind. There is no build framework — a single Counter class in TypeScript, jQuery for the DOM and the quote fetch, Sass for style, and Vite to bundle it. The page is static, so it loads instantly.