Re:Ask HN: What are your best Claude Code custom spinner verbs?
by Alexzoofficial on Sunday April 05, 2026 @11:21AM
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haha these are actually great, some of these hit a little too close to home
i’ve been playing around with a few like this as well, nothing too clever, just stuff that feels like what’s actually going on while coding:
- okay why is this suddenly broken
- hold on… this was literally working a minute ago
-trying one more thing before i give up”
- nope, that made it worse
- guess i’m opening stack overflow again
- there’s no way it should be this complicated
- i’ll just leave it like this for now
- not touching that file, not today
- good enough, moving on
- i’ll come back and fix this later
and yeah that star trek working… one is kind of perfect, simple but it just fits
i’ve been playing around with a few like this as well, nothing too clever, just stuff that feels like what’s actually going on while coding:
- okay why is this suddenly broken - hold on… this was literally working a minute ago -trying one more thing before i give up” - nope, that made it worse - guess i’m opening stack overflow again - there’s no way it should be this complicated - i’ll just leave it like this for now - not touching that file, not today - good enough, moving on - i’ll come back and fix this later
and yeah that star trek working… one is kind of perfect, simple but it just fits