From a23c8ee0e57901dbba82c476660a2b1912ce464f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: senior Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 08:07:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Redesign homepage into personal showcase with project stories Replace technical card descriptions with first-person project stories (maintainer's voice, verbatim) and add italic section intros (ledes). Soften the layout: larger readable story text, generous whitespace, de-emphasized muted tech tags, subtle GitHub links under each story. Keep dark mode + mobile friendly; Dockerfile and footer unchanged. --- index.html | 40 +++++++++++++++---------------- styles.css | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 99294f3..1012519 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -21,14 +21,14 @@

CipherDolls — AI companion platform

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An AI companion platform spanning cloud, web, and physical IoT devices.

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What if an AI companion wasn't just an app, but something physical in your room? CipherDolls is my biggest project: an AI companion platform where characters can talk, listen — and live inside real devices.

github.com/cipherdolls ↗

core

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Backend API for the CipherDolls platform: wallet-signature auth, AI chat completions, TTS/STT, embeddings (pgvector), USDC payments on Base, and IoT device management over MQTT.

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The brain of the platform: one backend that handles chat, voice, memory, payments and the connection to the physical dolls.

  • Bun
  • Elysia
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • MQTT
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@

server

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Minimal chat backend derived from core, stripped to the essentials: chat with a Character, optional TTS/STT — same architecture, no payments or IoT.

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A slimmed-down core for anyone who just wants to chat with a character — the same architecture, none of the complexity.

  • Bun
  • Elysia
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@

webapp

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Web frontend for the platform.

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The web face of CipherDolls — where you meet the characters.

  • React Router
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@

stream-player

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TTS audio streaming proxy — subscribes to Redis Pub/Sub and forwards audio chunks to WebSocket clients with a compact binary protocol.

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Voices need to arrive instantly. This streams the AI's speech to your browser the moment it is generated.

  • TypeScript
  • Redis
  • WebSocket
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@

stream-recorder

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WebSocket audio ingestion microservice — accepts raw WAV streams, converts to MP3 in-memory via ffmpeg, forwards to the backend.

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The listening half: your voice streams in, gets converted on the fly, and lands with the AI.

  • TypeScript
  • WebSocket
  • ffmpeg
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@

firmware-watcher

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ESP-IDF firmware for the SenseCAP Watcher companion device: BLE WiFi provisioning, MQTT events, MP3 playback through the onboard codec, LVGL UI on a 412×412 display, deep sleep.

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The magic moment: a real device on your desk wakes up, connects, and speaks with the character's voice.

  • C
  • ESP-IDF
  • ESP32-S3
  • LVGL
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@

firmware-m5sticks3

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ESP-IDF firmware for the M5StickS3 (ESP32-S3) pocket companion device with display, audio codec, and IMU.

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The pocket version: the same companion on a tiny stick with a display and a microphone.

  • C
  • ESP-IDF
  • ESP32-S3
@@ -96,13 +96,13 @@

Decentralized apps — Gnosis Chain + Ethereum Swarm

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dApps with on-chain logic and censorship-resistant Swarm storage/hosting.

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Can the web run without servers? These apps are my experiments in building things that nobody can switch off.

SwarmChat

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Decentralized 1:1 messenger and WebRTC video calling: wallet identity, on-chain contact registry, encrypted messages over Swarm PSS with feeds as offline outbox. Live at swarmchat.eth.

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I was thinking about how cool it would be to have a web3-based chat system. Is it possible to communicate without any servers? With Swarm, a decentralised technology, this is now possible — messages travel encrypted through the network itself, and your wallet is your identity.

  • Solidity
  • React
  • Swarm PSS
  • WebRTC
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@

Pink Chainsaw

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Decentralized imageboard: post images, comment, and vote with xBZZ; fees auto-top-up the poster's Swarm postage stamp so good content stays alive. A social-score system prices posting by reputation.

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I wanted an imageboard where content can't just disappear. Images live on Swarm, and every post pays a little to keep them alive — good content earns you cheaper posting, bad content gets expensive.

  • Solidity
  • Foundry
  • React
  • Swarm
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@

FreeeMarket

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Multi-vendor marketplace where anyone runs their own shop and gets paid in stablecoins through on-chain escrow — deliberately fee-free and VAT-free.

