Brianna

@mc.horse

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Engineering manager & ML engineer, former paleontologist. Building story games with NLP and other fun tools at Hidden Door.

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.
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.
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"
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.
Screenshot of a Slack status that says: "🏆 this three-PR sequence could (almost) have been a one-liner" (set until tomorrow)
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
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.
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.
A dark red Belgian Malinois dog sprawled along the length of a cozy bed, gazing beseechingly up at the camera for attention and pets.
A screenshot of a popup, with the Arc browser icon. The text is: mail.google.com says, "It seems like you forgot to attach a file." You wrote "Attached is" in your message, but there are no files attached. Send anyway? And then there's 'cancel' and 'OK' buttons.
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
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
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.
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.
A dense cranberry-pistachio cake sitting on a cutting board.
Five small baguettes cooling on a rack, slightly misshapen in that handmade-by-an-amateur sort of way.
A long haired black cat is tucked belly-up into someone's arm, eyes closed, front paws folded close and shiny black toe beans visible on the back paws. He is being tenderly cradled like a little baby.
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.
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.