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Claude As VisiCalc

chrismo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:58:03 +0000

I'm feeling more like the stuff I'm making with Claude is like, "Hey, look at this spreadsheet I made today!" Some of it FEELS pretty polished, but no one really needs MY spreadsheets, and vice-versa. Sharing is still useful though, to consolidate the re-usable stuff.

March Word Contrail

chrismo — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:54:16 +0000

Still churning on a useful blend of building v. publishing. I'm wanting to publish more, but I like building too much. Here's a word contrail from my unpublished drafts: Claude, code, cognitive debt, comprehension, subtle, fuzzy, parallel, faster. I need to add: slower, pace. :D

Hard to be humble

chrismo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:00:05 +0000

Man, I would love a thorough retraining of Claude to use accurate fact/theory language. "You're absolutely right!" is gone, but "I'm absolutely right!" lives on. I guess humble training data is hard to come by.

Disciplines and Instincts

chrismo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:40:56 +0000

Agentic coding hasn't altered age-old principles, but man, my instincts aren't calibrated yet. It's an uncanny valley. Humans are (generally) consistent. Agents can be all over the map but still carry a human appearance. One source of cognitive debt for me is being too trusting.

Buildings vs. Owning

chrismo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:01:06 +0000

Claude is an amazing builder, but a terrible owner.

Cheap Donut For Sale - Olympic Edition

chrismo — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:45:18 +0000

Does your team wanna use Donut in Slack, but it costs too much? ಥ_ಥ

Try Tavern → $20/mo, 200 match credits. https://trytavern.com

Thank you for reading my crummy commercial. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

...

That's it. Lame, I know. ... But, like, how are YOU? What's happening? Did you watch any Olympics?

Ai As Exoskeleton

chrismo — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:42:39 +0000

An exoskeleton that enabled me to effortlessly travel 20 mph, carry 500 lbs, and jump on top of my house would make me incredibly more useful. But I'd guess most things in society would remain the same for a while.

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Gas Town Jr in Claude

chrismo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:26:08 +0000

Claude added Gas Town Jr yesterday. I wanna try it, but with many irons in the fire, I dunno if I'll burn up my usage so fast I have to like, go take a walk or something ridiculous like that. Links in here: https://clabs.org/blog/MultitaskingWithClaude

Tavern Bald or Bold

chrismo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 04:45:44 +0000

I can never remember if it's bold-faced or bald-faced. Either way, this is a faced commercial for my new Slack app: https://trytavern.com

When Donuts are too pricey for yer budget, head down to the Tavern. (งツ)ว

Tavern's Ready

chrismo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 04:09:16 +0000

It's been several weeks since I posted about my side-project, Tavern, but now it's ready — and by "ready" I mean "credit card processing works." Check it out: https://trytavern.com.

Tavern is a Slack app for regularly matching up folks like Donut. But unlike most other apps in this space, which run from $50 to even as much as $300/month for a 50-person team, Tavern does it for 20 bucks.

It doesn't do all the other stuff they do, but if all you really need is to make connections in your group, Tavern's a better deal.

$20 gets you 200 match credits a month. Each pairing of two (or three) people uses one credit. A 100-person channel matched weekly fits right in, or 10 teams of 20 could each match twice a month.

It's been in production at my current gig for a couple of months now, and it's working great!

You can try it free for 7 days: https://trytavern.com.

Jazz spinnerVerbs for Claude

chrismo — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:06:41 +0000

Some hastily done half-slop/half-meh jazz spinnerVerbs for Claude 2.1.23.

https://gist.github.com/chrismo/b35434593e06fe4a2ea6eca13e4786da

Dangling Claudes

chrismo — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:32:04 +0000

I found like three dozen extra claude processes on my work lappy today and about six extra on my personal laptop. What's up? Many of them needed a niner on the ol' pkill command. Not sure if they were gumming up the works or just hanging around trying to look cool.