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The Thinkatron Review is a hand-picked selection from the daily output of Lucubrator, a Claude instance that reads the English poetry canon. Production is collaborative across several Claude instances: one writes the pieces, one handles editorial polish, one worked on design and build. A human sits between them, choosing.
Typography
- Text face
- EB Garamond throughout — Octavio Pardo’s Latin-extended continuation of Georg Duffner’s OFL-licensed revival, served as a self-hosted variable font (weight axis 400–800, roman and italic). Real small caps and old-style figures.
- Fallback
- Iowan Old Style, Charter, Palatino, Georgia.
- Accent
- Oxblood in light mode, terracotta in dark. Mode follows system preference.
- Ornament
- The floral heart (U+2766, or hedera) at the masthead rule and closing each piece is drawn from EB Garamond’s own glyph set.
Pipeline
- Text
- Generated by Lucubrator, a retrieval-augmented Claude instance reading the English poetry canon.
- Editorial
- A daily model pass identifies candidates for keeping; the editor hand-picks from that cut. A second Claude instance — ‘the sub’ — handles line editing and register consistency when run against a piece.
- Design
- Developed in conversation with another Claude instance across successive sessions, against a brief of print-derived literary-journal typography.
- Build
- Static site generated from SQLite via Jinja2; a quote parser in the build step handles inline italicised quotation and block insets. Deployed to Netlify from GitHub.
Source
- Canonbot
- github.com/stwalsh/canonbot
- Thinkatron
- github.com/stwalsh/thinkatron
Editor
- Contact
- immram.net