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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 27/11/2025

webcomic_name_oh_no dot gif

The start of a Gemini chat reply: "To understand the difference between these two fields, it is helpful to visualize the Large Language Model (LLM) as a talented improvisational actor."

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 12/09/2025

:oh-no: There's more than one accessibility problem in my TUI app. Some are easier to fix than others... (This is iTerm2; in GhosTTY there's simply no VoiceOver)

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 07/09/2025

Older teletypewriter manual (TG-16 and TG-17)

DESTRUCTION NOTICE
WHY---To prevent the enemy from using or salvaging this equipment for his benefit.
WHEN---When ordered by your commander.
HOW--- 1. Smash---Use sledges, axes, handaxes, pickaxes, hammers, crow
bars, heavy tools.
2. Cut---Use axes, handaxes, machetes.
3. Burn---Use gasoline, kerosene, oil, grenades.
flame throwers, incendiary TNT.
4. Explosives---Use firearms, grenades,
5. Disposal---Bury in slit trenches, fox holes, other holes. Throw in streams. Scatter.

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 07/09/2025

"DIRECTORY HOLDER" (Yes I have opened up a Teletype manual again. What's it to you?)

Line drawing of a teletype machine with a rotary phone dial on the top panel and a "directory holder" installed on the side, labelled.

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 06/09/2025

Found a peppering of adages in a c. 1963 Teletype manual (www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/...)

Circuit diagram with the printed text "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day" in a blank area. Maybe a sticker?

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 12/08/2025

(From a 1975 DEC PDP-11 component manual)

The following are trademarks of Digital Equipment
Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts:
DEC
FLIP CHIP
DIGITAL
PDP
FOCAL
COMPUTER LAB

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 10/08/2025

ChatGPT offered, I'm not sure why 🤷

A ChatGPT-generated image of a brown office desk with a keyboard, monitor, and minicomputer sitting on top. It's meant to represent a VT100 terminal and a DEC PDP-11 minicomputer. Text on the screen and the front of the computer are garbled as we've come to expect from diffusion-generated images.

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 22/02/2025

Current state of Claude/my prompt skills: I can't get Claude to generate an svg for log-log graph paper. If I show it its own output, it tells me it's wrong but can't fix it. It can generate a Python script to generate the svg, though. I just had to flip the vertical spacing.

One decade of Claude-generated "log-log" graph paper. I'm not sure if there's rhyme or reason to the uneven spacing of the closer lines, but they're hard-coded so I also can't check. The top of the decade has the widest vertical spacing.

A decade of log-log graph paper generated by the Python script Claude generated almost single-handedly. Looks good to me.

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 13/01/2025

One of these things is not like the other... Actually, two. Two of these things. Wait, three? The others are now diluting my enjoyment of the standout.

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 19/12/2024

Writing alt-text inspired me to practice my skills of description on ChatGPT. It's a different skill when your reader doesn't understand "three" or "no wings" or "top hat"

ChatGPT image of a cartoonish bristly red plastic bird (with wings and legs) standing in a T-pose on a branch of a sparse Christmas tree, a be-tuqued white fabric or felted snowman atop its shoulders.

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 19/12/2024

Three ornaments in a fir tree with multicoloured lights in the background. The ornaments are red flocked plastic birds (wingless and legless), each with a white, red-scarfed, top-hatted imp or snowman astride it.

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 17/12/2024

You can tell a model to lift a section of an SVG and put it into another one. Not quite predictable, but more deterministic than a diffusion process. Now it's art :P

Poster-style SVG generated by Claude 3.5 Sonnet, after a fair session of prompting, depicting a pelican riding a bicycle with a field of sunflowers, mountains, and a reddish evening sun in the background. More or less.

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Clutterstack @clutterstack.com · 17/12/2024

Inspired by @simonwillison.net, a pelican on a bicycle by Claude 3.5 Sonnet (but with follow-up prompts). I can't pretend it's art, but it is charming to me that Claude and I agree that everything in this image is a thing--and we both know where it is. Even if we don't agree on what it looks like.

SVG, generated by Claude 3.5 Sonnet, depicting a "pelican" on a "bicycle", after three clarifying prompts.

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