Three decisions that keep your Places API bill at effectively nothing for small apps — session tokens, Basic tier fields, and caching in your own database.

Hard refresh logs you out. The session is in localStorage. The server never sees it. Here's the fix and why it happens.

I asked Claude to help me plan a restaurant tracker app. It told me to just use Beli. That answer led somewhere more interesting than the original idea.

Every file Claude reads, every tool result, every message — it all goes somewhere. Here's what that means and how to stay in control of it.

The login returned 200. The user metadata was correct. The session existed. But the app didn't navigate. Four layers of debugging to find a missing directory.

Our first database reset script failed on foreign key constraints. Here's how we iterated to a dry-run-first, FK-aware, multi-tenant-safe reset — and how we could have got it right from the start.

We deleted an AsyncStorage directory to fix a stale session. It fixed the stale session. It also broke every future login. Here's why deleting the container is not the same as clearing the contents.

Keychain auto-fill hijacking forms, AsyncStorage surviving app rebuilds, and other iOS simulator behaviors that silently break React Native development.

How a missing CSV column and a NULL department value made an entire product catalog invisible — and the validation step that would have caught it in seconds.

Connecting a Google Search Console MCP server to Claude Code and discovering real indexing issues in minutes.

Using the GTM API to create GA4 event tracking — triggers, tags, and publishing — without touching the GTM UI.

Splitting a 300-line CLAUDE.md into lean core docs and on-demand workflow files for better Claude Code automation.

A tiered upgrade strategy for React, Next.js, and Tailwind using Claude Code and GitHub CLI automation.

Turning coding sessions into published blog posts with a repeatable Claude Code workflow.