Weekly Digest

Your weekly roundup of Claude Code news and tips

Week 14, 2026

Mar 30 - Apr 5, 2026

Summary

Anthropic released experimental terminal rendering features while the community patched a critical token drain bug.

Quick Tip

Enable experimental terminal renderer

Launch with CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 to stop UI flickering and enable terminal mouse events.

Insights

1Launch Claude with CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 to enable a flicker-free terminal with mouse support.
2Run /web-setup to sync local GitHub credentials with your web sessions.
3Switch OpenClaw authentication to a direct Claude API key to prevent service interruption.
4Claim your free usage credits to offset the recent unexpected token drain.
5Compile the Claude Code executable from source to build custom mods.
6Enable computer use features natively on Windows for Claude Cowork and Desktop.
7Run /buddy to start a collaborative coding session.

Featured Tweets

AnthropicAI

New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model. All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.

bcherny

Today we're excited to announce NO_FLICKER mode for Claude Code in the terminal It uses an experimental new renderer that we're excited about. The renderer is early and has tradeoffs, but already we've found that most internal users prefer it over the old renderer. It also supports mouse events (yes, in a terminal). Try it: CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 claude

bcherny

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.