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  • TardisCleaning SNCF train-delay data, training a model to predict delays, and a Streamlit dashboard. The model barely beat guessing, and the page says so.Projects
  • InterStonarThrow a rock into a simulated universe: planets that attract each other and merge, or shapes it hits, found by stepping with signed distances.Projects
  • SensAIA small chat program for a local AI model that talks to it with plain HTTP, and can force its answers into a JSON shape you define.Projects
  • This portfolioThe site you are on: one set of data, six themes. Each theme is a different way to explore the same work, from a familiar page to a game.Projects
  • Portfolio toysSmall interactive toys from this portfolio: Fourier epicycles, a themed crossword and a bot that walks where you click.Projects
  • snake_pyA contribution to Infamous97440's repository: 2 commits from me.Projects
  • MyTopA clone of the Linux top command in C and ncurses: live CPU, memory, swap and per-process usage read from /proc.Projects
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The portfolio, inside the portfolio.

This portfolio

Lucien Rivière

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About this project

Sep 2026 – now · Author · solo

The site you are on: one set of data, six themes. Each theme is a different way to explore the same work, from a familiar page to a game.

Most portfolios are one layout filled with different content. This one is the opposite: the content is fixed, and the way you move through it changes. Pick a theme on the welcome page, or switch with the buttons on the right edge without losing the page you are on.

How it works

Projects, collaborators and the profile come from one source: my GitHub activity and LinkedIn profile, fetched when the site is built, plus a few hand-written files. Every theme reads the same data and gives it a purpose:

  • Corporate: the familiar page, fast and predictable.
  • Space: relationships between projects, people and skills.
  • Reel: a story told by scrolling, like a film.
  • Cocktail: say what you feel like, and it recommends.
  • Grove: growth over time.
  • Voxel: a block world to explore, still a work in progress.

Every visual view has a plain twin (a list of the same things) for screen readers, small screens or browsers without scripts, and switching theme morphs the shared elements from one layout into the other.

Things to poke at

The helper that walks where you click, the crossword and the Fourier drawing live on their own page, Portfolio toys. A few secrets are hidden around the site, and the achievements you find are listed at the bottom of the home page.

What I took from it

  • Treating the layout as the variable and the data as the constant made every theme cheaper than the one before.
  • A decorative experience is only acceptable if the plain version is first-class.