Build things. Show the work. Stay curious.https://jaysfoundry.com/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/claude-as-a-design-studio/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 itFri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/documentation-audits-have-two-layers/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 theWed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/first-look-at-claude-code-channels/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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, whaSat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/hello-world-jays-foundry-is-live/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/hello-world-jays-foundry-is-live/First post. The blog exists.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/hooks-hope/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 SteWed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/i-am-the-orchestration-layer-for-now/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 toolsThu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/ive-built-this-before/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/ive-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 yThu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/less-me-in-the-middle/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 opMon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/one-prompt-one-project/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 strucWed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/ship-it-straight-to-prod/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 theWed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/structure-is-the-skill/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 expSun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/the-skill-is-the-application/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/the-skill-is-the-application/The reading-miner doesn't have application code. Not in the traditional sense.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/treating-my-side-projects-like-a-product/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 oTue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/two-surfaces-two-jobs/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 readingTue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/what-my-skill-library-was-missing/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/what-my-skill-library-was-missing/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 fiFri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/your-session-is-not-your-state/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 lFri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jaysfoundry.com/blog/your-vault-writes-its-own-links/https://jaysfoundry.com/blog/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 wSat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT