https://pocketgrove.com/blog/ Notes on building and running a small mobile app studio. en-GB Thu, 03 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/ Set up an anniversary countdown widget on iPhone: add it to your home and lock screen so the day count is always in view. 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/ A complete OLLAMA_HOST setup guide: bind Ollama to your network, open the firewall, verify port 11434, and connect from Android or iPhone. 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