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Notes from May 2026: Running a Parallel StoreKit 2 Migration Across Four iOS Wallpaper Apps with Claude Code
Operational notes from running a four-app iOS StoreKit 2 migration in parallel with Claude Code on a single Mac mini M5, captured during May 2026.
Skill, Subagents, and Rules in Claude Code: A One-Hour Implementation Loop That Fits a Solo Operator
Misaki Ito at SonicGarden wrote about wiring Claude Code's Skill, Subagents, and Rules to close a week's worth of low-priority work in one meeting. Here is how I adapted that pattern as a solo developer running a 50M-download app business.
Three Months of Letting Claude Code Handle the Monthly Content Refresh for My Four Wallpaper Apps
Starting in February 2026 I began handing off the monthly content refresh of my wallpaper apps — Beautiful HD Wallpapers and three sibling titles — to Claude Code. After three months I want to share what kinds of judgement I felt comfortable delegating, and where I deliberately kept my own hands on the work.
Why Claude Code Breaks Your MDX Frontmatter With YAML Errors (and How to Fix It)
If you have ever let Claude Code mass-produce MDX articles, sooner or later your build dies with a cryptic YAML error. Nested double quotes, stray colons, comma-joined tag entries — here is what is actually happening and the five patterns I trust in production.
Six Weeks Running a Claude Code Hooks + SwiftLint Quality Gate on My Indie iOS Apps
A six-week field report on wiring SwiftLint into Claude Code's PostToolUse hook to keep my indie iOS codebases consistent. Motivation, implementation, three adjustments that mattered, and the rough edges I hit along the way.
Claude Code Hook `command timed out`: Timeout Settings and Split-Execution Patterns That Actually Work
Fix Claude Code's `command timed out` hook failure without just bumping the timeout. Includes practical split-execution, detached background jobs, and a settings.json layout that keeps your session fast.
Claude Code Says 'All Tests Pass' but CI Goes Red — Designing Around Exit Code Pitfalls
Locally, Claude Code reports 'all tests pass.' You push it, and GitHub Actions turns red within minutes. The root cause is usually not Claude Code itself but how the shell and the test runner interpret exit codes. Here is a practical, experience-backed walkthrough.
Pruning Custom Subagents in Claude Code: After Six Months, Five Became Two
I built five custom subagents in Claude Code, ran them across six sites for six months, and ended up keeping only two. Here are the notes I took along the way — what worked, what didn't, and how I learned to write subagent descriptions that actually get called.
Why Claude Code's WebFetch Returns 403 or Empty Pages — and How to Fix It
When Claude Code's WebFetch returns a 403, or a 200 OK with the body mysteriously empty, there are really only four root causes worth checking. This walkthrough breaks them down — Cloudflare bot protection, client-side rendering, the allowed-domains gate, and stale caches — with the practical responses I use in production.
Running Apple Privacy Manifest as an Indie Developer — Catching Dependency Drift with Claude Code
Apple Privacy Manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy) is a quietly painful area for indie iOS developers. Drawing on twelve years of running iOS apps with over 50 million combined downloads, this article walks through how I use Claude Code to detect drift, respond to rejections, and bake the whole flow into CI.
Why Your `cd` and `export` Vanish Between Claude Code Bash Calls
Claude Code's Bash tool runs each call in a fresh shell, so cd and export never persist. Here's the symptom, the cause, and five practical patterns I use across my Dolice Labs pipelines.
Automated Play Store Staged Rollout Monitoring with Claude Code — Lessons from 50+ Crashes in v2.0.0
A hands-on record of building a Claude Code-powered monitoring system for Android staged rollouts (5%→100%). Covers crash-free rate thresholds, Wilson confidence intervals, and automatic Go/No-Go decisions — based on real experience shipping Beautiful HD Wallpapers to 50M+ users.