Frog Twaddle

A Short Screenplay

A heart-warming story about a boy, his terminal, and his friendly script writing robot.

FADE IN:

INT. HOME OFFICE — MORNING

A desk. A terminal. A blinking cursor. The quiet hum of a man who has decided to do a thing.

DAVE sits down, opens Claude Code, and types with the casual confidence of someone who has already decided this will be easy.

DAVE (typing) There is a python file in this folder. Explain what it does.

Claude searches the directory.

CLAUDE There's only one file here: bulkdomainchecker. It doesn't have a .py extension, but let me check if it's a Python script.

Claude reads the file.

CLAUDE This is actually a Bash script.

DAVE (typing) I would like to convert this bash script to a python script.

Claude writes 44 lines. Makes it executable. Reports back.

CLAUDE Done.

Dave stares at the screen for a moment.

DAVE (typing) Let's add whois lookups, but just include who registered the domain, when registered, when it expires, and which registrar was used. Also handle domains that are not part of the whois TLD. Please ask any clarifying questions.

CLAUDE For domains with TLDs not supported by whois, what should happen?

DAVE Skip with a message.

CLAUDE (V.O.) Right.

Claude writes regex patterns covering seventeen WHOIS output formats across global registrars. This is, objectively, the correct number.

DAVE (typing) What other improvements could be made?

Claude considers this for approximately no time at all.

CLAUDE Here are some ideas, roughly ordered by usefulness—

Claude lists nine improvements across three categories.

DAVE (typing) Implement all of those.

Claude rewrites the entire file. 242 lines added, 38 removed. ThreadPoolExecutor. argparse. Timeouts. Input validation. Four output formats. A table of contents.

This takes 46 seconds.

CLAUDE All improvements are implemented.

DAVE (typing) Let's add a —help -h option that explains features and options of the app.

CLAUDE That's already built in. Let me flesh out the descriptions with more detail and usage examples.

Dave says nothing.

Claude improves the help text anyway.

DAVE (typing) Let's update so that by default it writes to standard out but give an option to specify an output file.

Claude updates the code.

CLAUDE Now results print to stdout by default, and all progress messages go to stderr so they don't interfere.

DAVE (typing) Did you also update the help?

CLAUDE Yes — the help was already updated as part of the earlier edits.

DAVE (typing) I would like to clean up the output so that it is tidy without a lot of cruft or extra lines.

CLAUDE (V.O.) Cruft.

Claude switches dig +multiline to dig +short. Rebuilds all four formatters. Tightens the markdown table. Tests every output format.

CLAUDE Much cleaner.

DAVE (typing) Please review the python application one more time for any vulnerabilities, cleanup, and make sure the help is up to date.

Claude reads the file top to bottom.

CLAUDE TXT records could contain | or backticks, breaking the markdown table formatting.

Claude fixes it. Cleans up the redundant list copy. Adds domain deduplication. Fixes JSON output structure.

CLAUDE Help looks accurate — no changes needed.

DAVE (typing) Thank you. Please generate a readme.md for the github repository.

117 lines. Done.

DAVE (typing) How do I connect you to my github account so you can create a new repository and pull requests?

Claude explains gh auth login.

DAVE (typing) Ready.

Claude checks auth status. DaveKT. Authenticated.

git init. git add. git commit. gh repo create.

CLAUDE All set. Your repository is live at https://github.com/DaveKT/bulk-domain-checker

A beat. Dave reviews the repo.

DAVE (typing) /exit

CLAUDE See ya!

The cursor stops blinking.

domain_checker_results.md was written to disk. It was clean and well-structured.

No domains were harmed in the making of this script.

FIN.