--- title: Behind the Terminal | daily.dev description: A portfolio website was designed with a terminal-inspired interface. The article explains the motivation behind choosing a terminal aesthetic and the technical... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/behind-the-terminal-hqperycle twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Behind the Terminal | daily.dev og:description: A portfolio website was designed with a terminal-inspired interface. The article explains the motivation behind choosing a terminal aesthetic and the technical... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/behind-the-terminal-hqperycle og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hqperYcLe.png og:image:alt: Behind the Terminal og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Behind the Terminal **[FREEK.DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/freek)** · 1 min read · 71 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A portfolio website was designed with a terminal-inspired interface. The article explains the motivation behind choosing a terminal aesthetic and the technical implementation details of creating this retro command-line look and feel for a web-based portfolio. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@muaazjoosuf** · 1 upvotes > That's actually really impressive ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Terminal Is an Art](https://daily.dev/posts/the-terminal-is-an-art-co7reysrn) · Dev Genius · 112 upvotes · 17 comments - [Terminal](https://daily.dev/posts/terminal-gnkxk8mta) · Sam McLeod · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals\!](https://daily.dev/posts/ars-asks-share-your-shell-and-show-us-your-tricked-out-terminals--4dnzkuy3f) · Ars Technica · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ui-design](https://daily.dev/tags/ui-design) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/behind-the-terminal-hqperycle) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Behind the Terminal","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/behind-the-terminal-hqperycle","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/behind-the-terminal-hqperycle"},"datePublished":"2026-01-15T14:00:35.248Z","dateModified":"2026-01-15T14:00:52.892Z","description":"A portfolio website was designed with a terminal-inspired interface. 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