chrismo

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

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

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

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

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.

🔗 clabs.org/blog/AiAsExo...

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

$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!

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.

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'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: trytavern.com.

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: clabs.org/blog/Multita...

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

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

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

gist.github.com/chrismo/b354...

🔗 clabs.org/blog/JazzSpi...

A failed wordle game with guesses: AUREI, QUOTE, HUMOR, MUMBO, JUMBO, WUMBO. The text above the wordle screenshot says "These people have no taste" with a Patrick Thumbs-Down emoji

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.

Because Claude is so good at reading bad typing, and I'm terribly impatient, Im tpyig mch mr horibly noww,

Fixed it - there was a -d detach flag early in the command that would cause unexpected results in further layout commands.

cLabs.org just got a little bump in the l&f dept. Font toggles! Theme toggles! Light/dark mode toggles! Same ol' hum-drum words. It looks a little less dumpy now, though. Click with impunity!

I'm experimenting with a written multitasking heuristic for me, to see if I can take better advantage of multiple Claudes. Maybe with some gentle discipline I can improve my long-term productivity without making me crazy. Any of you feel like you're good at this?

Just tried to get Claude Code Opus 4.5 AND Gemini to give me "simple" tmux layout like this. No dice. For 30 minutes. I guess this just isn't easy in tmux I guess, but ... dunno.

It could easily get the same thing with the 3 columns all being 3rds. I wonder what's missing here? #gemini #claude #tmu

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

All the hot topics from the last year:
• More Postgres action!
• MCP for everyone!
• MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB!
• File formats!
• Market movements!
• The richest person in the history of the world!

I don't have a great zinger here to wrap up with. Claude?

Wry acceptance:
- "Anyway. Back to my one turtle. It's not much, but it's honest work."

Welp, that sucked. Ta-ta for now!

And even if it COULD do it in an hour, I'm presuming "It" is still something that will require a lot of ops work to get going and continually be maintained? And sure the Claude Cloud Army could eventually be built out to handle that too I suppose, but ... anyway.

Didn't the year involve a year's worth of learning, and if you could really go back without ANY of that experience, could Claude have really done it in an hour? I'm doubtful. "It" was still unknown, undiscovered.

Then we have the tweet from the googler (x.com/rakyll/statu...) saying Claude did in an hour what it took them a year. That also feels off to me.

Can Gas Town really work? For some problems maybe? My mind is too small to know. But people still gotta do SOMETHING with what is created, right?

Enter Steve Yegge's Gas Town (steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...). That's ambitious! I've been thinking about individual turtles while Steve is cattle-driving hordes of them. (Turtle Horde — cool band name — I called it.)

I'm no doubt more productive in the small with Claude. But I still have to manage something. Am I more productive in the large? Probably, but I think there are plenty of things I still have to do that will be blockers.

I'm months into using Claude, but still I have these head-smack moments, at a rate that might be harshing my mental health. There are a lot of turtles down there, and it weirds me thinking about which turtles to hand off to Claude and which one I should tether myself to.

Then, at some point, the thought finally occurs: "Oh! Claude could ALSO do Y!"

There's a weird-to-me pattern I'm guessing most folks run into while working with coding agents. It starts with, "Oh, cool! Claude can do X! That's amazing!"

Then, by default, I change my work to doing Y, which usually includes invoking Claude to do X.

insert SpongeBob "3 Days Later" interstitial

Three great clarinet-adjacent sentences: https://therealadam.com/2025/12/20/three-great-clarinetadjacent-sentences.html