The Shop's skill library felt different after I shipped two batches of skills in one week. Looking at the ten skills together, I realized why: the family had fi
- What My Skill Library Was Missing
- Hooks > Hope
Skills in the Shop exist to keep writes consistent. /shop-log creates Learning Log entries with the right status and tags. /shop-update touches project Next Ste
- The Skill Is the Application
The reading-miner doesn't have application code. Not in the traditional sense.
- Two Surfaces, Two Jobs
I added Obsidian to the Shop last week. Not because Notion wasn't working. It's the backbone of everything I've built so far. Five databases, six skills reading
- Your Vault Writes Its Own Links
Obsidian's linking model assumes you remember what you wrote. You create a note, think about what relates to it, and type out the [[wikilinks]] manually. That w
- I've Built This Before
I noticed something last week that I should have noticed sooner. The orchestration system I'm building in the Shop has the same shape as work I did almost two y
- Your Session Is Not Your State
I hit the context window ceiling during a planning session. Not dramatically. The conversation just got long. Hours of Notion fetches, web research, past chat l
- Documentation Audits Have Two Layers
I just rewrote three reference pages to reflect a new model for how my tools work together. Continuous state maintenance instead of session rituals. Code as the
- Less Me in the Middle
In I Am the Orchestration Layer, I laid out how my workflow actually works: Chat thinks, Code builds, I route between them. It was working. I also left three op
- Structure Is the Skill
With Channels working, the Listing Advisor needed to actually know something about listings. I'd already mapped out what good listing advice looks like from exp
- First Look at Claude Code Channels
I'd just wrapped up the blog and was looking at what to build next. I'm into collectibles — mostly Magic: The Gathering cards, but also toys, novelty stuff, wha
- Claude as a Design Studio
I'm not a designer. I've used Figma, but mostly for CX flow prototyping in FigJam, not for visual design. I don't think in grids and spacing tokens. So when it
- I Am the Orchestration Layer (For Now)
There's a version of working with AI tools where everything talks to everything. Agents coordinate through some automated pipeline, context flows between tools
- One Prompt, One Project
The first skill I built for the Shop was a project scaffolding recipe. It handles the boring stuff: prompts for a name and description, creates the folder struc
- Ship it Straight to Prod
I built this blog and shipped it straight to production. No staging environment, no preview deploys, no PR review step. Notion to GitHub to Vercel, live on the
- Treating My Side Projects Like a Product
Side projects don't die because you run out of ideas. They die because you sit down on a Tuesday night, stare at the screen, and can't remember where you left o
- Hello World - Jay's Foundry is Live
First post. The blog exists.