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Pairing Gemini API with Apple FoundationModels (iOS 26): An On-Device-First Hybrid Routing Notebook
Running iOS 26 FoundationModels alongside Gemini API as a hybrid stack for a wallpaper app's poem-from-image feature: routing decisions, full Swift code, and one week of latency and cost numbers.
Designing a Semantic Cache for the Gemini API — Embedding-based Answer Caching That Actually Pays for Itself
A practical design for a semantic cache that sits in front of the Gemini API. Combines text-embedding-004, cosine similarity thresholds, versioned cache keys, and TTL design to balance hit rate and answer quality, with Python and Cloudflare Vectorize code that runs in production.
When gemini-2.5-flash-image Ignores Your Reference Image — Diagnosing Why Nano Banana Returns a Totally Different Picture
A field-tested triage order for the situations where gemini-2.5-flash-image (Nano Banana) silently ignores your reference image, swaps the subject, or refuses to honor your edit instructions. Covers parts ordering, response_modalities, image size, and chat-session pitfalls with runnable code.
Why I Stopped Organizing Gmail and Let Gemini Recover My Memory Instead
Running six domains as an indie developer means my Gmail accounts are buried under tens of thousands of unfiled messages. Here is how I switched from asking Gemini to find emails to asking it to answer questions, with the traps I hit along the way.
Implementation Notes: Building a Personal Blog Operations Dashboard with Streamlit and the Gemini API
Notes from building a single-pane operations dashboard that unifies Google Search Console and GA4 data with Gemini 2.5 Flash-powered quality scoring, after burning out on switching between 12 browser tabs across six sites every morning. Includes the full Streamlit implementation and weekly low-quality detection job.
Running In-App Help Translation on Gemini 2.5 Flash for Three Months — An Indie Developer's Notes
After three months running my iOS and Android in-app help through a Gemini 2.5 Flash translation pipeline, here are the operational notes — when to fall back to Pro, how glossaries help, and the small lift it added to AdMob revenue.
Automating App Localization QA with the Gemini API: A Structured-Output Pipeline That Catches Translation Drift Early
Lessons from running 14-language localization across a 50M-download personal app portfolio, distilled into a production-ready Gemini 2.5 Pro structured-output evaluation pipeline that catches translation drift before users do.
Apple Vision Framework × Gemini API: Hybrid Image Recognition — Cutting Wallpaper App Cloud Inference Costs by 70%
How I built an on-device prefilter with Apple Vision Framework to cut Gemini Vision API calls by more than half in my iOS wallpaper app. Real cost, accuracy, and latency numbers, with the gotchas an indie developer hits along the way.
Running Streamlit + Gemini as a Production BI Dashboard — Auth, Cost, Caching, Rate Limits, Observability
A design memo for promoting a Streamlit + Gemini data analysis app into a real multi-user internal BI dashboard — authentication, cost optimization, result caching, per-user rate limits, and observability, all from production experience.
The Day @Canva Moved In With Gemini — A One-Week Field Note on Designing Through Conversation via the MCP Connector
Canva is now formally integrated with Google Gemini, and you can invoke `@Canva` from inside the Gemini app to generate, edit, and resize for social platforms in a single chat. Writing as the indie creator behind dolice.design, I share a week of operating notes on Brand Kit prompting and the new Magic Layers feature.
Two Weeks of Classifying Half a Year of App Store Reviews with Gemini File API
I ran half a year of App Store Connect reviews through the Gemini File API for two weeks straight, asking it to classify and summarize them. Here is what worked, where Batch Mode fit better, and which sharp edges took me a few days to round off.
Running NotebookLM and Gemini Deep Research in Parallel for a Firebase SPM Migration: Two Weeks of Notes
Notes from two weeks of running NotebookLM and Gemini Deep Research side by side, while researching the CocoaPods-to-SPM migration of an iOS wallpaper app portfolio with 50M+ cumulative downloads.