Week 36 Summary (Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2026)

A week built around one big unresolved question — whether Birchfeed could replace Inoreader and become the feed backbone for the RSS Flow web app. That thread ran Sunday through Tuesday, moving from curiosity to a Claude Code exploration to a firm decision on Tuesday night to keep the existing feed management. Publishing stayed steady around it: four blog posts went out (Apple’s inflection point under John Ternus, CleanShot 5, the August digest, and anticipation for the September 9th iPhone event). Tool testing was the other constant — two Craft betas, the CleanShot 5 upgrade and its video recording, Claude Design, and Claude AI scheduled tasks all got a turn. The back half of the week tapered into lighter housekeeping and photo sharing on Moments, the photo-journaling app discovered on day one and used three times before the week was out.