🐢 and 🐇 in My Claude Code Status Line
The author, Yukihiro Amadatsu, shares a custom status line script for Claude Code that visualizes token usage with a tortoise and hare metaphor, comparing actual usage to an ideal pace over a five-hour window. The script uses emojis to represent progress, with warnings when usage is too fast, and integrates with Claude's JSON-based status line API. This approach provides a more intuitive understanding of pacing than percentages alone.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 852203) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } yukihiro amadatsu Posted on Apr 30 🐢 and 🐇 in My Claude Code Status Line #claude #programming #productivity #showdev The Claude Code status line gives you a JSON blob and lets you render whatever you want. Docs here. I made mine an Aesop's fable — borrowing the idea from Rabbit, a presentation tool by Kouhei Sutou that famously races a rabbit against a tortoise to show whether you're on pace.
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