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.
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.
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.
Six Months Until CocoaPods Shutdown — Migrating Beautiful HD Wallpapers to Firebase SPM with Claude Code
Firebase Apple SDK is dropping CocoaPods in October 2026. Here's how I migrated Beautiful HD Wallpapers — one of four iOS apps I run as an indie developer — to Swift Package Manager, and where Claude Code made the difference.
Eliminating SwiftUI Animation Guesswork with Claude Code — Prompt Patterns from a 50M Download Wallpaper App
How to use Claude Code for SwiftUI animation work — practical prompt patterns and Before/After code examples from the development of Beautiful HD Wallpapers, a 50M+ download app.
Claude Code MCP Server Won't Start — How to Fix "spawn npx ENOENT" and PATH Issues
You configured an MCP server in Claude Code's settings.json, but it never starts — just "spawn npx ENOENT" or "spawn uvx ENOENT" errors. The culprit is a PATH mismatch between your shell and Claude Code's spawning environment. Here's how to diagnose and fix it.
Wiring Claude Code from Crash Reports to a Fix Commit — A Personal Developer's Post-Release Operations Playbook
A working pipeline for personal developers to triage Crashlytics and Sentry reports with Claude Code, drawn from the routine I still run on my own apps every morning.
Catching Template Phrases Before They Ship: grep Guards in Claude Code SKILL.md
Even with detailed prompt instructions, generating articles every day eventually lets template phrases slip through. I added grep-based guards to the final step of my Claude Code SKILL.md so that violations block the push and force the model to rewrite. Here's what changed after one week.
Multi-Agent Skill Architecture with gh skill — Versioning, CI/CD, and Agent-Specific Optimization
A production-grade approach to managing SKILL.md across teams using gh skill. Covers repository structure, semantic versioning, GitHub Actions automation, agent-specific optimization, and monorepo patterns.
react-native-permissions vs Expo Permissions API — Claude Code
Should you use react-native-permissions or the Expo permissions API? This guide clarifies the decision criteria and shows practical iOS/Android implementation patterns using Claude Code, including common pitfalls and Privacy Manifest requirements.
How gh skill Lets You Share SKILL.md Across Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, and 30+ AI Agents
The gh skill GitHub CLI extension lets you publish and install SKILL.md definitions across Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and 30+ AI agents — write once, deploy everywhere.