The following is a list of completed projects
The following is a list of completed projects
☑️ Experiment with Craft APIs and MCP endpoint — Completed Spring 2026
When Craft began offering an API and support for MCP, I started experimenting with both through Apple Shortcuts. What I didn’t expect was the real deal breaker: building and maintaining shortcuts was painful across all Apple platforms. I found a way forward when I started exploring Claude AI and Claude Code, and experimenting with Craft’s API and MCP became one of my first projects with Claude AI.
☑️ Find an alternative to Mailbrew — Abandoned Spring 2026
Here is a spoiler: I couldn’t find a viable alternative to Mailbrew. It’s such a unique service. Sadly, it has been stagnant since it was acquired a few years ago. I tried using Inoreader email digests but it didn’t work as expected and was limited without paying for an add-on. I decided to abandoned this project.
☑️ Learn to use n8n to build new kind of automated workflows— Completed Spring 2026
By learning to use the n8n automation platform, I not only replaced the outdated IFTTT service, but also created a whole new set of automation workflows that I never could have imagined building with IFTTT. It feels like one of those pivotal moments I’m genuinely glad I embraced.
☑️ Document Apple's Liquid Glass UX/UI Failures— Completed in Fall 2025
I wanted to document fro the start the story and evolution of Apple’s Liquid Glass. Using a Craft’s shared document, I put together something that I think will endure time. Each beta was documented, each release and tweak to Liquid Glass also documented. You’ll find a lot of “before & after” screenshots of apps that adopted Liquid Glass, painfully or with ease. You can find the project right here.
☑️ Learn to use Realmac Software Elements web design app — Completed in Fall 2025
It’s been a long time since I wanted to have a personalized website exposing who I am. For quite some time, I was depending on Craft Docs to build a landing page and Linktr.ee web service but I wasn’t really satisfied with the look and feel of the websites. When I heard about Realmac Software Elements, I knew this was the right occasion to rebuild something new while learning to use a serious website building app. It took a few months to build as I was following beta releases of Elements. This fall, the project was completed.
☑️ Moving out of HEY Mail to Fastmail — Completed in early 2025
Because of conflicting values with one of the founder of HEY Mail (often referred to as “DHH”), I decide to move away from HEY Mail. It was a rather big undertaking but it was well worth it. I ended up using a similar service called “Fastmail”. I couldn’t be happier. The project has been documented in this blog post.
☑️ Migrate all my passwords from 1Password to Apple Passwords — Completed late 2024
Because all my Apple devices could run the latest version of their respective operating system, I decided to to drop 1Password and move to Apple’s password management solution, called “Passwords”. I published a blog post about this.
☑️ Moving Out of Smugmug to Glass — Started in 2022 and completed in 2024
Migrate my best content from my Smugmug account to my Glass account, and Pixelfed account. I want to focus on more open photo-sharing services and those two services provide that.
☑️ Moving Out of Adobe Photography — Completed in 2024
I left Adobe behind because I felt I was paying too much for something that I didn’t take advantage of.
☑️ Restructuring My Reading Workflow Around Inoreader - Completed in May 2023
My reading workflow has been in need for a complete rework. I’ve been thinking about it for close to a year now. I want to put an end to this and I think I have found my way. The project goal is to let me decide, once and for all, the right tool to cover 90% of my reading habits. As I shared in this article, Inoreader is central to my reading workflow.
☑️ Moving Out of WordPress to Ghost — Completed in 2023
This project was about migrating the published content of my numericcitizen.me blog to a lighter, easier-to-maintain hosting solution. Ghost has been selected for this purpose as I explained here.
☑️ Building an Apple Analytics Widget for Plausible— Completed in 2023
This is the most recent addition to my 2023 projects list. It came up on a Saturday morning while drinking my coffee. Using tools like Apple’s Shortcuts and Plausible’s APIs, I will build widgets to display visitors analytics on my iPhone and iPad home screen, to replace an old app I used to have on my iPhone which was using Google Analytics at that time. As explained in this article, the project turned an unexpected turn and proved to me quite successful.
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