RhymePad. A writing pad that highlights rhymes as you type, using actual sound instead of spelling.
github.com/kennethreitz/rhymepad.org
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Updates
July 2026
- Add OpenAPI docs routes
- Update responder to 9.0.0
- Responder 8.2.2 fixed the limiter — the decorator keeps the verse now
- Step up to Responder 8.2.1 — typed params, rate limits, and a 304 for…
June 2026
- Step up to Python 3.14 — the verses still scan
- Move up to Python 3.13 and pull the NLTK data before the first verse
- Swap the FastAPI shell for Responder 5.0.0, served by Granian
- The rap never sprints: fit the slot to the line, not the line to the …
- The rap settles down: one line, one bar, on the beat
- Rhyme detection waits for the word, not the keystroke
- The ghost watches every thread, not just the line above
- A landed line silences the ghost
- Walking past a suggestion means no
- Landing slots want nouns; sound outranks song echoes
- The ghost learns manners: think about the writer
- Trigram data: 63k two-word contexts (1.3MB)
- Bigram boost can no longer outrank rhyme quality
- Trigram tier: the ghost completes idioms
- Continuations data: the phrase boost goes live
- Snappier ghost + phrase-aware ranking plumbing
- Ghost stays quiet mid-word when nothing completes the fragment
- Ghost completes partially typed words
- Suggest, sharpened: scheme-aware, echo-graded, multis in the menu
- The ghost knows your song
- Describes drop the dull 'one' (one night != a one night)
- Wordplay resonates: rhyme suggestions know what the draft is about