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Can you run a marketplace with no company behind it? Anyone opens a shop, buyers pay in stablecoins, and on-chain escrow replaces the middleman. Deliberately fee-free — a farmers' market for the internet.

  • Solidity
  • Gnosis Chain
  • Swarm
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@

WalletMatrix

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Pivot-table view of a crypto wallet across every EVM chain — tokens as rows, chains as columns; drag one cell onto another to bridge or cross-chain swap. Static SPA deployable to Swarm.

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My tokens were scattered across a dozen chains and I could never see the whole picture. So I built a pivot table for your wallet: tokens as rows, chains as columns — drag a cell from one chain to another to bridge.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@

swarm-connect

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React connect-button + wizard for Swarm on Gnosis: wallet → network → balances → Bee node → postage stamp, in one modal. Published on npm; demo hosted on Swarm itself.

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Every Swarm dApp I built needed the same onboarding dance: wallet, network, Bee node, postage stamp. So I packaged it once — a single React button that walks users through all of it.

  • React
  • wagmi
  • npm package
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@

opentab

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Onchain app bootstrapped with create-onchain (Base).

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An experiment with onchain apps on Base.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
@@ -161,13 +161,13 @@

AI on GPU — self-hosted speech services

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Dockerized speech AI for NVIDIA GPUs, tuned for the RTX 5090 / Blackwell generation.

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I wanted my projects to hear and speak without sending a single word to the cloud — so these run on my own GPU.

whisper-cuda

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OpenAI-Whisper-compatible ASR web service built for RTX 5090 (sm_120) — faster-whisper on CTranslate2/CUDA 12.8, no PyTorch.

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Speech-to-text on my own GPU: no cloud, no per-minute pricing. Whisper packaged for the RTX 5090 so anything in my homelab can transcribe audio locally.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • CUDA
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@

kokoro-cuda

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Minimal Kokoro TTS API with CUDA: 49 voices in 9 languages, streaming WAV/PCM plus MP3/Opus/FLAC, web UI included.

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Giving my projects a voice: a small self-hosted TTS service with 49 voices in 9 languages, fast enough to stream. Type text, hear it instantly.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • CUDA
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@

voxtral-cuda

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Text-to-speech service running Mistral's Voxtral-4B-TTS with CUDA acceleration via vLLM-Omni.

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The newest open speech models are amazing but heavy. This runs Mistral's Voxtral on a local GPU, so state-of-the-art speech stays in my own house.

  • Python
  • vLLM
  • CUDA
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@

stakingtracker

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Self-hosted ETH staking rewards tracker and tax-report generator — reads from your own beacon node, persists daily history to SQLite, no external APIs or keys.

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Tax season with an ETH validator used to mean paid APIs and spreadsheets. Now my own beacon node does the work: a small self-hosted app that records rewards daily and prints the tax report.

