Week 34 Summary (Aug 16 - Aug 22, 2026)

A week with one clear centre of gravity: the On Integrating Quick Reads Into My Digital Ecosystem piece, picked up on five consecutive mornings — continued, diagrammed, re-diagrammed, then restarted from scratch on Thursday. Around it, Claude AI shifted from assistant to workbench: documenting MCP endpoint dependencies, connecting Neon Postgres, refreshing n8n workflow docs, and by week’s end turning bank statements into a financial dashboard for retirement planning. Reading was front-loaded into early mornings and skewed toward AI commentary and Apple’s App Store fight, with a detour into Craft Agents. Infrastructure got quiet attention too — an n8n upgrade to 2.35.4, and a failed Micro.blog highlight deletion that turned into a support ticket. Momentum tapered after Wednesday: Friday came down to a single entry, and Saturday was blank.