Downgrading Claude Code to run on my Raspberry Pi

This is a secret post that you won't see if you only subscribe to my newsletter. I'm doing this on purpose because I want to write on my site more, but I don't necessarily want to blast the whole email list every time! But how did I do it?

The short story is, I used Claude Code on my Raspberry Pi to create my newsletter service, but nowadays CC doesn't work on 32-bit systems. I diagnosed the issue with a regular Claude convo, and my options were to upgrade my Raspberry Pi to a 64 bit OS (too much work), or downgrade CC to an earlier version. It helped me navigate the right version with npm and I was off to the races.

Separately, I used Anthropic's "codex" version of Claude to create a pull request that will simply check my posts for a send_newsletter tag before sending an email. This post doesn't have that tag! Using CC on my Pi, it deftly navigated pulling the PR, stashing my localized changes, and reapplying them after the upgrade. 

I expect I'll write more posts, but probably with less quality. No worries, I'll make sure the good stuff makes the newsletter!