pugglenaut
Run boot sequenceTime-aware skyBubble trailScreensaverCursor companionMission control (`)
✦ Welcome to pugglenaut.com — now boarding for low orbit ✦ built with Astro & the Retropolis design system ✦ mind the cosmic dust ✦

Pugglenaut

A baby platypus, in space. This is home base — a whimsical corner of the personal web.

new!v1.0astro + retropolis

boop me!

navigation.chart
Pick a star to set course.
launch-bay.exe

Static HTML until it needs to be otherwise: the moving parts here — this launch bay, the telemetry, the radio, the boopable puggle — are React islands that hydrate only once you scroll them into view. Your launches are remembered in this browser.

000041
pugglenauts launched
live
Systems nominal.
life-support.sys
Oxygen
96%
Snack reserves
88%
Cosmic vibes
82%
All readings green.
cosmic-radio.fm
Cosmic Radio
PausedOrbit FMSteady little arpeggios drifting in low orbit.
Volume
Synthesized live — no audio files, no loop.
the neighborhood
Logbook

Dispatches from orbit — dev notes, doodles, and the occasional warble into the void.

Open the logbook →
Arcade

Two tiny games: dodge asteroids in Puggle Drift, or grow a comet in Comet Snake. High-score chasing, one puggle.

Enter the arcade →
Waddle Lab

Drive the pugglenaut on a real robot's reinforcement-learning gait — walk, turn, kick and sit, replayed on Microduck's exact skeleton. Physics in the browser, and AR if your phone's up for it.

Open the Waddle Lab →
Oracle

Ask the cosmos a yes/no question and let a very small platypus divine your fate.

Consult the cosmos →
Etch-a-Comet

A pixel paint pad. Doodle a comet, then beam a PNG down to your machine.

Open the doodle pad →
Guestbook

Sign the wall. Leave a mark before you drift onward.

Sign the guestbook →
Star Charts

Some favorite links across the small web. Bring your own telescope.

View the charts →
Signal

Beam a message across the void, or say hi the old-fashioned way at hello@pugglenaut.com.

Open a channel →
040096
pugglenauts aboard

Poke around: flip the theme lab up top, tint the sky to your local hour, or press ` to open mission control. The windows on this site are real windows too — minimize, maximize and close them from their title bars. There may be a cheat code or two hiding in here. 🛰️