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Brianna @mc.horse · 30/06/2026

THIS is the incredibly clear set of examples I was thinking of. From waxy.org/2026/06/tiny... which is just a lovely corner of the internet

A screenshot from the Tiny Awards 2026 nomination page.

Text says:
"I don’t think people realize that Claude has a distinct “house style,” which Anthropic acknowledges in their documentation:

> Claude Opus 4.8 has strong design instincts, with a consistent default house style: warm cream/off-white backgrounds (~#F4F1EA), serif display type (Georgia, Fraunces, Playfair), italic word-accents, and a terracotta/amber accent.

I’ll add to that: tiny all-caps headings in a monospaced font. Once you start seeing it, you can’t unsee it."

Below the text is a 3x2 grid of website screenshots, each one falling very much into the 'house style' described. The sites appear to be for an analysis of Guardian blind dates, "Absurdly Optimized" a site for home optimizations on a page about coffee bean grinders, an article for a hot take on willing your belongings to the article's author, a bilingual visual guide to the game Thaayam, a personal chess coach service, and "The Atlas of Missing Feelings."

All six look like they could have been made by the exact same person or website agency.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 28/06/2026

I'm kinda mad that I've liked purple gradients, and off-white/cream bg that looks like good paper, for years and now those are two of the biggest (Claude) vibe-coded website tells. I better go make some badly hand-drawn graphics or commit some font crimes or something

A screenshot of Brianna's website. It doesn't exactly look vibe-coded (because it's not) but it does feature a creamy off-white background, not-quite-black text, and a yellow-to-purple gradient in a divider bar.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 27/06/2026

An excellent point about the difficulty of putting one's actual self out there, and also reminds me of:

Modified version of the 3-panel dog with a ball comic (original is "Pls throw?? / No take!! / Only throw", except this one says "Pls rewards of being loved?? / No mortifying ordeal of being known!! Only rewards of being loved"

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Brianna @mc.horse · 25/06/2026

but hey thank you Honeycomb and my slow, steady side quest to always be Knowing Things About Prod, because this one would've been even gnarlier to track down without my beloved boards (and MCP)

A heatmap graph from Honeycomb, showing request durations over the last month or so. Things go from clustering pretty steadily around 0-5s to smeared up through 10-20s since late last week.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 25/06/2026

at my company we have a [loving] tradition of giving ourselves the status trophy when we do something foolish and I think that's beautiful totally unrelatedly GUESS WHO SPENT 3 DAYS CHASING ALL KINDS OF INFRA THINGS BECAUSE A DEFAULT FP32 CHANGED TO A DEFAULT FP16 WITH A LIBRARY UPGRADE

Screenshot of a Slack status that says: "🏆 this three-PR sequence could (almost) have been a one-liner" (set until tomorrow)

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Brianna @mc.horse · 27/04/2026

And, as I have come to expect and REALLY appreciate from Vicki, a clear plain-language breakdown of the technical steps. Not so much crunchy code-level how-to, but what decisions she made at the tech design level and why, or how the major pieces of each project fit together.

A graphic comparing Vicki's projects Viberary (2023) and Rijksearch (2026). Both have a flow, with sections connected by rightward arrows: Data Collection, Embedding Model, Indexing Embeddings, Inference and Servings.

The tools used at each step differ.
- Data Collection: book text metadata (2023), painting text & image (2026)
- Embedding Model: all-MiniLM-L6 (2023), Gemini Embedding APIs (2026)
- Indexing: FT.Search index (2023), Vector Sets (2026)
- Serving: Flask (2023), Go (2026)

AI assistant models are also shown for each step.

In Viberary (2023), only the Serving step has these flagged: ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Mistral 7B.

All steps of Rijksearch (2026) have AI assistant tags:
- Claude.ai and GPT-OSS-20b for Data Collection and Indexing
- Gemini and Perplexity for Embedding Model
- Claude.ai, GPT-OSS-20b, and Qwen Code 2.5B for Serving

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Brianna @mc.horse · 08/04/2026

A real code review comment I got to type with my own two hands.

Screenshot of text from a review comment on a GitHub pull request, saying: "In the (delightful) pottymouth achievement, I'd add poops and pooped as conjugations to bring poop in line with the others, e.g. fart."

