Custom spinner themes for https://claude.ai/claude-code

Replace boring "Thinking..." messages with situational comedy. 60+ themes for developers, tech workers, and everyone who's ever been stuck at the DMV.

What It Looks Like

Instead of generic spinners, you get context-aware humor:

SQL Server — Estimating 1 row · Experiencing CXPACKET · Waiting on PAGEIOLATCH_SH

Stack Overflow — Marking as duplicate · Asking what you've tried · Finding a 10-year-old answer

Product Manager — Parking lotting that · Circling back · Asking what's the ask

Passive Aggressive — Per-my-last-emailing · Just following up · Friendly reminding

Highlights

Work Life

• Layoff Speak — Right-sizing the organization · Facing economic headwinds
• RTO Excuses — Having serendipitous encounters · Feeling the energy of being together
• LinkedIn Influencer — Announcing humbly · Letting that sink in

Developer Life

• Code Review — Nitpicking · LGTMing · Bikeshedding
• On-Call Engineer — Pager going off at 3am · Watching it fix itself
• Tech Interview — Reversing a linked list · Getting ghosted

Internet Culture

• AI Hype — Shoggoth-with-a-smiley-facing · Adding more RAG · Hallucinating
• Reply Guy — Actually-ing · Well-technically-ing · Replying at 3am
• YouTube Apology — Sitting on floor · Taking accountability · Monetizing the apology

Regional

• Midwesterner — Ope-ing · Sneaking right past ya · You betcha-ing
• Minnesota Nice — Saying the long goodbye · Standing by the door 40 minutes

Everyday

• DMV Visit — Now serving G-247 · Missing a document · Coming back tomorrow
• Ending Phone Call — Anyway-ing · Triple bye-ing · Still on the line somehow

Installation

Copy the spinnerVerbs block from any theme's JSON into ~/.claude/settings.json and restart Claude Code.

https://github.com/MrJoeSack/spinner-themes