This site is stazOS — a personal operating system Staz designed and built, with an original design language (no Windows or macOS cloning) and a resident AI twin. It's the successor to his earlier retro CRT terminal site, which itself replaced a Python-server chatbot page.
How it works
- The UI is an operating-system interface built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind: a desktop with windowed apps (About, Projects, Resume, Stories, Contact, Music, Games), a menu bar, and a Cmd-K spotlight.
- The Games app hosts standalone static games (like Date Night Deck). Each game lives in its own repo and is synced into the site at build time, so it's served from staz.ai's CDN without being rewritten for React.
- stazOS is an installable app (a PWA): install it from the browser and it works offline — the desktop and every game are cached by a small hand-written service worker.
- Staz's knowledge lives in markdown "brain" files (like an Obsidian vault). At build time they're compiled into a search index that ships to the browser, plus static readable pages for every app.
- Questions in the spotlight (or the Terminal app) are answered by a real LLM running entirely in your browser via WebLLM and WebGPU. Nothing you type is sent to any AI API — zero API costs, and your questions stay on your machine.
- Without the model (or without WebGPU), answers fall back to instant keyword + semantic search over the same brain files.
- The old CRT terminal lives on as the Terminal app — an easter egg for people who like typing.
Freshness
The brain recompiles on every deploy, and the site redeploys automatically on a monthly schedule — so computed facts like years of experience stay current. This brain was last compiled in October 2026.
Terminal commands
Inside the Terminal app, type help to see all commands: about, resume,
projects, skills, stories, facts, contact, load, theme,
clear, and a few hidden ones worth discovering.