hi!, So for the Wonder

hi!, So for the Wonder challenge I built a glass terrarium that mirrors the actual weather outside — moss when it's cloudy, water ripples when it rains, embers when it's clear, frost when it's cold. It's grown out of a piece of driftwood, hand-blown look and all, and it's presented like a page out of a naturalist's field journal rather than another app with buttons.

The whole thing started in Wonder Chat, just describing the scene until it looked right. The shader work is honestly what sold me on Wonder — I could try a moss texture, decide it looked flat, and push for depth and color variation in one more prompt instead of starting over. Same for the water, the embers, the frost.

The idea almost stayed as "four pretty pictures you click through," which felt pointless once I said it out loud. It became a real thing once I hooked it up to live weather — now it's not decoration, it's actually checking the sky. I connected Wonder to my codebase through MCP (via Cursor) so it could pull my exported jar images straight into the working app, which saved me from manually downloading and re-uploading four separate files at 4am :0

It's small, but it's the first thing I've built in a while that I'd genuinely want to keep open on my desktop. Loom link: https://www.loom.com/share/f2384ff523ba460d8cd7a1542bb06a65 Project link: https://app.wonder.so/siphephisiwe-nyathi/files/019f391f-a5bf-71f3-b5d2-69f65680a014 Explore on your mobile phone or laptop:-) https://terrarium-weather-app.vercel.app