Metadata3/18/2026

Claude Code experiment: Visualizing Hybrid Logical Clocks

Murat (noreply@blogger.com)
Yesterday morning I downloaded Claude Code, and wanted to see what this bad boy can do. What better way to learn how this works than coding up a toy example with it. The first thing that occurred to me was to build a visualizer for Hybrid Logical Clocks (HLC). HLC is a simple idea we proposed in 2014 : combine physical time with a logical counter to get timestamps that are close to real time but still safe under clock skew. With HLC, you get the best of both worlds: real-time affinity augmented