{ "site": { "name": "Jay Shah", "url": "https://jshah.dev", "description": "A personal blog. Notes on engineering, work, travel, and whatever I'm thinking through as I go." }, "count": 15, "posts": [ { "title": "Everyone Should Have a Personal AI Wiki", "url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/2026/08/31/everyone-should-have-a-personal-ai-wiki/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/2026/08/31/everyone-should-have-a-personal-ai-wiki/index.md", "date": "2026-08-31T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "AI", "tags": [ "AI", "Note-taking", "Learning", "Tools", "Workflow" ], "description": "A personal wiki that an AI compiles and maintains, built on Karpathy's pattern, and how to set one up yourself." }, { "title": "What Playing Poker Taught Me", "url": "https://jshah.dev/poker/risk/psychology/2026/07/01/what-playing-poker-taught-me/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/poker/risk/psychology/2026/07/01/what-playing-poker-taught-me/index.md", "date": "2026-07-01T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Life", "tags": [ "Life", "Poker", "Risk", "Psychology" ], "description": "Lessons about risk, variance, and reading people from four years of playing poker seriously." }, { "title": "Just Talk to It", "url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/workflow/2026/06/25/just-talk-to-it/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/workflow/2026/06/25/just-talk-to-it/index.md", "date": "2026-06-25T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "AI", "tags": [ "AI", "Workflow", "Tools" ], "description": "Why I dictate my prompts to LLMs instead of typing them, and why the results are better." }, { "title": "Six Components That Make Interfaces Feel Alive", "url": "https://jshah.dev/design/2026/06/22/components-that-feel-alive/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/design/2026/06/22/components-that-feel-alive/index.md", "date": "2026-06-22T19:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Design", "tags": [ "Design", "UI", "UX", "Frontend", "Craft" ], "description": "Six live, interactive UI components I came across exploring popular UX libraries, and the small detail that makes each one feel good." }, { "title": "The AI Headcount Equation", "url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/2026/06/15/the-ai-headcount-equation/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/2026/06/15/the-ai-headcount-equation/index.md", "date": "2026-06-15T16:00:00.000Z", "topic": "AI", "tags": [ "AI", "Teams", "Strategy" ], "description": "A look at the real costs of adopting AI: the headcount cuts that fund it, the extra output you get back, and why the payoff is so hard to measure." }, { "title": "The Iterative Developer in the AI Era", "url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/developer-tools/workflow/process/2026/05/19/the-iterative-developer-in-the-ai-era/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/developer-tools/workflow/process/2026/05/19/the-iterative-developer-in-the-ai-era/index.md", "date": "2026-05-19T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "AI", "tags": [ "AI", "Tools", "Workflow", "Process", "Culture" ], "description": "Why shipping an imperfect first draft works so well with AI tooling, and what a company must do to support it." }, { "title": "My AI Dev Workflow", "url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/developer-tools/workflow/2026/04/07/my-ai-dev-workflow/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/ai/developer-tools/workflow/2026/04/07/my-ai-dev-workflow/index.md", "date": "2026-04-07T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "AI", "tags": [ "AI", "Tools", "Workflow" ], "description": "A layered AI development setup: Claude Code as the foundation, with custom skills, plugins, MCP servers, and multi-agent orchestration on top." }, { "title": "Collaboration vs Innovation", "url": "https://jshah.dev/business-strategy/collaboration/innovation/culture/2022/06/20/collaboration-vs-innovation/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/business-strategy/collaboration/innovation/culture/2022/06/20/collaboration-vs-innovation/index.md", "date": "2022-06-20T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Teams", "tags": [ "Teams", "Culture", "Strategy", "Process" ], "description": "Constant collaboration and breakthrough innovation pull against each other. How to get the best of both." }, { "title": "Early Learnings as a Staff Engineer", "url": "https://jshah.dev/staff-engineer/career/development/2021/11/28/early-learnings-as-a-staff-engineer/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/staff-engineer/career/development/2021/11/28/early-learnings-as-a-staff-engineer/index.md", "date": "2021-11-28T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Career", "tags": [ "Career", "Staff Engineer", "Leadership", "Teams" ], "description": "Observations from my first six months as a staff engineer, on alignment, influence, and impact." }, { "title": "The Zettelkasten Method", "url": "https://jshah.dev/note-taking/software/2021/10/09/the-zettelkasten-method/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/note-taking/software/2021/10/09/the-zettelkasten-method/index.md", "date": "2021-10-09T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Notes", "tags": [ "Note-taking", "Learning", "Tools" ], "description": "A note-taking method for retaining and recalling what you learn, and the software that makes it work." }, { "title": "Build for the User", "url": "https://jshah.dev/software/philosophy/application/design/2021/05/10/build-for-the-user/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/software/philosophy/application/design/2021/05/10/build-for-the-user/index.md", "date": "2021-05-10T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Craft", "tags": [ "Design", "Philosophy", "Craft", "UX" ], "description": "A short list of questions that keep your software focused on what actually works for the people using it." }, { "title": "Encapsulate for Easy Refactors", "url": "https://jshah.dev/ruby/rails/refactor/2020/12/14/encapsulate-for-easy-refactors/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/ruby/rails/refactor/2020/12/14/encapsulate-for-easy-refactors/index.md", "date": "2020-12-14T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Ruby", "tags": [ "Ruby", "Rails", "Refactoring", "Craft" ], "description": "How encapsulating logic today makes tomorrow's refactor easy, shown by extending a Rails role into its own model." }, { "title": "A Developer's Guide to Processes", "url": "https://jshah.dev/developer/guide/processes/threads/2020/08/24/a-developers-guide-to-processes/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/developer/guide/processes/threads/2020/08/24/a-developers-guide-to-processes/index.md", "date": "2020-08-24T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Systems", "tags": [ "Systems", "Processes", "Fundamentals", "Concurrency" ], "description": "What a process actually is: memory layout, states, the control block, process creation, and interprocess communication." }, { "title": "My Essential Mac Applications", "url": "https://jshah.dev/mac/applications/software/2020/06/08/my-essential-mac-applications/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/mac/applications/software/2020/06/08/my-essential-mac-applications/index.md", "date": "2020-06-08T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Tools", "tags": [ "Mac", "Tools" ], "description": "The Mac apps I rely on every day, grouped by productivity, entertainment, and development." }, { "title": "Thread Safe Connection Pool in Ruby", "url": "https://jshah.dev/rails/ruby/connection_pool/threads/2020/05/26/thread-safe-connection-pool-in-ruby/", "markdown_url": "https://jshah.dev/rails/ruby/connection_pool/threads/2020/05/26/thread-safe-connection-pool-in-ruby/index.md", "date": "2020-05-26T17:00:00.000Z", "topic": "Ruby", "tags": [ "Ruby", "Rails", "Concurrency", "Systems" ], "description": "Building a thread-safe connection pool with class instance variables, a Mutex, and the connection_pool gem." } ] }