C-TPO

Behind the site · just for fun

Arts and crafts

The fun corner. Cartoons and little animations about technology, work and the people in it. Nothing here is advice, and none of it is about anyone in particular. It's where the ideas go to play.

It started when someone else's cartoon about IT made me want to play. The ideas are mine; Claude draws them in code, and we argue about the jokes. For the videos and visuals that go with the writing, see Media.

Just a ballpark

Three-panel SVG strip, hand-coded with Claude. Napkin not included. October 17, 2026.

Someone from the business asks for an innocent number, on the spot. Napkin math, nobody will hold you to it. The whole room turns and looks at you, so you scribble something. The next morning it's on the big screen. Every estimate is a commitment to somebody.

Idea: Mine, from more meetings than I can count. The drawing is Claude's.

The swirl

Canvas animation, hand-coded with Claude. Loops forever, like the ideas. October 17, 2026.

Everything I take in goes into the swirl: courses, books, pitching, the kids, boats, the news, the feeds I read without much discipline. It comes out all over the place. AI catches it, sorts it, cleans it up, and sends out something a lot prettier than what went in. Not everything makes it, and that is fine: some of it gets parked.

Idea: Mine. The drawing is Claude's, after a lot of back and forth. · How I use AI · Credits: what feeds the swirl

Beauty is in the eye of the persona

SVG cartoon, hand-coded with Claude. No real terminals were harmed. October 17, 2026.

A trader looks at his setup: five screens, a TV and a squawk box, every inch of it orange on black. His eyes pop out and his heart is trying to leave his suit. Next to him, a minimalist designer wonders who on earth designed it. Both are right. There's no universal good user experience, only good user experience for this person's job. (I got migraines looking at trader screens. Traders loved them.)

Idea: Mine. The drawing is Claude's, in our own style. · The persona lenses on this site

For people short on time

TL;DR

Matt thinks out loud here about technology, mostly how teams decide what to build, fix and protect.

The first series argues that security gets better fastest when the teams that each hold part of the answer share it earlier. Part 2 says most critical findings aren't: seven questions tell you which, and the answers live with other teams. Clay first, chisel later is about roughing out the whole thing before polishing the parts.

Every piece says how much AI helped, and the site changes in the open. The discussion happens on LinkedIn.

Start with Part 1 →
AI score 2/4 me. Idea 1.5/2 · Words 0.5/2. AI drafted these from what's on the site; I haven't rewritten them yet

Updated October 14, 2026. A TL;DR for the whole site, by reader, is an idea by Matt at ctpo.io. Copy it freely, just link back.