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    Killing OpenClaw for a native Claude Code setup

    I love OpenClaw. I hate that it doesn't run on my Claude Pro subscription. Turns out Claude Code, with the Telegram channels plugin and one CLAUDE.md, is the same harness — minus the daemon, the API bill, and the second LLM provider. Here's the actual recipe, ported from a hotel in Tokyo to a Mac mini in Chicago in forty minutes.
  2. 02

    Claude: Anthropic just shipped most of OpenClaw
  3. 03

    Building a tiny local LLM starter for real projects
  4. 04

    The Compounding Agent: Why Hermes Is More Than Just a Pretty TUI
  5. 05

    Claude: How prompt caching actually works
  6. 06

    How I make tokens last longer
  7. 07

    DESIGN.md: Reverse Design Engineering for Portable Taste
  8. 08

    Claude Code: 10 CLI flags you probably aren't using
  9. 09

    OpenClaw: I Switched My Agent Stack from Claude to OpenAI Codex
  10. 10

    gstack: Garry Tan's Claude Setup Is 🔥
Dining Archive →
🍽 Italian Sausage Dry-Rub

Italian Sausage Dry-Rub

Garlic Cilantro Lime Rice

Corned Beef: The Dutch Oven St. Patrick's Day Braise

Banana Bread
Life Stories →

Sumo: My First Grand Tournament in Tokyo

We missed the original ticket sale, got rescued by a tour, and spent an afternoon learning how much more fun sumo is when someone helps you understand what you're watching.

Claude Code: My Sensei

I'm going to Japan in 2 months. Instead of paying for another app, I built a Japanese learning plugin for Claude Code and used it to learn conversational Japanese for free — using Claude Pro I already pay for.