Creating a Claude Desktop Buddy With Clawd GIFs

Immediately after watching How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses Claude | Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic), the tinkery part of my brain lit up and I found myself ordering a twenty-dollar M5StickC PLUS. The Claude Desktop Buddy GitHub repo code has everything you need to run the basic ASCII pets (18 variations!) and a GIF-pets example starring the Bufo froge. But, did I want ASCII pets? No. Bufo GIFs? No. I wanted Clawd GIFs. Animations of Claude’s mascot. ...

July 25, 2026 · 2 min

Oblique Strategies Strategies

Following the release of Fable in early June, I thought a fun Claude Design + Fable project would be creating a virtual version of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies Deck, a set of lateral thinking dilemmas I’ve long admired. I got started shortly before our brilliantly boneheaded government made the questionable move of taking away our access to Fable. So, let’s pause for hamstrings. Anyway, I was more interested in initial output than a process of refinement, and what follows is all the former and none of the latter. A documentation of the process, if you will. ...

July 19, 2026 · 5 min

This Is Not The Future We Want

Bad energy.

July 18, 2026 · 1 min

Ten Principles of Good Design

I love that I can have an idea, and because of agentic tools, shortly thereafter have a result. ...

May 19, 2026 · 1 min

Letting an AI 🦞 Help Run My Website

I’ve been running this site on Hugo for a while now. Static files, a GitHub repo, a GitHub Actions pipeline that deploys on push. Simple enough that I could mostly ignore it, which is exactly what I did for longer than I’d care to admit. The problem with “simple enough to ignore” is that you also ignore the stuff you actually want to do: post more, keep things tidy, tweak the small things that bother you but not enough to open terminal. ...

February 26, 2026 · 3 min