Saturday, 16th May 2026
[...] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology.
So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously as a technology, instead of devaluing it. Doing that changed everything for me: I learned that so many of my frustrations (“centering is impossible”) had been addressed in CSS a long time ago, and that also what “centering” means is not always straightforward and it makes sense that there are many ways to do it. CSS is hard because it’s solving a hard problem!
— Julia Evans, Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November.
Thanks to this first_line_history.py tool (code here) the answer, according to the Git history of the OpenClaw README, is:
Warelay → CLAWDIS → CLAWDBOT → Clawdbot → Moltbot →🦞 OpenClaw
Or in detail (the output from the tool):
2025-11-24T11:23:15+01:00 16dfc1 # Warelay — WhatsApp Relay CLI (Twilio) 2025-11-24T11:41:37+01:00 d4153d # 📡 Warelay — WhatsApp Relay CLI (Twilio) 2025-11-24T17:47:57+01:00 343ef9 # 📡 warelay — WhatsApp Relay CLI (Twilio) 2025-11-25T04:44:10+01:00 14b3c6 # 📡 warelay — WhatsApp Relay CLI 2025-11-25T12:48:40+01:00 481402 # 📡 warelay — Send, receive, and auto-reply on WhatsApp—Twilio-backed or QR-linked. 2025-11-25T13:50:18+01:00 d51a3e # warelay 📡 - Send, receive, and auto-reply on WhatsApp via Twilio or QR-linked WhatsApp Web; webhook setup in one command 2025-11-25T13:51:13+01:00 4d2a8a # 📡 warelay — Send, receive, and auto-reply on WhatsApp—Twilio-backed or QR-linked. 2025-11-25T14:52:43+01:00 1ef7f4 # 📡 warelay — Send, receive, and auto-reply on WhatsApp. 2025-12-03T15:45:32+00:00 a27ee2 # 🦞 CLAWDIS — WhatsApp Gateway for AI Agents 2025-12-08T12:43:13+01:00 17fa2f # 🦞 CLAWDIS — WhatsApp & Telegram Gateway for AI Agents 2025-12-19T18:41:17+01:00 771043 # 🦞 CLAWDIS — Personal AI Assistant 2026-01-04T14:32:47+00:00 246ada # 🦞 CLAWDBOT — Personal AI Assistant 2026-01-10T05:14:09+01:00 cdb915 # 🦞 Clawdbot — Personal AI Assistant 2026-01-27T13:37:47-05:00 3fe4b2 # 🦞 Moltbot — Personal AI Assistant 2026-01-30T03:15:10+01:00 9a7160 # 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant