A Very ‘Just Build It’ Holiday

This week, Federico and John complete their tour of holiday projects with a look at the tools both of them built with the help of Claude Code, Codex, and other tools.

On AppStories+, John pushes Claude Code by building a Safari web extension that integrates with Notion.

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Links and Show Notes

Holiday Coding Projects Continued

Federico’s Projects:

HTML tools collection (12+ tools) inspired by Simon Willison’s approach

MacStories Markdown Preview tool

MarkdownFixer (Python in browser via Pyodide)

Custom MCP servers for: Feedbin, Readwise Reader, YouTube Transcript, and Raindrop

Home automation tools: NAS Control, Roon Visualizer, Custom TV Remote (LG webOS + Philips Hue Sync Box)

Notion tools: DailyNote Append, DailyNote Viewer, Notion Clippings web app, YouTube Watch Queue

Liquid Glass CSS design guide for web apps

Using Claude Code vs OpenAI Codex comparison

Remote coding workflow with Termius and Pushover notifications

John’s Projects:

MacStories Common (shared code library)

Podcast production tools (loudness matching, transcription improvements)

Obsidian plugins for sending to Matter and Readwise Reader

Article Highlights tool

Notion OAuth integration

Reviving Blink app (Objective C to Swift/SwiftUI conversion)

Other Tools and Services Mentioned

GitHub

Cloudflare Workers

Tailscale

Secure Shellfish

FFmpeg

Wispr Flow