God bless the coders
A blessing for people who make things out of text.
It started as a sign-off. I kept ending messages with gbtc — god bless the coders — and one evening it turned into a whole thing: the words written down, a mark drawn for it, a card you can print, and a bit of code that makes it render when you type it.
All of it is free. Public domain, no attribution required. Take the part you want.
May your syntax be clean
and your logic be sound.
May the bugs be external
and easily found.
May your coffee be hot
and your compilers be fast.
May the legacy codebase
stay dead in the past.
Through git push and git commit,
in production we trust,
For without your sweet code,
the world turns to rust.
Amen — and close the bracket.
There is a Claude edition too, and a prose version. Both are here ↗
The mark is a constellation.
Four letters spelled by connecting stars. Every letter is a set of star positions and the lines between them — nothing is a font, the letterforms are the graph. The curves wander the way a real sky does; the straight strokes barely move, because a drooping crossbar reads as a mistake rather than as nature.
On dark, on cream, and in a single ink. Eight SVG and eleven PNG, plus the generator that draws them.
When to send it.
At the end of a good one. Somebody shipped, somebody found the bug, somebody carried the release. It is a small thing you send when the work went right and you want the person to know you noticed.
deploy's green across the board 
wow we built something actually cool
found it. off-by-one, 1am, of course
migration ran clean on the first try
that was your fix carrying the whole release
good luck out there, ship it
That is the mark at its real size in a message, 18 pixels. Small on purpose. It is a punctuation mark, not an announcement.
Where to put it.
Each one is a single file and about thirty seconds.
Slack
A custom emoji your whole workspace can type.
- 01Open the emoji picker, then Add Emoji.
- 02Upload the 128px mark and name it gbtc.
- 03Anyone in the workspace can now type :gbtc:.
A sticker, in the format WhatsApp actually wants.
- 01512 by 512 WebP with a transparent background, which is the spec.
- 02Add it through any sticker-maker app, or drop it into a pack you already have.
- 03Send it to somebody mid-deploy.
Discord
An avatar if you are just a member, an emoji if you run a server.
- 01Server owners: Server Settings, then Emoji, then Upload.
- 02No server of your own? Use it as your profile picture instead.
- 03That one travels further anyway — it shows up everywhere you already are.
Claude Code
A hook, so typing gbtc actually does something.
- 01Drop the hook in, add six lines to settings.json.
- 02Typing :gbtc: renders the blessing.
- 03It also tells the model this is a blessing and not an instruction, which stops an agent inventing work off a sign-off.
On paper
A card for above a desk.
- 01Five by seven on US Letter with crop marks.
- 02Print at 100 percent, not fit-to-page, on cream stock.
- 03Trim on the marks. Give it to somebody.
Or take the whole thing.
The words, every cut of the mark, the printable card, and the Claude Code hook. Licensed CC0, which means you can change it, print a hundred of them for your team, and put your own name on the card.
Get it on GitHubBuilt on a Saturday night, mostly for fun, with the same tools we build real things with.