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Creating a Claude Desktop Buddy With Clawd GIFs

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0700

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.

Oblique Strategies Strategies

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0700

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.

This Is Not The Future We Want

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0700

Bad energy.

Ten Principles of Good Design

Tue, 19 May 2026 07:00:00 -0700

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

Letting an AI 🦞 Help Run My Website

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:45:00 -0800

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.