Dev builds conference slides as Go TUI apps with Claude, served over SSH
nptacek · x · 2026-09-28
Developer klobuc.ar shares how Claude built both of his fall conference talks as Go programs that run as terminal UIs instead of Keynote decks, done in about two weeks with a full framework emerging along the way.
- Why a terminal: It's fun and engineering-friendly — slides-as-code means tests, linter, diffs, and the deck lives in a repo, with pixel art, code-drawn animations, and big block letters.
- Prompt strategy: A pre-written build prompt in his notes vault instructs Claude to start a fresh session in an empty repo after copying research: an evidence dossier, the talk outline, and the full text of Bill Gates's 2002 Trustworthy Computing memo.
- SSH twist: Opus 5.5 put one deck behind an SSH server — connect with any name, no password, and arrow through your own copy with no shell access, address to be shared after November 12.
- At one point it took four different models to draw a cartoon worm on a sled.
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