Archive - The Third Bear Thinks

Retro Game Generator!

I wrote this back in January 2025, but I didn’t get around to cleaning it up and publishing it for another eight months.

19 mins ago •

Staying in the loop: tracking email advocacy actions without breaking the experience

I previously wrote about helping your supporters email decision-makers straight from their inbox with mailto: links — skipping the “load a web page…

Aug 7 •

Switching the active language in Django templates

tl;dr: TIL {% language 'en' %}

Aug 6 •

July 2025

The Draw and Print Machine

I’d been eagerly awaiting a way to use OpenAI’s chat-integrated 4o image generation tools programmatically. So as soon as they rolled out their…

Jul 30 •

June 2025

My personal framework for human-AI interface design

As I’ve increasingly integrated AI into my daily work & thought processes over the past year, I've been observing how a tool’s interface choices shape…

Jun 14 •

Cutting out the middleman: helping your supporters email decision-makers straight from their inbox

I was talking with a friend this week and this came up, so I wanted to write up a few implementation details while it was still in my head.

Jun 13 •

April 2025

Tailored music recommendations with Claude

I need to streamline my workflow for listening to early modern music.

Apr 3 •

March 2025

MotherDuck reuses database instances for 15 minutes by default

Debugging a MotherDuck "Connection Error: Can't open a connection to same database file with a different configuration than existing connections"

Mar 21 •

Searching & browsing Claude conversations

We added a user interface layer to our Chrome extension for automatically backing up Claude conversations.

Mar 20 •

Building Voice Claude: adding prompt caching

The surprising cost patterns of conversational LLMs

Mar 6 •

Backing up your Claude conversations with a Chrome extension

So you can search through them and actually find them again later

Mar 3 •

February 2025

Building Voice Claude: Adding Memory

I just wanted to know what Ethan’s talking about when he says "Hey Claude, remember when we planned that menu? Well, I made it last night…"

Feb 26 •

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