Sitewright

Faulty terminal

A glitching terminal screen: scrolling log lines, tearing bands with RGB split, corrupted characters, scanlines and a blinking prompt; the pointer scrambles the lines under it.

What it is for

Behind an error page, a developer-tool hero or a system-status section (first child of a position:relative section; fills its parent).

Use it

1 · site.json
"effects": { "components": ["faulty-terminal"] }
or on the command line
node ~/.claude/skills/sitewright/scripts/scaffold.mjs --config site.json --out ./my-site --components faulty-terminal
2 · import it
import { FaultyTerminal } from '@/components/fx/ui';

Files

  • components/fx/ui/FaultyTerminal.tsx
  • components/fx/ui/_bg-b-kit.tsx
  • components/fx/ui/_t2.ts
  • ui-faulty-terminal.css styles

Source

Original to Sitewright. MIT licensed.

Credits and licences: third-party notices.

Accessibility

  • Keyboard. Components in the kit are written to be reached and used with the keyboard. Try it: press Tab inside the preview.
  • Reduced motion. With prefers-reduced-motion on, animation settles to its finished state at once.
  • Touch. Pointer-follow effects are skipped on touch screens; controls stay finger-sized.