Handing Claude Design Mockups Straight to Claude Code: Folding the Design-to-Code Loop
The June 17 Claude Design update added codebase-aware generation. Here's how to make your tokens the single source of truth, hand mockups to Claude Code, and collapse the design-to-code round trip — with code you can copy.
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.
Claude Code Adds /cd — Carrying Your Warm Cache Across Repositories
Claude Code's new /cd moves a running session to another working directory without rebuilding the prompt cache. Here are the design calls and pitfalls when you sweep across several repositories in one sitting.
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.
Two Weeks of Splitting iOS Work Between Claude on Xcode and Claude Code
I ran Claude on Xcode, which lives in the Xcode sidebar, alongside Claude Code in the terminal across two weeks of real wallpaper-app work. Here is how I ended up dividing the tasks, and the simple rule I use to decide which one to open.
Claude Code vs. Claude in Chrome: Where I Draw the Line in Daily Ops
Running apps solo means constantly hopping between an editor and a browser, and that hopping quietly drains your focus. Here is how I split work between Claude Code and Claude in Chrome over a month, plus the rule I use when a task straddles both.
How I Handle 30+ App Store Reviews Monthly Using Claude — A Solo Developer's Workflow
Managing Beautiful HD Wallpapers and other apps with 50 million total downloads means dealing with reviews in 8 languages. Here's the Claude-powered workflow I built to handle 30–40 replies per session without triggering App Store throttling.
Parallel Development with Claude Code Across Multiple Repos — What Three Simultaneous Projects Taught Me
Claude Code gets messy with multiple repos. Here are the CLAUDE.md strategies, session habits, and cost tips from three months of real parallel development.
Claude Code + Ollama: Cutting API Costs with Local LLMs
Worried about Claude Code API costs? Learn how to combine Ollama (local LLM) with a litellm proxy to significantly reduce expenses, and discover a practical framework for deciding which tasks to run locally versus in the cloud.
5 Practical Ways to Work Around Claude Code's Context Window Limit
When Claude Code warns you that the context limit is approaching on large codebases or long sessions, here are five practical approaches — from /clear and /compact to CLAUDE.md and scope splitting.
7 Daily Decisions in Solo Development with Claude Code — A Year of Lessons
When I started using Claude Code for solo development, seven recurring decision points kept tripping me up. After a year of running, breaking, and fixing my workflow, here is the criteria I have settled on — including the reasoning behind each judgment call.
/clear vs /compact in Claude Code: Choosing the Right Reset for Long Sessions
When should you use /clear, and when should you reach for /compact in Claude Code? Three decision criteria from real long-session experience, with the pitfalls that hit me before I figured it out.