You can strip the DRM fairly easily these days if you have an ACSM file, I vibecoded this the other day after I couldn’t find any online converter that actually worked: https://www.acsm-converter.com
I'm having a hard time adjusting to the Project Panel on the right (and, at least for me, hidden by default) - seems like they're trying to bury the concept of a 'file'?
It's certainly interesting though, and I'll give it some time - the post says "It feels more natural once you've spent a little time with it"
I think it's more that you don't need to look at the actual tree structure all that often, especially when most codebases follow logical and conventionalised structures you remember these structures and can use Command-P to search for files individually to open and the tree structure becomes something you peek at infrequently to ensure that everything is going in it's right place.
Cute! Cactus for me. Nice animations too - looks like there were multiple of us asking Claude to reverse engineer the system. I did a slightly deeper dive here if you're interested, plus you can see all the options available: https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/
(I didn't think to include a UUID checker though - nice touch)
Neat! That's a great write up, cool to see others looking into it.
I do wonder if they're going to do anything with the stats and shinies bit. Seems like the main piece of code for buddies that's going to handle hatching them tomorrow is still missing (comments mention a missing /buddy/index file), so maybe it'll use them there.
I've posted here before about Claude Code's easter eggs [1] and they're back with another one this year for April Fools: Tamagotchi-style "buddies" appearing as ASCII art companions, determined by your userId.
Thanks to the Claude Code source code leak I was able to reverse engineer how it all works. Due to their PRNG choice (Mulberry32) it's trivial to crack all 4.29 billion seeds in seconds.
Some findings:
- 1% legendary chance: 42,989,564 seeds out of 2^32 produce legendaries
- Stats & shiny appear to be dead code: rolled but never read anywhere. Pure bragging rights?
- Commons can't have hats, only uncommon+ rolls from the hat table
- "God" rolls exist: legendary + shiny + a maxed stat at 100.
No wonder they don't publish an availability percentage. If I was a business customer paying for GitHub I would be very upset with the availability lately.
Someone built an archive of Github statuses to show aggregate uptime, last month and this month Github's uptime is below 90%, not even one "nine" of availability: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
87% uptime for Github in February 2026. They've got to get it together.
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