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Daily Work Log - 2026-05-22

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Daily Work Log: 2026-05-22

📋 Session Overview

This session resolved environment mismatches for VS Code extension parity, restored secure dbt service account authentication, resolved BigQuery Storage API IAM compilation permissions, and established a token-cost optimization strategy.

🚀 Key Accomplishments

1. IDE Extensions Parity (Nix Synchronization)

  • Solved a VS Code extensions desync by clearing the empty local extensions folder ~/.antigravity-ide/extensions.
  • Added a declarative out-of-store Nix symlink to ~/.antigravity-ide-server/extensions in home.nix.
  • Ran home-manager switch to cleanly synchronize 16 essential extensions (including Google Cloud Code and Gemini Code Assist) across local and remote desktop environments.

2. dbt Service Account & BigQuery IAM Resolution

  • dbt SA Integration: Restored GCP service account-based authentication for the dogwizard dbt project. Generated a fresh JSON key for dbt-dev-box@thedogwizard-kpi-dashboards.iam.gserviceaccount.com and saved it to the standard path ~/projects/03_clients/dogwizard/dbt-dev-box-key.json.
  • Re-mapped ~/.dbt/profiles.yml to target the key file via method: service-account.
  • BigQuery Storage API & IAM Fix: Resolved compilation failures on mrt_google_search_query_daily, mrt_google_business_location_insight, and mrt_google_ads_stats_by_account_campaign_date by granting the roles/bigquery.readSessionUser role to the service account on the thedogwizard-kpi-dashboards project. Verified 100% successful compilation of all 33 models and 1 seed in 2.6 seconds.

3. Billing Quota & Cost Control Management

  • Restored default gcloud CLI active configurations (setting kevin@waycupcreative.com and the waycup-admin-hub billing quota project) to ensure parity and prevent future quota-trip errors.
  • Developed a strategy to tackle rising token and API call costs. Documented plans on context-size reduction, more efficient local tools, and setting up dedicated thin-client agent gates.

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