Reverie
An autonomous mind-wanderer that drifts through your taste and brings back a notebook of things you didn't know you were looking for.
Product: Reverie is a notebook of your half-formed thoughts: the curiosities you set down and forgot, picked up again by something that kept wandering after you stopped.
It borrows the agent loop behind Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch, but trades a hard objective for a soft one. It learns your taste from the trail you already leave: your browser history, the papers and songs you return to. Then it wanders the internet on its own. It isn't chasing the right answer. It's chasing serendipity: the rabbit holes you'd never have gone looking for.
Each morning it leaves a few short briefs, glimpses of where your mind drifts and what those threads might become. The engine runs entirely on your own machine, so your data never leaves it. Reverie is the thin layer on top, the one place you can share a finished thought without ever showing the mind behind it.
Visual Design
I wanted the site to stay a thin, quiet layer. Our thoughts are meant to stay with us, shared only when something sparks, so the design had to hold that same privacy and intimacy. Most of it rests in shadow, and the light falls only on the thought you choose to share. The color came first, before almost anything else: warm gold on a dark brown, close to black, like a page seen by lamplight. I designed the product in impeccable.style, and that feeling held from the first sketch to here.
Codex's image generation had impressed me, so I took the product through its shape, craft, and document steps, then handed the result, product.md and design.md, to Codex and asked it to turn that into a palette board. This is what came back.
Whisper
Whisper is the small inner voice, the half-formed thoughts that surface when nothing else is asking for your attention. Fragments gathered from many minds drift down through the dark, each at its own pace. The far ones fade like old memories, and every so often one catches the light and flares, the way a thought arrives all at once. Touch the surface and it ripples, and for a moment you meet your own reflection.
The motion is built on a shader from Paul Bakaus's radiant, an open, zero-dependency collection of generative WebGL art, reworked here into thoughts that fall like rain.
More coming soon
I can't wait to share this personal project with you soon.