A profile that opens on intent rather than on arrival — and the line under the name is the intent being measured.
The prompt14,287 characters
Add the "Hover Card" component from notboring to my project.
It is licensed for use in my projects — notboring.dev/license. Please:
1. Create the component at a sensible path for this
project, named HoverCard, from the source below.
2. Install what it needs: npm i framer-motion
3. Add the CSS to the project's stylesheet.
4. THE PART THAT NEEDS YOUR JUDGMENT. The CSS reads
these custom properties and does not define them:
--card
--font-ui
--ground
--ink
--ink-2
--ink-3
--ink-4
--ink-rgb
--on-ink
They are notboring's design tokens. Map each one to
whatever this project already uses for the same
job — its own ink, ground, surface and UI font —
rather than defining them as new globals. If the
project has no equivalent, define it locally on
the component's own root so nothing leaks out.
Anything ending -rgb wants three bare numbers,
because the CSS builds rgba() from it.
5. IF YOU CHANGE IT, GO ALL THE WAY. This block is
built for every state its object can really be
in — empty, one, full, refused, undone, pressed
twice, interrupted halfway — and not only the one
the demo opens on. Adapt it and the same standard
holds: work out that list before you write, and
build the whole of it. Never settle for the
minimum that makes the screenshot right. A
component somebody has to come back and finish is
the thing this was written to replace.
6. AVATARS is a stub
— notboring's own pictures are not licensed to
travel. Point it at this project's images, or
leave the placeholder and tell me.
Keep the comments. They say why the numbers are what
they are, and they are most of what makes this worth
copying rather than rewriting.
--- HoverCard.tsx ---
import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
import { AnimatePresence, motion } from "framer-motion";
/* ══ Hover Card ═══════════════════════════════════════════
The card behind a name, which opens on intent rather than
on arrival.
A POINTER CROSSING A WORD IS NOT A REQUEST. Every hover
card that opens the moment the cursor touches its trigger
fires on the way past — you move toward a button, clip a
name, and a panel throws itself over what you were reading.
The fix is a dwell: nothing happens for 380ms, and if the
pointer is still there at the end of it, that was a
question. 380 is the number where a deliberate stop reads
as instant and a pass-through never fires; below 250 the
accidents come back, above 500 it feels broken.
AND THE DWELL IS DRAWN. The line under the name fills for
exactly those 380ms, so the wait is not dead time — it is
the interface showing you that it is listening, and the one
moving thing on the block is the measurement itself. It
then STAYS up for as long as the card is out: the line is
the mark on the word you are reading about, and a mark that
completes itself and then vanishes reads as a thing that
The rest — the source and its comments — is what the plan opens.