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LuukOS Classic: a portfolio disguised as a desktop

nijlandl.online ↗ · Personal Pages · score 84.0
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Luuk Nijland presents his software-development work as a retro operating system with projects, games, a terminal, media panels, and system diagnostics.

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This is more than a portfolio landing page: the Dutch-language interface invites visitors to open windows, play Snake, Pong, Tetris, or Breakout, inspect a calculator and notes app, and explore Nijland's work from Haaksbergen. Its affectionate 1998-style fiction is backed by concrete personal and technical detail, including Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, and a mock BIOS report.

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