https://pocketgrove.com/blog/ Notes on building and running a small mobile app studio. en-GB Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/live-captions-on-iphone/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/live-captions-on-iphone/ Try Apple's built-in Live Captions first, understand their accuracy limits, and compare HearBee for private nearby-speech captions and saved history. Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/after-stopping-coding-agent/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/after-stopping-coding-agent/ Recover after stopping a coding agent: inspect completed writes, handle unknown outcomes, check undo coverage, and decide when a retry is safe. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/football-career-mode-on-iphone/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/football-career-mode-on-iphone/ How a player-focused football career mode works on iPhone: training, simulated match decisions, transfers, seasons, and the four-season free start. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/jev-and-local-ai-decisions/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/jev-and-local-ai-decisions/ A look at Jev's hosted decision API, open-source examples, and a hands-on local model demo in your browser. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/tool-contracts-prevent-agent-retries/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/tool-contracts-prevent-agent-retries/ Design AI agent tool schemas with visible limits, useful errors, and server validation. A practical MCP and function-calling contract checklist. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/verify-exact-code-agent-will-ship/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/verify-exact-code-agent-will-ship/ Connect your coding agent's checks to the exact source, build artifact, and deployment target with a practical verification receipt. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/basketball-sim-vs-arcade-basketball-which-is-for-you/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/basketball-sim-vs-arcade-basketball-which-is-for-you/ Compare arcade basketball, realistic on-court sims, and career simulators by controls, session length, progression, and play style. Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-career-mode-games-hook-us-progression-loop/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-career-mode-games-hook-us-progression-loop/ A research-grounded guide to career mode progression: competence, choice, feedback, long-term goals, and what Hoop Quest actually does. Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/hoop-quest-beginners-guide-rookie-to-mvp/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/hoop-quest-beginners-guide-rookie-to-mvp/ A Hoop Quest starter strategy guide: build your player, make smart age-by-age choices, and grow from rookie to MVP legend. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/toddler-proof-iphone-settings/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/toddler-proof-iphone-settings/ Toddler-proof your iPhone with 7 essential settings, from Guided Access to purchase locks, that stop little fingers from causing expensive chaos. Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/fishing-moon-phase-calendar/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/fishing-moon-phase-calendar/ A practical fishing moon phase calendar guide: how new, full, and quarter moons affect the bite and how to plan trips around lunar cycles. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/wedding-anniversary-milestones-names-meanings-gifts/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/wedding-anniversary-milestones-names-meanings-gifts/ Traditional wedding anniversary names by year — paper, silver, gold and more — with meanings and gift ideas for each milestone. Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/50-dates-worth-tracking-beyond-birthdays-anniversaries/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/50-dates-worth-tracking-beyond-birthdays-anniversaries/ 50 meaningful dates worth tracking beyond birthdays and anniversaries — first dates, adoption days, sobriety milestones, and more. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/anniversary-countdown-widget-iphone-setup-guide/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/anniversary-countdown-widget-iphone-setup-guide/ Add an anniversary countdown to your iPhone Home Screen or Lock Screen. Follow the widget setup steps and choose which date to display. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/best-fishing-times-by-season/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/best-fishing-times-by-season/ Best fishing times by season: how spring, summer, fall, and winter change the bite and the daily hours to target all year long. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-to-build-huge-agent-knowledge-bases-without-huge-context-windows/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-to-build-huge-agent-knowledge-bases-without-huge-context-windows/ Use progressive disclosure, scoped Skills, and context measurements to give coding agents depth without loading every rule up front. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/stop-putting-everything-in-claude-md/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/stop-putting-everything-in-claude-md/ A practical guide to keeping CLAUDE.md small: put invariants in the root, move procedures into Skills, and keep context useful. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/your-claude-md-needs-tests-too/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/your-claude-md-needs-tests-too/ Treat CLAUDE.md, Skills, and agent policies as software: version them, test real tasks, and check robustness before rollout. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/best-small-llms-to-run-on-home-mac-with-ollama/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/best-small-llms-to-run-on-home-mac-with-ollama/ A practical shortlist of small Ollama models for a home Mac, with current model tags, download sizes, honest memory caveats, and a repeatable way to choose. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-many-days-have-we-been-together/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-many-days-have-we-been-together/ Calculate how many days you have been together, choose Day 0 or Day 1, and keep 100-day and yearly milestones from slipping past. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-to-learn-phrasal-verbs-without-a-giant-list/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-to-learn-phrasal-verbs-without-a-giant-list/ Use frequency, retrieval, real examples, listening and spaced reviews to make common English phrasal verbs easier to recognise and recall. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/prime-minister-simulator-political-survival-game/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/prime-minister-simulator-political-survival-game/ How a political survival game turns Cabinet loyalty, public opinion, the press and Parliament into decisions where there is rarely a safe answer. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/sign-a-pdf-on-iphone-without-a-printer/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/sign-a-pdf-on-iphone-without-a-printer/ Scan, sign and return a document from your phone — and why print-sign-scan was never adding the security people assume it did. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/tonights-moon-phase-and-what-it-means/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/tonights-moon-phase-and-what-it-means/ The eight phases, why moonrise shifts by about 50 minutes a day, and how to use the phase to plan photography or a dark-sky night. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/ollama-setup-guide-serving-models-on-local-network/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/ollama-setup-guide-serving-models-on-local-network/ Connect to Ollama from another device on your Wi-Fi. Set OLLAMA_HOST, check port 11434 and fix connection problems on Mac, Windows or Linux. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/run-llm-locally-use-from-phone/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/run-llm-locally-use-from-phone/ Run an LLM locally on your own hardware and reach it from Android or iPhone. A privacy- and cost-focused guide to self-hosted AI with Ollama. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/why-our-apps-keep-your-data-on-your-device/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/why-our-apps-keep-your-data-on-your-device/ Most of our apps have no servers, no accounts and no copy of your data. That's an engineering decision as much as a privacy one. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/passport-photo-rules-at-home/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/passport-photo-rules-at-home/ Sizes, background, expression and lighting for passport and visa photos — and the handful of mistakes that get them rejected. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-we-maintain-53-ios-apps/ https://pocketgrove.com/blog/how-we-maintain-53-ios-apps/ Fifty-three apps, one shared Swift package. How a small studio keeps a large catalogue alive without a large team. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT