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The Day @Canva Moved In With Gemini — A One-Week Field Note on Designing Through Conversation via the MCP Connector
A week of running Gemini's @Canva connector in production. Includes the prompt builder that stops Brand Kit references from going missing, a work-log script that replaces 'it feels faster' with medians, and a colour-difference audit that moves the weekly brand check off human eyes.
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.
SwiftData × Gemini API Offline Response Cache — Persisting and Reusing AI Responses on iOS
Design a SwiftData-backed cache layer for Gemini API responses so your iOS app keeps working in airplane mode and on flaky networks. Covers @Model schema, invalidation strategy, store-size discipline, and migration — all from production iOS experience.
Taming Gemini API Tail Latency with Request Hedging: A p99 Design Notebook
A four-month operational journal of taming Gemini API tail latency with hedged requests across a production indie app portfolio. Includes measured p50/p95/p99 numbers, a working Swift and TypeScript implementation, and the cost-control parameters that kept monthly billing growth under 18%.
Why Your Gemini File API Uploads Vanish After 48 Hours — and How to Code Around It
Gemini File API resources are auto-deleted 48 hours after upload. Here is how to recognize the failure, why it happens, and concrete patterns for re-uploading, falling back to inline data, and managing expiration safely.
Gemini API × Sentry: A Production Pipeline for LLM Error Tracking and Prompt Failure Observability
Pair Sentry's error tracking with Gemini-specific failure modes so you can catch safety filter blocks, recitation rejections, empty completions, and quiet latency drift in production.
When Gemini API Streaming Cuts Off Mid-Response in Production: The Diagnosis Order I Run
How I diagnose mid-response cutoffs in Gemini API streaming - the order I check network, SDK, and server-side suspects, with real cases from indie production.
Designing Around the Gemini 2.0 Flash Deprecation Without Letting It Disrupt Indie Development: My May 2026 Risk-Distribution Notes
How I rebuilt my indie-development jobs to absorb the Gemini 2.0 Flash deprecation: a provider abstraction, a nightly old-vs-new diff batch, fallback-rate instrumentation, real cost numbers, and an August follow-up on what the migration actually cost.
Why Your Gemini API Structured Output Keeps Failing Validation — and How to Stabilize It
A field guide to the three layers where Gemini API structured output breaks — server-side schema rejection, silent empty responses, and client-side parsing — with practical fixes from an indie developer's production AdMob reporting pipeline.
Google AI Pro Now Includes YouTube Premium Lite: A Pricing Read From a Solo Developer
Google has bundled YouTube Premium Lite (¥780/month) into Google AI Pro (from ¥2,900/month). Here is how the new structure reads against my actual usage as a solo developer with 50M+ downloads, including who actually benefits.
LM Studio 'Failed to Load Model' for Gemma 4 MLX — A 4-Bucket Diagnostic for Apple Silicon
When LM Studio refuses to load mlx-community/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-4bit with a red 'Failed to load model' dialog, the cause is almost always one of four buckets. Here's how to triage them on an Apple Silicon Mac in under thirty minutes.