📁 Categories: Troubleshooting & Problem Solving

How to Resume Claude Code After Closing PowerShell or Losing Your Session

A guide to resuming Claude Code from a previous session after you close PowerShell, lose your terminal window, or restart your PC. Covers when to use claude --resume versus claude --continue, what to check when the session you want does not appear, and how to name sessions to keep longer projects manageable.

ChatGPT Itself Is Smart—So Why Do Things Go Off Track When I Use Work or Codex? The Weakness I've Noticed in Tool Integration

ChatGPT's own writing and conversation quality has gotten noticeably better, but handing tasks off to Work for bulk processing or switching to Codex often loses the fine-grained context built up over a long chat. From a 100-article translation job where Work quietly dropped notes and added new sections, to Codex misreading assumptions, to ChatGPT repeatedly checking a cached, outdated version of my own website—here's what I actually ran into with ChatGPT's tool integration, and how I'm working around it.

Claude Code Errors: A Reverse Lookup from Symptom to Cause

When you hit an error while using Claude Code, digging into the cause from scratch every time is a hassle. What helps is a reverse-lookup approach: start from the "symptom" and narrow down the likely ...

Claude Code Freezing or Slowing Down? 3 Causes to Check by Symptom

Sometimes Claude Code suddenly stops responding, or its output starts feeling "sloppier" than before. There's rarely a single cause — but working through three angles: context management, thinking-bud...

Gemini API Error Codes: A Systematic Fix for 429, 401, and 400

When building with the Gemini API, you will run into all kinds of error codes sooner or later. Rather than retrying blindly without knowing the cause, understanding what each status code means makes i...