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A connector failed for two nights and I never noticed — instrumenting my solo setup after observability went to public beta
The week connector observability hit public beta, I realized my one-person operation had no view into errors or latency. Here is how I wrapped my MCP connector calls in a thin meter and started reviewing it weekly.
When Instructions Fade in Long Conversations: Measuring Adherence and Pulling It Back
System-prompt instructions quietly lose their grip as a conversation grows. This piece turns that drift into a number you can track, then fixes it with prompt structure and mid-conversation re-anchoring, backed by runnable code and measured results.
Claude in Chrome Went GA and I Stopped Babysitting the Tab — Where Background Notifications and Handoff Actually Help
Claude in Chrome's general availability adds background notifications, draft handoff, and better failover. As someone who hands browser work to it daily in solo development, here's what to notify on, what to leave running, and the settings I actually changed.
Three Ways to Start with Claude — Browser, Desktop, and Mobile, and How to Use Each
A clear walkthrough for getting started with Claude on the browser, desktop app, and iPhone/Android — plus how to combine all three so your day flows smoothly. Written from the perspective of a solo app developer who lives across all three.
Pointing Claude Design at Your Codebase: Closing the Design-to-Implementation Loop Solo
The June 17 update lets Claude Design start from your local codebase, so generated assets reflect your existing components. Here is how I wire code-grounded generation into maintaining four sites' UI alone as an indie developer.
When a Long-Running Agent's Context Quietly Decays — Budgeting and Compaction
An agent that runs all night gets sloppier by morning. The cause is dilution from accumulated context. Here is how to treat context as a budget, measure its decay, and keep it healthy with compaction — with working code and field notes.
Three Days of Running Claude Fable 5 Side by Side with Opus 4.8 — Settling My Model Split Before June 15
I ran Claude Fable 5 alongside Opus 4.8 on the same iOS maintenance tasks during the free introduction window. Where the new model clearly pulls ahead, where it does not, and how I split the two before the June 15 billing change.
This Week at Claude Lab: Failures Without Error Messages, and the Guardrails That Catch Them
Editor's notes on five new posts: stale temp-file contamination, .bak files swept up by git add -A, PreToolUse screening hooks, and two Android dialog-flow redesigns.
Designing Claude Design's Design System So It Isn't Throwaway
One pretty deck out of Claude Design isn't an asset if you rebuild the design system from scratch every time. Here is how to turn extraction into a repeatable operation, so anyone can spin up the same-quality deck from just a script — designed from the trenches of indie development and art.
I Handed Claude Design One Old Slide, and It Rebuilt Our Brand Automatically
What ate my time when remaking company and recruiting decks was never the content — it was reproducing the brand by hand every single time. Here is how feeding Claude Design one existing slide let me extract a design system and spin up on-brand decks from just a script, told from the perspective of a long-time indie developer and artist.
A Month of Reading App Store Connect Sales and Trends Weekly with Claude in Chrome
Notes from one month of switching App Store Connect Sales and Trends from a monthly glance to a weekly review, with Claude in Chrome walking the dashboards and four apps worth of numbers showing me what I had been missing.
Semi-Automating Firebase SDK Upgrades with Claude on Xcode — Implementation Notes from Six Indie iOS Apps
How I used Claude on Xcode integrated into Xcode 16.4 to walk six iOS apps through Firebase SDK 12 to 13 upgrades and finish the CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager migration — with the actual prompts, regression tests, and the judgment calls along the way.