The scatological words are formatted in monotype font as one would for code, lending an incongruously serious technical tone that is nevertheless accurate.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 07/06/2025

Boooo tummy why Here is a helpful hound snoot for you :(

Blurry close-up of a Belgian Malinois dog's upside-down face, mostly her nose (black with a little pink spot), slightly visible front teefs, and soulful eyes. Very sweet, very attentive.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 29/01/2025

Ugh, I feel you on sitting up in the ER waiting room being absolutely awful. Wishing you luck, care providers who take you seriously and listen, and swift recovery. Here's one extremely cozy medical alert hound, for morale.

A dark red Belgian Malinois dog sprawled along the length of a cozy bed, gazing beseechingly up at the camera for attention and pets.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 05/01/2025

I only forget once in a long while, but every time I do, I'm deeply grateful for one of the best pieces of UX of all time

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Brianna @mc.horse · 02/01/2025

the fishermen attached their big heavy boat hooks to doggerland all at the same time and pierced the peat-mat underneath and they hooked it good they got the balance just right and then very slowly they started to crank up the chains and the water was sluicing off the chains and cold (GO READ IT)

Screenshot of part of a poem:

lands lay under glacial sheets up to three kilometers thick but you could still go there just fine, and everybody was there

the fishermen attached their big heavy boat hooks to doggerland all at the same time and pierced the peat-mat underneath it and they hooked it good

they got the balance just right and then very slowly they started to crank up the chains

and the water was sluicing off the chains and cold

but it was coming up and everybody could see doggerland was coming up, green and cold and rich and stretching between modern-day Britain and what is today Belgium and southern Scandinavia, and it came right up, like a cherry off a tree

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Brianna @mc.horse · 01/01/2025

Oh hell, I'm so sorry. I was delighted to see more of you and Marshie over here... Losing them is the most devastating part of loving them. I'll be thinking of you. In hopes it might bring a tiny bit of joy, here's Fury (she hams like this deliberately to cheer people up)

A Belgian Malinois dog curled on her back, legs waving in the air, gazing with interest at the camera in a cardboard wreckage of her own creation

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Brianna @mc.horse · 30/12/2024

I think my favorite part is how the beginning of an interrupted sentence gets re-shown at the end of the snippet in slightly different font, so your brain isn't trying to hold or recapture that context when you get there.

A snippet of text from the project linked in the previous post. There is a nutshell expander in the middle of the sentence, "Even if you `:interrupt a sentence`, Nutshell recaps the sentences afterwards, so your reader never loses context."

The `:interrupt a sentence` part is expanded, showing an irrelevant aside.

Afterwards, you see the first part of the sentence ("Even if you `:interrupt a sentence`") shown again in a slightly lighter color, then the remainder of the sentence ("Nutshell recaps the sentence afterwards, so your reader never loses context.") in regular font.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 30/12/2024

Speaking of, holy cow the Terry Pratchett collector's edition covers are gorgeous. www.discworldemporium.com/product-cate...

Collector's edition covers for Terry Pratchett's Witches books. They're done in almost a colorblock or linocut style, in complementary colors with lots of purple and green and gray, with simple witch motifs and scenery like castles.

Covers of the collector's edition of Terry Pratchett's City Watch series. They're simple linocut style art in a variety of muted colors, with imagery of city streets, fire and dragons, swords, and golems.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 26/12/2024

I made this today! With some adjustments because I decided to run with my initial misconception that it was an upside-down style cake, and also can't do walnuts. Easy to make and wonderful flavor, would bake again. Thank you for sharing.

A dense cranberry-pistachio cake sitting on a cutting board.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 15/12/2024

But also look how cute my first mini baguettes were!

Five small baguettes cooling on a rack, slightly misshapen in that handmade-by-an-amateur sort of way.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 24/10/2024

If you see this, post something toothy 🦷 My favorite tooth beast after a round of joyous scent searching

A black and brown Belgian Malinois dog is lying down receiving neck scritches on soft bedding in the back of a car. Her mouth is wide open in a happy pant and she has MANY teeth. She's wearing a red and white collar that says SERVICE DOG but it's on upside down.

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Brianna @mc.horse · 29/08/2024

in case anyone was wondering how I am today

Screenshot of a Slack status for Brianna McHorse. The status says: "[trophy emoji] it's one enum, Michael, what could it cost? 2 days of dev time?" and is a reference to Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development asking what could one banana cost, $10? because she is out of touch with the reality of normal things.

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