If you’ve used Claude Code for more than five minutes, you’ve seen it. That single word that cycles above the blinking cursor while Claude is off doing its thing. Pondering… then Orchestrating… then, if you’re lucky, Flibbertigibbeting… Those are spinner verbs. Table of contents What even is a spinner verb? A spinner verb is the gerund (the -ing word) that […]

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If you’ve tried running a local model through Ollama with Claude Code and been greeted by this message: There’s an issue with the selected model (qwen3-coder:30b). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model. …even though the model is clearly installed and runs fine […]

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