One project dominated the week: Writing in public — My experience upgrading from iPhone 15 Pro Max to iPhone 18 Pro Max was touched every single day, Sunday through Saturday — moving from research and drafting to an intro rewrite, a task list, references to external 18 Pro reviews, an embedded video review, and finally first-hand observations once the device actually arrived on Friday night.

The second thread was infrastructure. whois.numericcitizen.me got a weekend to-do list, a typo pass, and a partly successful footer change that hit MCP limitations, while Elements 3.0 and its MCP setup in Claude Desktop went through a first set of tests.

Smaller maintenance ran underneath: confirming the Ghost and Micro.blog weekly sync is picking up new posts, and a Saturday attempt at an n8n workflow execution issue. Reading and watching were sparse, and both fed the same interests — Apple news on Sunday, UniFi Express 7 meshing videos on Wednesday.

The shape of the week: sustained single-project momentum, bookended by anticipation on Sunday and the phone in hand by Friday.

A week of two distinct halves. It opened in full builder mode: a long-sought MCP for searching your own publications finally came together on Sunday, followed by n8n workflows that sync both the Ghost and Micro.blog archives into a Neon database so Claude Desktop can query them directly. Monday kept the momentum — an n8n upgrade, an MCP link to the official n8n docs, a delete feature shipped to Trails, and a new photo series, Montreal by night. From Wednesday onward, Apple took over: launch-day reading, leak-driven revisions to the upgrade plans, and the launch of a first writing-in-public project on the iPhone 15 Pro Max to 18 Pro Max transition, announced across Slack, Hacker News and the blog. The back half carried some weight too — a Pixelfed reflection on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 — and the week closed with **the Apple Watch Series 8 **finally landing on the upgrade list.

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.

A week bookended by writing. It opened with On Integrating Quick Reads Into My Digital Ecosystem going out the door on Sunday, and closed with three consecutive mornings on “I’m proud of my failures” article as a creator alongside the next issue of the ephemeral scrapbook newsletter. Underneath it all was a sustained hunt for better reading sources — chasing an RSS feed on understandingwar.org, adopting Bubbles.town, and opening a trial of Standard Reader. AI experiments ran in parallel almost daily: Whisper transcription on the M4 Mac mini, scheduled tasks in the Claude cloud, Claude in gateway mode against Ollama, and an attempt to make Ghost CMS content searchable through Claude — most of them reaching a verdict rather than staying open. Maintenance took a real share of the week too, with n8n instability, a manual MCP config merge, and a refreshed ecosystem diagram, while a consistent editorial stance on engagement-driven platforms surfaced twice in conversation.

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.

This is my first week summary. It is built automatically with AI by consuming my manually-written notes Craft Daily notes where I document most of my activities. Then, I do some touch ups before publishing here.

A week centered on the Quick Reads read-later service, which threaded through nearly every day — from drafting a review and appreciation piece to extracting text highlights, weighing data portability, and wiring a Quick Reads section into the personal Dashboard. Automation was the second big theme: the newly discovered Brrr push-notification app went from curiosity on Tuesday to being integrated into four n8n workflows by Saturday, while Claude Code helped tidy the bookmarking app’s documentation and fix its code. Two blog posts shipped — ‘The digital toxicity’ on the return to the web for app development, and ‘It’s fun to go back’ reflecting on past writing. Reading and watching leaned heavily on AI and industry shifts, spanning antirez on lab risks, the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident timeline, the end of Google Search, and self-hosting LLMs to control token costs. The week opened with continued research for an upcoming iPhone review, focused on the camera control button.

If it’s a very short thought, it goes here. If it’s a great link, I share it there, too. Any in-the-moment thing is here, too. When I explain why I do this and how I do that, it’s right here. Long-form articles or a new edition of my newsletter, well, that’s over there. Other written tidbits, not too short, not too long, well, it goes here, of course. I wish I could make this post stick to the main page.