  • TypeScript
  • Fastify
  • SQLite
diff --git a/styles.css b/styles.css index 4643f63..275225f 100644 --- a/styles.css +++ b/styles.css @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ --accent: #58a6ff; --border: #30363d; --tag-bg: #1f2630; - --radius: 10px; + --radius: 12px; --maxw: 64rem; } @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ body { font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--fg); background: var(--bg); - line-height: 1.6; + line-height: 1.7; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; } @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ body { /* Header */ .site-header { - padding: 2.5rem 0 1.5rem; + padding: 3rem 0 2rem; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border); } .site-title { @@ -61,21 +61,23 @@ body { /* Sections */ .section { - padding: 2rem 0 0.5rem; + padding: 2.75rem 0 1rem; scroll-margin-top: 1rem; } -.section-head { margin-bottom: 1.25rem; } +.section-head { margin-bottom: 1.75rem; } .section-title { - font-size: clamp(1.15rem, 2.5vw, 1.5rem); - margin: 0 0 0.35rem; + font-size: clamp(1.2rem, 2.5vw, 1.6rem); + margin: 0 0 0.6rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; font-weight: 700; } -.section-desc { - margin: 0 0 0.4rem; +.section-lede { + margin: 0 0 0.6rem; color: var(--muted); - font-size: 0.95rem; - max-width: 48rem; + font-size: 1.05rem; + max-width: 46rem; + font-style: italic; + line-height: 1.65; } .section-link { color: var(--accent); @@ -88,8 +90,8 @@ body { /* Cards grid */ .cards { display: grid; - grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(17rem, 1fr)); - gap: 1rem; + grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(18rem, 1fr)); + gap: 1.25rem; } .card { @@ -98,59 +100,61 @@ body { background: var(--bg-elev); border: 1px solid var(--border); border-radius: var(--radius); - padding: 1.1rem 1.15rem 1.15rem; - transition: border-color 0.15s ease, transform 0.15s ease; + padding: 1.5rem 1.4rem 1.4rem; + transition: border-color 0.15s ease; } .card:hover { border-color: var(--accent); } .card:focus-within { border-color: var(--accent); } .card-name { - margin: 0 0 0.5rem; + margin: 0 0 0.75rem; font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.01em; } -.card-desc { - margin: 0 0 0.85rem; - color: var(--muted); - font-size: 0.92rem; +.card-story { + margin: 0 0 1.1rem; + color: var(--fg); + font-size: 1.02rem; + line-height: 1.65; flex: 1 1 auto; } -/* Tags */ +/* Tags — small, muted detail */ .tags { list-style: none; - margin: 0 0 0.9rem; + margin: 0 0 0.85rem; padding: 0; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 0.35rem; } .tags li { - font-size: 0.75rem; + font-size: 0.7rem; line-height: 1.4; color: var(--muted); background: var(--tag-bg); border: 1px solid var(--border); border-radius: 999px; - padding: 0.12rem 0.55rem; + padding: 0.1rem 0.5rem; white-space: nowrap; + opacity: 0.85; } -/* Card link */ +/* Card link — subtle, sits below the story */ .card-link { align-self: flex-start; - color: var(--accent); + color: var(--muted); text-decoration: none; - font-size: 0.9rem; - font-weight: 600; + font-size: 0.82rem; + font-weight: 500; } -.card-link:hover { text-decoration: underline; } +.card-link:hover { color: var(--accent); text-decoration: underline; } /* Footer */ .site-footer { - margin-top: 2.5rem; - padding: 1.5rem 0 2rem; + margin-top: 3rem; + padding: 1.75rem 0 2.25rem; border-top: 1px solid var(--border); } .footer-links { @@ -185,6 +189,6 @@ a:focus-visible { .cards { grid-template-columns: 1fr; } - .site-header { padding: 1.75rem 0 1rem; } - .section { padding: 1.5rem 0 0.25rem; } + .site-header { padding: 2rem 0 1.25rem; } + .section { padding: 2rem 0 0.5rem; } } \ No newline at end of file -- 2.54.0 From 1fa64edd4f70072d76f8319f759e983c4ab729ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: senior Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 08:11:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Address QA review: tag contrast, lede width, link rel, story spacing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - Bump tech-tag text color to --tag-fg (#8a929e dark / #57606a light) and raise opacity to 0.95 so chips stay legible on the dark card background - Give .section-lede display:block + max-width:60ch so the italic intro reads as a lede paragraph rather than a stretched heading - Add margin-block-start (0.5rem) to .card-story so the project name doesn't crowd the story - Add rel="noopener noreferrer" to all external GitHub links (card-link, section-link, footer) for external-link hardening - Section ordering already matches the issue spec; Ethereum infra has only stakingtracker — confirmed no stale/duplicated entry --- index.html | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- styles.css | 11 +++++++---- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 1012519..015b751 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

CipherDolls — AI companion platform

What if an AI companion wasn't just an app, but something physical in your room? CipherDolls is my biggest project: an AI companion platform where characters can talk, listen — and live inside real devices.

- github.com/cipherdolls ↗ + github.com/cipherdolls ↗
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
  • Bun
  • Elysia
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • MQTT
- View on GitHub ↗ + View on GitHub ↗
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
  • Solidity
  • React
  • Swarm PSS
  • WebRTC
- View on GitHub ↗ + View on GitHub ↗
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • CUDA
- View on GitHub ↗ + View on GitHub ↗
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ - View on GitHub ↗ + View on GitHub ↗ @@ -219,8 +219,8 @@